September 11th, 2010 / 11:54 pm
Music
Adam Robinson
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:
Tags: that's some bs bso bro
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.
this is great
haha i walked by that tonight. i was wondering what was going on in there
awesome. conductor looks like a cross between norman mailer and phil donahue.
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.
this is great
haha i walked by that tonight. i was wondering what was going on in there
awesome. conductor looks like a cross between norman mailer and phil donahue.
More Argentinian accordion music by Astor Piazolla, used as the theme in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys
http://tinyurl.com/38bgdrx
Nice.
More Argentinian accordion music by Astor Piazolla, used as the theme in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys
http://tinyurl.com/38bgdrx
Nice.
thank you, adam.
thank you, adam.