Something for the weekend. Beethoven’s Symphony Number Six.
Symphony Number Six
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Wonderful performance. Barenboim is amazing. He is seemingly everywhere at once in the classical music world. I wonder when he sleeps.
Remember the Pastoral in Fantasia (Leopold Stokowski)? I saw this at the age of 10 (the movie when it premiered in 1940) and whenever I hear the Pastoral, images of fauns, nymphs, drunken Bacchus, deer come to mind.
“Remember the Pastoral in Fantasia (Leopold Stokowski)?”
Yes! That was my favorite part of Fantasia, which I first saw in full on VHS video in about 1985. Sometimes I wish animation technology would go back to the way Disney Studios used to do it, before CGI.