4 posts tagged “classical music”

Labeque sisters are world class concert pianists performing over the world. Not only are they awesome on the piano skills, the way of their acting on the stage, wearing the dresses, and expressing their passions are more than attractive. And I love their smile, too!

 I don't want to be a classical music geek so I won't say much about their feat, but just let me attach two movies from You Tube. The first one is the final part of  'The carnival of animals' by Saint-Saens, and in the second one, Madonna (yes, THE Madonna) introduces Labeque sisters to her friends.

Hope you enjoy it!

I was not familiar with worldwide SNSs that much although I was a member of some Japanese SNSs. I noticed VOX had a useful function to show my outside accounts belonging to other social networking websites at the column 'ABOUT ME'. I currently have four outside accounts there and those accounts were selected from the list in the page 'Contact Info' of your VOX. There are lot of messaging, social networking and personal websites elsewhere to choose, which is set by default.

It was fun to explore new social networking websites I didn't know, and I have got one website looking good: 'Upcoming.org'. This is a social event calendar website bought up by Yahoo! in 2005. You will see tons of events over the world that can be organized on your list in the website.  It would be also good to skim through to check what events are coming soon around your area. You can even bring in an event that is not on the website yet to introduce others.

There seems  no major SNS for classical music lovers. Hope to be opened a special SNS for classical music.

Oops, no pictures today!

An annual program of Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is quite unique.

At first glance, you may well think it might be a paper book to read when you see the books stored on the shelves in Philharmonie which is the concert hall for Berlin Pilharmonic.

Turning pages, you will find the contents are wide-ranging: Preface by Music Director, Deutshe Bank, and Mayor of Berlin, About the orchestra, Overview of the concerts in the Philhamonie, Overview of the concerts in Chamber Music Hall, Focuses the season. Then finally, you will reach concert programs of the year that should be the first thing you want to know. The looking of this main category is absolutely beautiful. After that, other contents are still following: Education program, Orchestra Academy, Society of Friends of the Berliner Philharmonie,,,,,,,,.

Other pages are also nice.

I think it is unusual to issue such a 192-page heavy book for a program. But, this program is absolutely excellent with high quality!! (See? Good quality gets you trapped, again. haha.) It is worth going through trouble to carry it back home. I would even say the value of this yellow free program is as same as academic written materials that should be stored in a library. You will know how much Berlin values the classical music and puts effort in enlightening it for people when the program is taken a look at.

Not only the program booklet, but also its design of Philharmonie surprises me. You find it more rugged  than you thought at the website of Berliner Philharmoniker, and will know why the yellow color is used on the booklet.

This is the inside of Philharmonie. You can see that some of audiences are taking seats right back the orchestra having a ringside view of performances. They even could touch the musical instruments during a performance. And the next is the foyer of Philharmonie. It is interesting, isn't it?

Berlin, an amazing classical music city. I love it!

The master of a piano music composer. He succeeded in weaving his piano music pieces with the advantages of the piano as a musical instrument and his philosophy as an great artist. He was also an eye-opening pianist as well as a great composer, yet no books about method of playing the piano written by Chopin exist. He could not explain 'how to play the piano'.

Of course, he knew how to play the piano - better than anyone else. What he tried to leave in a book, if any, must have been something spiritual, invisible, and difficult to deal with by using languages. To him, the language was the sound of piano itself that would rather reach our heart directly when we get ready to listen to it carefully.

Chopin- one of my favorite composers. I am even on brisk of tears while I experience his music, and my heart is released and healed at the same time.