There is a French expression “Violon d’Ingres“. And now I know that it exists a piano d’Ingres too! May be some of you have seen the Stamaty family portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Anything surprising here? Yes, the piano! Isn’t it astonishing that Ingres, a music lover and a violin player himself, gives the piano a […]
Those who know and love Lewis Caroll’s “Alice in Wonderland “ and “Through the Looking-Glass”, will certainly remember the “Jabberwocky”: ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that […]
The following few pictures of Ari Leschnikoff are from Mr. Mircho Slivenski’s archive. My special thanks to him! Благодаря на господин Мирчо Сливенски за възможността да представя тук няколко снимки от неговия архив. Sent from Berlin to his mother in 1929 – На майка си от Берлин през 1929: Traveling – На път: Sofia 1936 […]
Picture from Svetla Encheva’s blog Although not music related, I would like to post this link about Arevik Shmavonyan. Those who can help – please write paper letters, they have to answer them, e-mails can be simply deleted. The Bulgarian version is here. Thank you!
There are some aspects of the musical criticism which are hard (for me) to accept. The one is the incredible ease and carelessness with which people borrow and use (and sometimes even worse– misuse) citations. We have already seen it with Kalkbrenner’s concerto. Talking to various people I realized that the blind copying does not […]