The hymn Be Still, My Soul takes its music from Finlandia by Jean Sibelius.
It has less grip on the incoming president’s attention than the future sovereignty of Greenland.
He talks right through the hymn.
As does Barack Obama.
Watch.
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Proper Distribution, which represents a medley of interesting labels, shut down its classical department today, maing Ginny Cooper and her two sidekicks redundant. Among the labels left high and dry are Carus, Prospero, Aurora, Eloquence, […]
This is Teodor Currentzis, the Putin collaborator, conducting Bruckner’s 9th last night in Hamburg. The orchestra was his own Utopia pickup band. The post Sleeveless is the new conductor trend appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Latvian musician Marta Sudraba, leader of the Kremerata Baltica cellos, died this weekend of an incurable disease, at the age of 50. Gidon Kremer has sent us this personal appreciation: Dearest…. Marta! You will […]
