July 10, 2005 at 2:38 PM

I'm in one of my practice slumps. I just don't sound good. I want my teacher! :-P

Oh, last night the local radio station played the MOST AWESOME VERSION of Night on Bald Mountain!!! Oliver Knussen conducting the Cleveland Orchestra playing Leopold Stokowski's arrangement. *drools*. To die for...to DIE for!
So I spent an hour on the net trying to find it on CD. I finally found it on Arkivmusic.com. Must...have...

Okay. I'm off to finish this Risk game I started last night with my family.
Say hello to the new world conquerer.

Natasham, magnam filam, laudbimus.

From Scott 68
Posted on July 10, 2005 at 2:58 PM

I love that piece, kind of creeps up on you

From Sydney Menees
Posted on July 10, 2005 at 3:44 PM

Once in orchestra we played Night on Bald Mountain. I have loved the piece ever since.

From Scott 68
Posted on July 11, 2005 at 12:51 PM

aah I failed to mention mussirgsky couldnt read music and was considered a musial illiterate!

Have you ever seen a drawing of him? he looks like a barbarian! No seriously, he must have been extremely eccentric and i can only imagine him playing you know night on bald mountain and pictures at an exhibition were written for solo piano and later orchesteated by ravel and rimsky korsakov

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on July 14, 2005 at 8:08 PM

Mussorgsky musically illiterate??? OMG!!! Thanks for your imput Scott...very interesting!
Pax,
~*Natasha*~

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