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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Musical Interlude

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Enjoy Mikhail Glinka's Overture from Rusland and Lyudmila (aka the theme music for the television series Mom). Notice that conductor Valery Gergiev appears to be using a toothpick instead of the traditional baton:


The above piece is based on Alexander Puskin's 1820 poem Ruslan and Ludmila, about which we read this a Wikipedia:
...It is written as an epic fairy tale consisting of a dedication (посвящение[1]), six "cantos" (песни), and an epilogue (эпилог). It tells the story of the abduction of Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, by an evil wizard and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan to find and rescue her....

[...]

Pushkin dedicates the poem to unnamed young beauties, the “queens of my soul” (души моей царицы dushi mojej tsaritsy), and states that his reward is the hope that some lovesick girl will read the poem in secret....
Read the rest HERE.

Ruslan Confronts the Head by Nikolai Ge

2 comments:

  1. Thats sure one complicated tale! The lack of a baton must have made it interesting for the orchestra members, having been in one.. Thanks, I had not heard of it before...

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  2. I saw little correlation between the toothpick-baton and the music... but it still sounded great.

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