Tag / Coronavirus

by CIDU Bill

And one for Mahler!

jajizi: Before the lockdown started in earnest, I had a ticket to hear the Baltimore Symphony. The day of the concert, it appeared to be going on as scheduled, so I was cautiously intending to go. A few hours before I needed to leave, I got a robocall informing me that the concert was canceled.

They were going to play Mahler’s 3rd Symphony. Instead, they produced this virtual performance of the last few minutes of the piece. (For those not familiar with Mahler 3, these five or so minutes come at the end of a symphony that usually lasts more than an hour and a half.)

by CIDU Bill

Dance Your Way Into Sunday

Thanks to Mitch

For a lively wake-up music, I like the Lezhginka from Khachaturian’s ballet score “Gayaneh”. It is just as energetic as its probably more famous selection, the Saber Dance (which follows it in this clip).

BTW, the lezhginka or lezginka is the name not of just this particular piece but a music and dance style widespread in the Caucsus and Southeastern Europe. If you search the term, you can find many examples of both professional dance groups and informal parties dancing a lezhginka, to various music. Often these seem to be wedding parties, with a competitive tag-in aspect to the dancing among the guests. Here are two examples:

https://youtu.be/AZ0iu1oUbDo