derkreisel:

An interesting old 60 Minutes report on the Finns, and their relationship with Finnish tango.

My Environmental Management teacher tells me most Canadians are like that too. 

The Finnish male is very prone to self-pity, so we have a lot of tango songs, for instance, which are written by males…

What are the stories?

Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow…

#shostakovich #marathon #madness

newyorker:

Click-through to discover what David Denby considers to be the Ten Perfect Orchestral Recordings.

Love my garden…

classicalmusicconfessions:

I find Shostakovich to be so depressing that I can only stand to listen to him live.
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At Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, which just opened in Brooklyn, service is the star. The food, not so much.

She’s kind of a badass…

theblasianbandgeek:

Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 - Scherzo, Allegro

I listened to the entire concerto, but this seems to be my favorite movement :)

tightasaknot:

Shostakovich - Quartet 8, Mvmt 2