On music, madness and Baltic trains
mainThe cellist Margarita Balanas has made an absorbing first film of love and loss, based on a solo work by the composer Peteris Vasks.
You watch it here first.
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Well, I’m sure it’s about something , but I am totally at a loss to explain what it is
Rubbish video. Pretentious.
“Apart from being an international soloist and chamber musician, Margarita is also a painter and actor”
Oh dear, so we have to look forward to pretentious paintings as well ?
Somebody learned a new word
Beautiful story
WTF is this crap all about?
Isn’t it bad enough to have PR Bollocks constantly from the mass media, without being bombarded with more mediocre toilet from the Baltic states??
First we are told Latvia is the new musical “powerhouse”, Estonia for some reason is some sort of Ethno dream nirvana because of one minor composer, a Steinway clone factory, and Mravinski spending his holidays there.
Next thing will be the turn of Lithuania.
We didn’t need this junk from Heifetz or any of the great musicians of the past.
Can you imagine Slava or Piatigorsky or Tortelier doing this kind of stuff?
Such annoying rubbish brings ridicule on musicians not respect.
Sure… https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-news/cecilia-bartoli-farinelli/
That must be the same David Stern that went around the world claiming I was blatently dishonest,- out to sell recordings of famous artists behind their backs, without having a single shred of evidence to back up such diffamatory comments….
Funny that!
World’s now a small place.
It never occured to you, back stabbing isn’t OK or is it a New York norm?
It takes guts, to tell such stuff to someone’s face, doesn’t it?
No, it’s not him, you can choose whatever name you want here, dear dinosaur!