+ Extras from me & other blogs
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Don’t blink. Don’t even blink.
I love pulling up at red lights, windows down, opera turned up!
Submitted & created by Callie (via email)
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Classical Night on Dancing with the Stars 2012
Interesting choice of music picked for a show catering to an American audience [Wikipedia]
I’m so happy that my mother let me listen to classical music when I was in elementary school. I really don’t know what would have become of me if she didn’t.
Submitted by freedomnotincluded
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My ideal date would be going to the symphony.
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I find it funny when a vocalist of non-classical music tries to tell me that the art of opera is easier than what they are doing. I then show them up in their own genre and I ask them to sing some opera. They can never back up their smack.
Submitted by primohomo92
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Conduct, play and step inside a virtual Philharmonia Orchestra, joining 132 musicians and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, performing one of the most spectacular pieces of music ever written. Universe of Sound is an extraordinary free interactive digital installation, allowing you to explore an orchestra from the inside out as they perform Holst’s The Planets. Using giant visual displays, touch screens, unconventional projecting surfaces, movement-based interaction and planetarium-style projections, you can take part as musicians, conductors, arrangers and composers.
Universe of Sound
Science Museum in London; May 23 - July 8, 2012; FREE ADMISSION
Shirtless Opera Singers
Be-tee-dubs (btw): I found a blog devoted to “The Hottest Opera Stars Shirtless.” Thought y’all should know ;)
Serious classical music posts will return … soon.
Keaton Music Typewriter
When The Conductor Tells A Joke
THE ORCHESTRA’S ALL LIKE
AND NORMAL PEOPLE ARE ALL LIKE “THAT WASN’T EVEN FUNNY”
This is hilarious, and I’d imagine it’s even funnier to non-musicians. Also, GIF’s are my new life-blood.
“You’ll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival — of her body, from a double lung transplant — and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing. A powerful story from TEDMED 2010.”
