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by Iosaf mac D .:. "the ipsiphi"
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Jump To Comment: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1but the more exclusive one, you social climber!!!
Schostakovitsh loved his Uncle Joe and refused to take the capitalist schilling. You toerags cannot rewrite that piece of history.
3 April 1922 - In the USSR, Stalin was appointed as general secretary of the Communist Party.
Iosaf,
why were'nt you at the Moonbase last night?
Very crafty that. Who would have thought. wu minging smelly & no doubt about it. How can you live if you don't have a CV?
I am in the middle 30's. & yes, I am classical musician, and my main instrument was / is organ, and yes that meant going up and down the dreary steeples of many different denominations and being the key-holder of many listed buildings. But I also play piano and viola da gamba (A rennaisance instrument) and the penny whistle and guitar, and spent years in London running from mixing kicking sessions of trance on the free party scene saturday night to playing the morning service for the 7 anglikhan widows who turned up, to ensure a continued good relationship with the parson and the use of the parish hall for squat resistance and other bla@ bla@ meetings. It was an arrangement which worked well, even if my eyes were out on stalks now and again. Playing hymns is never so difficult when everyone hears you but no-one sees you.
tell the wicked to go away now & leave us alone -
you have the hymn sheet, we'll get it right with a bit of practise.
here endeth the lesson.
pass the plate.
+*@.:.% = (€/$)
Yes, if I recall correctly he was some kind of an organist for the C.O.I (Irish branch of the Anglican church). Lived in London for a long time. Then for some inexplicable reason moved to Barcelona.
Won't be returning to Ireland in a hurry now that Mammy Harney has banned the 'shrooms ..
a mixed bag of anarchists and trots were in the foggy dew last night discussing shostakovich and your goodself. various aspects of music were discussed from which a fw questions arose.
1. are you an organist; in particular have you worked as a church organist.
2. how old are you? some (callow youths) thought you were ancient but i reckon you are in your 40s. which is it?
The scene painted as "The beheading of Holofernes by Judith" by
Donatello (1386 - 1466)
Sandro Botticelli, (1445 - 1510)
Andrea Mantegna, (1431 - 1506)
Giorgione (1477-1510)
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472- 1553)
Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653)
Horace Vernet (1789 - 1863)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
And In addition the story which appears in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's .:. lord of light (1756 1791)
opera "Betulia Liberata" now forgotten.
And "Holofernes" is athe name of a character in William Shakespeare's (1564 - 1616)
"Love's Labour's Lost".
is taken from the Book of Judith :-
["The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. It has been said that the book contains numerous historical anachronisms, which is why many scholars now accept it as unreliable history — it has been considered a parable or perhaps the first historical novel." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith ]
Please Note the popularity of the allegory at the turn of the 16th century, and the dominance of RC patroned (but known initiated radicals and malcontents) who depicted (almost all in the same way, a beautiful young Judit, shocked Holofernes and an un-indentified haggard woman holding the man down, but the most well known version by Caravaggio shows the old woman with a bag ready to bring the severed head back to the jewish camp).
See the brushstrokes and the implications? = Know thy enemy and their weakness & enter their tent.
google or use any search engine for images of "judit holofernes"
Learn from our Western Artistic Tradition, it will help you understand who you are and where you're going.
Thats why we keep it around.:..
"She's doing it for the granny"
:-)
Happy Birthday
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich!
Happy Anniversary
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
amnesty for all political prisoners!
(great line puts the wind up them in its simplicity just like "papers for everyone!")
Dmitir and friends enjoy a football match.
good old shosty. although his musical output was stunted and censored by stalin he produced some good stuff. my own favourite is his jazz album.
but the national concert hall is showing:
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Fri 12th May, 8:00pm
Mozart Overture Don Giovanni
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Anitti Siirala Piano
Gerhard Markson Conductor
In the Shadow of the Hammer and Sickle: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 - It was claimed that Stalin's customary toast during the 1940s was: 'Smash all of the intelligentsia. Death to all Russians!' How can you possibly portray a tyrant like that? Symphony No. 10 - a 'true' document of the age...
Fri 26th May, 8:00pm
Mozart Overture La Clemenza di Tito
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 ('The Year 1905')
Ioana Petcu-Colan Violin
Willaim Eddins Conductor
The Russian Bear: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 ('The Year 1905') - Oppressed peoples, the roar of engines, the clatter of tank-tracks, rockets and machine guns...
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