mercurialbliss said:I prefer the Slavonic Dances or Cello Concerto in B minor.
mercurialbliss said:I prefer the Slavonic Dances or Cello Concerto in B minor.
DC_DEEP said:mercurialbliss and senor rubirosa, you both have to go right to the cliche, don't you? What about Dvorak's Humoresque?
Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???senor rubirosa said:Very beautiful -- and nothing in history more cliched.
And you know that! *slap, slap, slap*
BTW, DC_DEEP, is that pic in your profile you?
DC_DEEP said:Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???
DC_DEEP said:And yes, the pic my gallery is indeed me, in my USMC dress blues.
DC_DEEP said:Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???
DC_DEEP said:Why, you uncultured MONSTER!!! I'll beat you over the head with a cookie!
Shostakovich is great! I love Kalinikov, too (even though I've seen about 12 different variant spellings of his name.) Armenian Dances (parts I and II, but especially part I) is one of the most moving and exciting pieces I've ever played... I just never did get a lot of Bartok's stuff, though. I know it was folk-based, and a lot of it was pedagogical, but I just never really did get it.mindseye said:Ah, cookies I've heard of. . .
Actually, my area of research for my music degree was Eastern European music of the turn of the century -- Dvorak, Scriabin, Bartok, Kodaly, etc. (My thesis, however, was on Shostakovich's Fifth.) I got a lot of "who?" responses from people back then.