September 11th, 2010 / 11:54 pm
Music

What the hell is the world coming to?

I went to a gala of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s tonight, where they performed an exceptional program. I never saw a room of Beethoven-lovers so enchanted by fucked up avant-garde prepared shit. The whole program was amazing. A soprano, mic-less, hummed an aria, wtf. Some world-renown violinist played what I took to be a broken violin. And the first piece struck me as a cooler Philip Glass thing. It was the “Danza Final” by Alberto Ginastera. Never heard of him. I looked it up on Youtube and found it, but this one is done by those things, the squeeze box. Get a load:

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14 Comments

  1. Gaby

      In Argentina during the 1940’s the “squeeze box” surged in popularity. The ballet suite Estancia was written in 1941 (coincidentally by an Argentinian composer!); though not originally intended for an ensemble of accordions, the work can simply be seen as an homage.

  2. karl taro greenfeld

      this is great

  3. Jackie Wang

      haha i walked by that tonight. i was wondering what was going on in there

  4. jonny ross

      awesome. conductor looks like a cross between norman mailer and phil donahue.

  5. Gaby

      In Argentina during the 1940’s the “squeeze box” surged in popularity. The ballet suite Estancia was written in 1941 (coincidentally by an Argentinian composer!); though not originally intended for an ensemble of accordions, the work can simply be seen as an homage.

  6. karl taro greenfeld

      this is great

  7. Jackie Wang

      haha i walked by that tonight. i was wondering what was going on in there

  8. jonny ross

      awesome. conductor looks like a cross between norman mailer and phil donahue.

  9. Rebecca Loudon
  10. scott mcclanahan

      Nice.

  11. Rebecca Loudon
  12. scott mcclanahan

      Nice.

  13. Lily Hoang

      thank you, adam.

  14. lily hoang

      thank you, adam.