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Myth_inc5 февраля 2026 г.The history of classical music is littered with broken marriages and tempestuous love affairs, but Richard Strauss was a composer who bucked the trend, remaining happily married to his wife Pauline for fifty-six years. It may be coincidence, but Strauss also happened to write many operas that revolve around strong female protagonists.
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KontrabasFilarius19 февраля 2023 г.А чего вы хотите? Середина февраля, остаётся утешаться только Листом.496- Myth_inc27 января 2026 г.
Oh, happy day, this one, when into the world came Mozart. It’s a clichéd word, genius, and so hard to quantify, but I think we can all agree that this guy was the real deal: a child prodigy, probably the most gifted writer of melody there has ever been or will ever be, a composer of music so profound, so wise, so witty and tender and empathetic and human that its being in the world simply makes things a little bit better.
316 - Myth_inc18 января 2026 г.
Look, sometimes what we just really need in the middle of January is music that feels like a large glass of red wine.
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You’re welcome.323 - Myth_inc17 января 2026 г.
Puccini, by the way, was a bit of a hit factory, writing what we might think of as the pop songs of his day. His influence goes far beyond the operatic world. In 1920, ‘the world’s greatest entertainer’ Al Jolson wrote a song called ‘Avalon’. He was promptly sued by Giulio Ricordi, Puccini’s publisher, who pointed out that the melody had been lifted straight from ‘E lucevan le stelle’. Awkward. Puccini’s team was awarded $25,000 in damages and all future royalties for the song . . .
312 - Myth_inc9 января 2026 г.Читать далее
Here’s a story about the power of music.
It’s January 1942. A single score of Verdi’s Requiem has been smuggled into the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt (Terezín) in what is now the Czech Republic. Against impossible odds, a group of defiant Jewish prisoners, led by the former conductor and composer Rafael Schächter, decide to mount a performance of this timeless work in an act that survivors will later describe as an act of spiritual resistance.
Inside the camp, 150 prisoners come together, working with that single tattered score, to sing this timeless masterpiece. Prisoner Edgar Krasa, who survived, will later recall that the performance of the Verdi Requiem in Theresienstadt allowed the performers to ‘immerse themselves in a world of art and happiness, forget the reality of ghetto life and deportations, and gather strength to better cope with the loss of freedom’.
Verdi’s Requiem was performed in the camp no fewer than sixteen times. But as increasing numbers of prisoners began to be deported to Auschwitz and its gas chambers, the camp choir’s numbers began to drop – and drop – until eventually there remained just a handful of prisoners singing the Verdi Requiem to one another.
But still, they sang.
‘We will sing to the Nazis’, says Schächter, who died in Auschwitz in 1945, ‘what we cannot say.’322 
Feya_F_Tapkah20 октября 2021 г.«Нет ничего приятнее радости созидания, потому что именно в это время ты можешь самозабвенно жить одним звуком.»
3146- Myth_inc6 февраля 2026 г.
When opera gets it right, nothing comes close for emotional impact. Puccini invariably gets it right.
27 - Myth_inc6 февраля 2026 г.Читать далее
This should give hope to anyone currently holding down an unrewarding job or two while secretly harbouring dreams of artistic greatness.
Philip Glass worked for many years as a taxi-driver and plumber in New York before finally being able to give up the day job(s) and concentrate wholly on his music. He’s gone on to become one of the most influential and boundary-hopping creative artists of any genre, credited with the founding of minimalism in music – although he has always resisted the term, preferring the description ‘music with repetitive structures’.25
