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Tchaikovsky
New York Times ^
| December 8, 2002
| DIRK OLIN
Posted on 10/24/2007 2:55:24 PM PDT by Borges
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To: MinuteGal
Did you read the 1995 Anthony Holden biography? It’s very good. Tchaikovsky was a warm soul but had serious issues!
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posted on
07/29/2008 8:36:15 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
No, I have not read the Holden biography. I'll check it out on Amazon after I post this. It would fit in well with my adult lifetime passion, the history and study of czarism in the 200 year period prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
Thanks for the tip.
Leni
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07/30/2008 5:51:48 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
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To: Borges
Aw, the 1995 Holden biography is out of print, according to Amazon's website. I'll have to probe some other sources (when I have some time, sheesh......).
Leni
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posted on
07/30/2008 6:43:35 AM PDT
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MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal
I got it from the library.
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07/30/2008 7:46:44 AM PDT
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Borges
To: MinuteGal
Also, the David Brown single edition book ‘The Man and his Music’ is still in print.
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07/30/2008 7:55:24 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
Thanks. I'm also going to try a musty, old second-hand book store near me that's owned by a musty, old gentleman. He has EVERYTHING. Problem is, I know it'll be an hour and a half before I can pull myself away from browsing the treaure trove.
Leni
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07/30/2008 8:04:58 AM PDT
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MinuteGal
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To: Publius; MinuteGal
Love this photo.
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posted on
08/06/2008 3:56:07 PM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
That is some photo. I just sat and sat and studied it for 5 minutes with the mind running hither and thither as to what I see.
I can't get enough of the photos you post of famous composers.....some, like the one of Chopin, I didn't even think photography was common yet. Please keep posting them.
By coincidence, as I'm typing this I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's "Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor" with Madame Olga Kern, pianist. Good freeping music!
Leni
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posted on
08/06/2008 7:28:37 PM PDT
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MinuteGal
(Stay Home in Nov & Vote for Obama-ization, More Regulation, Taxation, Litigation and Ginsburgization)
To: MinuteGal
That photo was taken in the last year of his life. He looks a lot older than 53.
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08/07/2008 8:38:35 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
Yes, he certainly does look older than 53.....and dreadfully unhappy, suspicious and hurt, also. I'm almost relieved he was able to produce such delightful music such as to be found in the Nutcracker and other works given what I imagine was a rather short and difficult personal life.
Leni
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08/07/2008 8:54:22 AM PDT
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MinuteGal
(Stay Home in Nov & Vote for Obama-ization, More Regulation, Taxation, Litigation and Ginsburgization)
To: MinuteGal
The Nutcracker was premiered less than a year before that photo was taken!
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08/07/2008 8:57:53 AM PDT
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Borges
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