tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.
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I do remember and it was similar to hearing Beethoven’s late quartets - you had to stop what you were doing, listen intently, and then seek out a live performance.
I need to find-d a quartet white those in the program!
Learning the piano and going through Mikrokosmos. What an amazing mixture of technique exercises with proper grown up music that makes you think about how it all works.
You just unlocked a tiny memory--when I was little my parents only allowed classical music in the house on Sundays. Sometimes my dad would sit and tell me the stories--core memory is Scheherezade & mom hating Petrushka--but they definitely had Bartok. I need to find out what it was and play it!
You're right!!! Loved Bartók my whole life and the quartets are yummy - but as I child I was entranced by his music for strings percussion and celesta 🎼🎵🎶🎻
Before ever hearing it actually, I lay asleep in a dorm room in Santa Fe and dreamt a chromatic fugue for string orchestra that built to a roll of tympani; then I woke to dying thunder. Later I heard the Bartók and thought Wait, I know that.
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I need to find-d a quartet white those in the program!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n11zi78Mf4kpgxFoOEdQduHinGhSSKykw&playnext=1&index=1
Wiki: "After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke away from his publisher there. "
as but a lowly cellist, Bartók & Dvořák were our special rewards after a long grueling day in the Pachelbel's Canon mines lol
Great advice!