The Hollywood illusionist made a film of himself meeting, supposedly, the composer of Peter and the Wolf.
You don’t have to look too closely to see that it’s not Prokofiev but a body double.
He was a composer called Ingolf Dahl, a Stravinsky assistant well known in Hollywood.
This is what they did before they hd AI.
Worth watching, nonetheless.
The post When Walt Disney faked a meeting with Prokofiev appeared first on Slippedisc.
Friends have reported the sudden passing of Pavel (Pasha) Karmanov, an eclectic Moscow composer who also played in a rock group. The group’s name, Vezhlivy Otkaz, means polite refusal, signifying mild dissent. Pasha was 55. […]
Just in from the BBC Proms: Very sadly, Sir András Schiff has broken his leg and has had to withdraw from this Prom. Rather than cancelling this concert we wanted to offer an alternative. We […]
The Concertgebouw’s Mahler festival has its first jump-in. Sakari Oramo has been recruited to conduct the Adagio from the 10th symphony, followed by Das Lied von der Erde, on May 18, the anniversary of Mahler’s […]
