My high school’s symphonic band and orchestra once came together to perform Leonard Berstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story”. Playing the drumset part was genuinely some of the most fun I’ve ever had. Especially the tom-toms from “Mambo” and the hi-hat + jazz drum improv from “Cool”.
https://youtu.be/srb2EyvTSGw
Discovered George Enescu years ago when I played his Konzertstück, a piece for piano and viola.
Never knew about any of his piano sonatas.
This one sounds like Bach on steroids.
Discovered only on /spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zhtSyZnJ0bIUU7c4jKmOH?si=cdfd8927650a4a2b
This year I want to get back into going to the Opera at least a couple times. Verdi is high on my list.
https://youtu.be/9xZm81Xy8Xc?si=lMMPIjXR_CncvS3H
Christmas time is Bach time and this aria from the Weihnachtsoratorium has been stuck in my head for the past days.
https://youtu.be/a2yFh3JrumA?si=WMlCfABgnj7bkav3
This is the spirit crypto could have (again) if we weren't so eager to become just another sector of hyperfinancialization eating the soul.
Egmont is a play about rising against oppressors, a very Beethoven theme to treat.
https://youtu.be/AoAlouGwS_4?si=xcOstW7O8d9nhjxT
If you never stop looking, you never stop finding new pieces.. for example, last weekend I learned that Denmark had a bunch of amazing romantic composers, like this one
https://youtu.be/Y0GRdCXHBl8?si=gBTSPB1Cx-X0QqDI
RELIQUIE (2023)
A concert film of Franz Schubert's unfinished Sonata in C major 'Reliquie' D. 840 with a completion written by modernist composer Ernst Krenek
conceived and performed by
Gavin Gamboa
Co-Produced and Directed by Daniel Anderson
https://gavart.ist/#Reliquie