Friday, August 14, 2009

Beverly Sills on the Muppets



My all-time favorite Muppet sketch.

Victor Borge: What does a conductor do?

The Stoned Guest

Bryn Terfel, Rene Pape and Thomas Quasthoff in the penultimate scene of Don Giovanni.



Three giants doing opera's most famous scene in a one-off concert at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. The scandalously underrated Manfred Honeck conducts the Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

Mambo from West Side Story.



The moment that changed what classical music was about.

Thursday, August 13, 2009



The duet that made them famous...Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia. Getting serious fiddle envy.

Amadeus in 5 seconds



From Guy with the Glasses website.

Yo-Yo Ma and The Honkers



Classic Sesame Street.

Banjo Playing During Brain Surgery



Famed bluegrass player Eddie Adcock had brain surgery that corrected a tremor that inhibited his ability to play. This required him to play the banjo during surgery.

The Magic Flute - Marionettes



From the Salzburg Marionettentheater's production of The Magic Flute

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

What Mel Gibson's Now Up To



Mel's pregnant gf's new music video. Directed by the auteur himself. Sometimes it's good to be a Jew.

Taraf de Haidouks + Kocani Orchestra + Tarik Tuxsiszoglu

Gypsy Superband.

Igudesman & Joo

As they deserve an entire blog devoted purely to them.



...This is not making me want to drop my entire life to become a Gypsy Fiddler any less.

Gidon Kremer Plays I Will Survive!

With Lgudesman and Joo and the Kremerata Baltica.

Mel Brooks: Hitler Rap



Promotional video for his remake of To Be or Not To Be in 1983.

Messiaen and the Birds



The weirdest genius of 20th century music in all his plumage.