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Keeping Score | Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

https://youtu.be/9tABgYM0Gsw The Making of a Performance, is an engrossing documentary that demystifies how a performance of a great piece of classical music is created. It is a viewer’s “behind-the-scenes” pass to witness firsthand how a performance unfolds and the preparation it takes to play this music. Along the way, MTT explores the symphony’s four movements,…… Continue reading Keeping Score | Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Snow Plow… (B.C.)

https://youtu.be/SzVJyQ4Jsk4 The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad demonstrates how the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge cleared snow from their tracks during the winter months. In early 2020 BC (Before COVID) the Cumbres and Toltec ran Rotary OY on a photographer’s special from Chama, New Mexico, to the 10,000 foot summit of Cumbres Pass in Colorado. Two…… Continue reading Snow Plow… (B.C.)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no. 3 in D minor BWV 527

https://youtu.be/J6jl0_QVX5c Havinga | Netherlands Bach SocietyThe opening of this sonata in D minor, performed by Matthias Havinga for All of Bach, has an uncertain and emphatically andante sound. To the ears of seventeenth and eighteenth-century musicologists the key of D minor represented melancholy, devotion, solemnity and seriousness. Following this tentative start, Bach launches into experimentation,…… Continue reading Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no. 3 in D minor BWV 527