https://youtu.be/Q3hBLv-HLEc?si=b9pWz2dDsWn1fFOj Based on the novel “Roadside Picnic” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The Zone that arose on Earth for unknown reasons attracts attention with inexplicable phenomena that occur there. A rumor has spread that in the center of the Zone there is something that gives a person everything he wants. But staying in the Zone…… Continue reading Stalker | Andrey Tarkovsky
Month: February 2024
Alice | Jan Švankmajer
https://youtu.be/tK_l74cSPGY?si=VL2nLaEQaXAaFXOq Jan Švankmajer) Original Czech Language Version with English Subtitles, Remastered.Alice is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means “Something from Alice”. It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s first Alice book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), about a…… Continue reading Alice | Jan Švankmajer
Rossini Il Barbiere Di Siviglia – Metropolitan Opera
Rossini Il Barbiere Di SivigliaBattle + Nucci + Blake + Dara + Furlanetto 1988 Metropolitan Opera
Specific Type Humour of Classical Musicians…
https://youtu.be/3NtMbQGn31c?si=lepqvHb-rFyiy3hg The Best of Victor Borge: Act One & Two (1990) https://youtu.be/u2Hc5F4hJ60?si=n1c3mJU3R4H8ZeAb P.D.Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! is a live performance celebrating 40 years of P.D.Q. Bach. This performance features Professor Peter Schickele with Orchestra X conducted by Peter Jacob
Rimutaka Incline – The Worlds Last Fell Engine Railway
https://youtu.be/HRlATlojnD4?si=N1kqasfUZGDWzLMe In this unique programme, produced by the international award-winning Memory Line Team, a surviving fitter, driver and fireman return to the abandoned Incline to relive takes of agony and triumph of the Fell engines battling the mountain range. Also featured is the world’s only remaining Fell loco. H199, shown in its restored splendor in…… Continue reading Rimutaka Incline – The Worlds Last Fell Engine Railway
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
https://youtu.be/QpXLYG00T3c?si=W6NM6X6zL6zvN189 Messa da Requiem Martina Arroyo(S) Josephine Veasey(MS) Plácido Domingo(T) Ruggero Raimondi(B) London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Leonard Bernstein 25. Feb. 1970 St. Paul’s Cathedral, London……
Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata
https://youtu.be/CFu6I1BpkWo?si=mVBWDuneZZ18ZoCP La Traviata – Teatro Real.Verdi’s opera ‘La traviata’ directed by David McVicar and conducted by Renato Palumbo at Teatro Real Madrid in 2015, with Ermonela Jaho and Alfredo Germont. Verdi’s masterpiece is the tragic story of a high-society courtesan who renounces life itself to protect the honour of her lover, demonstrating with her self-sacrifice…… Continue reading Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata
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C19 unpaked…
https://youtu.be/4Iqa4CoMciU?si=JLDfaomLUZrHspta Ros Nealon-Cook, a psychologist from Australia, had her license suspended for sounding the alarm about the harms to children from government pandemic policy. Ros has joined forces with a number health professionals from around the world who were similarly censored and silenced. Together, they have created The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration to raise awareness…… Continue reading C19 unpaked…
J. S. Bach: Chaconne
https://youtu.be/h-tsbumcyVc?si=joW0yWj_nqZewTU3 Transcribed by Karl Scheit,supplemented by Maya Kimura koto…. https://youtu.be/ngjEVKxQCWs?si=PzZtWaHayiyj_7PM n 1999, Hahn said that she played Bach more than any other composer and that she had played solo Bach pieces every day since she was eight. “Bach is, for me, the touchstone that keeps my playing honest. Keeping the intonation pure in double stops,…… Continue reading J. S. Bach: Chaconne