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Young Master Smeet.
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November 25, 2022 at 4:18 am #236870
alanjjohnstone
KeymasterYour Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan
November 25, 2022 at 5:26 am #236871twc
ParticipantRussia and the Rebel
Russian music about rebels is remembered most for its ecstatic love themes …
The Ballad of Stenka Razin. Poem by Dmitry Sadovnikiv (1883), music [trad?]
Stenka Razin (1630-71, leader of the Cossack revolt against the Boyars [feudal lords], sacrifices his young bride in the Volga River to placate his grumbling crew, and arouses them to carouse “where beauty lies”.
“Volga, Volga, Mother Volga, Make this lovely girl a grave!”
Stenka Razin — Russian Red Army Choir
(2) Spartacus. Ballet, Aram Khachaturian (1954)
Gladiator slave Spartacus (103-71 BCE) leads a slave revolt against Rome and frees slave girl Phrygia. They celebrate their short-lived liberty in the famous Adagio before Spartacus is captured and summarily executed by the Romans.
The Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia — Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, cond. Azim Karimov.
The great climax starts around 5:30.
November 25, 2022 at 5:50 am #236873twc
ParticipantI Want to Go Back to Dixie
Tom Lehrer’s take on the same theme as the Chad Mitchell Trio.
November 26, 2022 at 1:09 am #236905paula.mcewan
ModeratorBrilliant!
November 26, 2022 at 1:10 am #236906paula.mcewan
ModeratorBrilliant, thank you.
November 26, 2022 at 1:23 am #236907paula.mcewan
ModeratorThis was a wonderful moment in the film. I was privileged to attend Marriage of Figaro in the theatre in Prague where apparently Mozart was also present, in 19Canteen. I agree that it was subversive, the whole point of the opera is to point out the idiocy of the masters and to relate us with the servants. Plus it had the greatest opera songs of all time.
November 26, 2022 at 1:26 am #236908paula.mcewan
ModeratorAbsolutely wonderful, thank you for posting!
November 26, 2022 at 1:34 am #236909paula.mcewan
ModeratorI’ve sometimes wondered what music I would select, if I had to go on BBC’s Desert Island Discs. I wonder no longer! My comrades on this forum have given me the complete playlist. Thank you one and all!
November 26, 2022 at 1:45 am #236910alanjjohnstone
KeymasterAnother Bob Dylan for you Paula, particularly poignant at this time of the Ukraine War
Plus Donovan’s Universal Soldier
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November 26, 2022 at 2:19 am #236913twc
ParticipantThe Elements. Tom Lehrer
Yep. He was also a scientist mathematician; which enhances his satire on NASA’s rocket man Wernher von Braun.
Off-topic scientific wit from that Copenhagen 1967 performance.
Wait for the Greek periodic table at the end.
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November 26, 2022 at 2:49 am #236915paula.mcewan
ModeratorNovember 26, 2022 at 4:25 am #236919twc
ParticipantNovember 26, 2022 at 7:24 am #236922Lizzie45
BlockedSaw this Pink Floyd tribute band earlier this week. Brilliant!
Sorry! Wrong thread. Mind you, the full set is as long as a film!
November 26, 2022 at 7:35 am #236923twc
ParticipantPolitical Prisoners’ Chorus Ludwig van Beethoven (1805)
Beethoven’s opera Fidelio is based on a French play of the Reign of Terror, that took place just a decade earlier, and it contains a scene in which the broken political prisoners are temporarily let out into the yard.
Staged opera operates without the visual resources of cinema, and modern productions give the director free reign to improvise with the setting, but however he represents or misrepresents it on stage this harrowing basis of the Shawshank scene remains indescribably moving.
It was on the eve of the 1849 Dresden uprising, after a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony that Mikhail Bakunin approached the conductor Richard Wagner and passionately declared “if everything else goes down in the revolution, we must see to it that Beethoven’s 9th survives”.
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November 26, 2022 at 12:06 pm #236928twc
ParticipantImagine John Lennon
And, of course …
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