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Originally Posted by Aperion
Here's one I found recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGA6bpscj8
It's Stravinsky conducting part of his Firebird suite at age 82 in 1965. If those chords at the end don't do something for ya - you're not alive!
Oh, BTW the piece in Platoon you're probably referring to is Adagio for Strings by Barber. |
Holy smokes, very nice! Stravinsky is a musical hero of mine.
I was fortunate enough to catch The Rite of Spring when they performed it at the symphony here. They even started it off with a recreation of its premier, complete with excerpts of the Ballets Russes choreography, with patrons screaming and running and breaking things and lights were going on and off and chaos was everywhere. Then they played the piece. It was, more or less, the most enthralling 30 or so minutes of my life. (I don't know what that says about my life, though :D )
Anyway, nice to see a new member with some classical tastes.