On this day,
March 25, 1881
Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist
Béla Bartók
was born
in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary
present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
Béla Bartók is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.
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We listen to his
Piano Concerto No. 1
Yuja Wang, piano
Esa-Pekka Salonen
conducts the
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
I. Allegro moderato – Allegro
II. Andante – attacca
III. Allegro molto
&
Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz.113, BB.118
Janine Jansen, Noa Wildschut, Boris Brovtsyn [violin]
Amihai Grosz [viola]
Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Blendulf [cello]
Ying Lai Green [double bass]
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Molto adagio
III. Allegro assai
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Oannes has posted on Bartók birthday last year:
Béla Bartók [1881-1945]: Violin Concerto No 1
A sunrise a few days ago…
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Enjoy!
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Stay Safe!
Categories: Birthdays, MUSIC, Photography
Marina Kanavaki 
More of your photogenic sky…can’t see enough of these!
Awww, thank you, my dear Mary Jo! Mother Nature is very photogenic indeed! 😉🤗😘
Ahh, Marina, this was wonderful! Thank you!
Unless I heard a piece on Oannes blog,(which I may have… I’m still learning) I’d never heard of Bela before. At first I thought it was going to be a woman. Then when I saw the pic, I thought it was a woman dressed as a man. Women did that in the old days. It was one way they could be free.
Now, I am impressed with all of the musicians who study, practice and recreate classical music for us. It’s a wonderful thing!
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Well, it does sound like a woman’s name!!! 🤣😉😉
I’m happy you enjoyed it!
Sending you many hugs and love and nice warm rays of sun which came out today! 🤗❤🤗❤ ….okay and Hera slobbery kisses! 🐾😘😘😘😘😘
Oannes did post last year on his birthday, so you may have!
Happy 200 Marina! I would have posted it at EP but it was a bz day yesterday… 🙂 would love to hear your thoughts on it all! 😄
Ah, thanks, my friend! You mean about the celebrations on Greece’s independence war anniversary? To be honest, I felt really weird watching the army etc parading with masks on. I wonder what all those fighters/warriors during 1821 would have thought seeing that!
For me it’s a little weird thinking of Greece being “independent” for only 200 years when it’s been around for so long. But I’m not really up on the recent history. Canada will be 200 in 2067. Unless I live to be 105, I guess I’ll be watching from somewhere else!
I had to look that up, about ancient Greece and it seems there was frost and snow during winter: “In ancient Greek literature, the mention of snow or extreme cold appears in several prominent texts. Among them, Hesiod’s Works and Days (536–544), a didactic poem composed around 700 BC, offers some practical advice for keeping warm in the cold winter months…”
I think we’ve always had all 4 seasons with their characteristics. Other times milder and other harsher.
The other night we were watching a show about the arctic and the changing face of wildlife there…. white foxes, red foxes especially. The area where the researchers were walking was once a seabed! The upshot was that some species will have a hard time while others will benefit due to climate change. And although some might say that diversity will suffer, why would the supposed mechanism of mutation suddenly stop now?
I’m not a scientist but these questions passed thru my mind… 🙂
Logical questions….
Greenland was very very green once, as the name suggests. I’m not a scientist either.
ha ha
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Photo #1 – a small patch of clear blue in the otherwise ominous dark. A spot of yang embedded within the yin. ☯🐓
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That’s a wonderful way of looking at it!
Thank you, my dear 🐉 friend!
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Beautiful music…. Beautiful skies…. Yuja Wang WOW! 🙂
Yes, yes and yes!!!!!!!!!!!! …and many hugs your way! xoxoxoxo
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Love your cloud pictures… Bartok is not on my list of faves 😉
Well, I’m happy you enjoyed the clouds! 😉
As for Bartók… maybe a second try? 😉
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I did.
Not all bad, just not top of my list 😉
Oh, well… I’m glad you did listen! 😉
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Indeed. The type of music you have to be in the mood for. Maybe not ideal for work 😉
No question about it! 😉 xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Ms. Wang is quite impressive …. and she plays very well, too!
That she certainly is! She’s also a hell of a player though! Check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgw820VNW0w
Yamas!