If I'm not mistaken, Walt Disney's first color and sound cartoon was Flowers and Trees, one of his many imaginative and innovative “Silly Symphonies”. It combined symphonic music with the anthropomorphic actions of flowers and trees in lush color and started a trend that has continued unabated to this day. About seven decades later, combining […]
April 22 and 24, 2005I went to two superb concerts last weekend, concerts which perhaps would have deserved greater attention than they received. The musicians of the National Philharmonic Orchestra gave a chamber music concerts and a concerts for children. Sadly I was only able to attend the final event of the three concert series […]
April 22 and 24, 2005I went to two superb concerts last weekend, concerts which perhaps would have deserved greater attention than they received. The musicians of the National Philharmonic Orchestra gave a chamber music concerts and a concerts for children. Sadly I was only able to attend the final event of the three concert series […]
The Hungarian National Philharmonic finished off its regular concert season with a bang on May 26 with an exciting performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2. Maestro Zoltán Kocsis conducted. Brahms is, more often than not, treated to a rather lugubrious interpretation, with draggy tempos and thick orchestral colors. Not with Kocsis. He stuck to his […]
April 22 and 24, 2005I went to two superb concerts last weekend, concerts which perhaps would have deserved greater attention than they received. The musicians of the National Philharmonic Orchestra gave a chamber music concerts and a concerts for children. Sadly I was only able to attend the final event of the three concert series […]
