by Jeannette Fang | Sep 26, 2016 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, music history
Pictures at an Exhibition is probably Mussorgsky’s most popular work, though he never had the satisfaction of knowing that. Plagued by severe depression, the composer basically drank himself to an early death at age 42, leaving many works unrevised for...
by Jeannette Fang | Sep 18, 2016 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, music history
Before I start waxing poetic on Schubert’s great E-flat piano trio, I wanted to give you a quote from Stanley Kubrick, who had used this piece in scenes of Barry Lyndon to express what dialogue could not convey. “Barry and Lady Lyndon sit at the gaming...
by Jeannette Fang | Sep 5, 2016 | concert recap, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, summer 2016
I always have a hard time starting these posts because there are about 5000 thoughts and feelings buzzing around my head after a concert, and nearly zero that can really be condensed into a comprehensible sentence. This is doubly so for the last concert of the...
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