From a poster on YouTube: This excerpt you can find at the minute 1hour::07minute in the film “LA BELLE VERTE”, a 1996 French film directed by Coline Serreau and released by Les Films Alain Sarde and TF1 Films Production. Screenplay and original music score written by Coline Serreau. Produced by Alain Sarde. Cinematography by Robert
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What a genius Dudley Moore was, and what a shame that we lost him much too soon. A friend pointed me to this classic video of Moore doing two parodies of Britten and Weill, and then I discovered a brilliant version of Schubert’s Erlkönig, too… and then this parody of a Beethoven piano sonata,
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Tonight we had one of those rare moments that is hilarious and will love on in viola section lore for years to come. At the dress rehearsal this morning, Joël, our principal, decided to have some fun with a melody in the Tchaikovsky First Symphony that is played by the viola section. It’s a rousing,
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Thanks to Opera Chic for finding this and sharing it with the world. Go USA!!
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Did you know it is Tchaikovsky’s birthday today? I didn’t, but when you go to the Google.com homepage, this is what you see:
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Badbeard (aka Justin Kagan, of Badbeard’s Microroastery and Portland Cello Project, and every other cello-included gig in town) has a connection to the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star‘s upcoming season: his cousin has been selected as a finalist who will appear on the show! Read all about it here. Not surprisingly, she’s a coffee
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With the local news all a-buzz about the red-tailed hawk chicks hatching in downtown Portland, I thought that a bird of another feather might appreciate a moment in the limited lime-light that this blog is able to provide. I present to you “Bird”, a peacock who lives near the Badbeard Roastery off of Johnson Creek
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This amazing dessert (a viola and two eggs) is made of tons of hazelnut mousse and puff pastry, with some delicious chocolate topping to complete the effect. It’s a viola-tastic (viola-tasty?) creation engineered (imagineered?) by Badbeard himself (with upcoming Badbeard action figures) Justin Kagan. What an amazing dessert from an amazing guy!!
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Anyone else see the resemblance between John Cage and William H. Macy?
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Something to make you smile. icanhascheezburger, via mahlerowesmetenbucks
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Violist Sam Bergman, of the Minnesota Orchestra (and fellow BBB – Bratsche Blogging Brother) made this arrangement of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man for a Minnesota Orchestra function. I kind of like it – it might be something we should do here in Oregon…
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