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(poco) Sforzando

April 03, 2024, 07:33:46 AM
I'm sure we have a Shostakovich topic here somewhere, but I can't find it. But you all have to enjoy and marvel at this brilliant YouTube by an undergraduate composition major at McGill University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yoxJ62RnDM
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Karl Henning

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April 03, 2024, 08:52:49 AM Last Edit: April 03, 2024, 10:05:07 AM by Karl Henning
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on April 03, 2024, 07:33:46 AMI'm sure we have a Shostakovich topic here somewhere, but I can't find it. But you all have to enjoy and marvel at this brilliant YouTube by an undergraduate composition major at McGill University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yoxJ62RnDM
Stunning! And clocking under four minutes! As anime Greg would say: Ubloobideega!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Cato

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April 03, 2024, 09:54:56 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on April 03, 2024, 08:52:49 AMStunning! And clocking under fout minutes! As anima Greg would say: Ubloobideega!


A triple AMEN!!!  😇😇😇

Classical Music is not completely moribund with such young people around!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

(poco) Sforzando

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April 03, 2024, 11:35:14 AM
In some ways even more brilliant, because of the greater tempo fluctuations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEC2QIeWaNs
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Pohjolas Daughter

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April 03, 2024, 11:43:58 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on April 03, 2024, 07:33:46 AMI'm sure we have a Shostakovich topic here somewhere, but I can't find it. But you all have to enjoy and marvel at this brilliant YouTube by an undergraduate composition major at McGill University:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yoxJ62RnDM
It's called "Dmitri's Dacha".
Pohjolas Daughter

DavidW

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April 03, 2024, 11:47:20 AM
That is a lot of work to pull off, expertise on multiple instruments, and very careful editing... hats off to that musician!

lunar22

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April 03, 2024, 11:53:10 AM
17 instruments! Nae bad...

(poco) Sforzando

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April 03, 2024, 01:15:16 PM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on April 03, 2024, 11:43:58 AMIt's called "Dmitri's Dacha".


They couldn't say his last name?  ;D
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Pohjolas Daughter

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April 03, 2024, 01:16:46 PM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on April 03, 2024, 01:15:16 PMThey couldn't say his last name?  ;D
Talk to Karl!  ;) Maybe he could adjust the title?  :)



Pohjolas Daughter

Karl Henning

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April 03, 2024, 01:43:55 PM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on April 03, 2024, 01:15:16 PMThey couldn't say his last name?  ;D
I elected not to, though I appreciate your quarrel ;)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Szykneij

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April 03, 2024, 03:22:51 PM
Quote from: lunar22 on April 03, 2024, 11:53:10 AM17 instruments! Nae bad...

... including bassoon and French horn !!!
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige
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