Classical Ping
Very little in life can compare to experiencing his magnificent violin concerto live, performed by a superb soloist.
I like his ballet works and symphonies. His Piano Concerto #1 is good but I prefer Mozart and Rachmaninoff.
Tchaikovsky requested unboiled water and drank it anyway, despite the fact that he had been warned not to do so: the next day, he started displaying symptoms of cholera. The circumstances of his death, however, gave way to a wide array of theories: while the “tainted water theory” has a robust following, Biographer Anthony Holden postulates Tchaikovsky might have contracted cholera by less-than-hygienic sexual practices he had been engaging in with male prostitutes in St. Petersburg, and that drinking unboiled water was just a means to conceal the real way he had become infected.
So it appears likely that Tchaikovsky contacted the Rock Hudson disease before Rock Hudson made it famous.
Tchaikovsky was still a musical genius with great imagination. Connecting an organ designed to discharge urine and semen with a sewage discharge pipe just isn't a very bright thing to do.
FIRE THE CANNONS!!!....................
Wow, what was with the guy on WQXR today, he talked about it being Brahms birthday but not Tchaikovsky, my personal fave.
Happy birthday to both you dead white guys!
He was a genius.