36 Years Ago

36 Years Ago, Vienna 1971—A Student Journal

Day 068: Music appreciation, Vienna style

Day 68 — Music appreciation, Vienna style
09-October-1971 (Sat.)


I don’t practice today. I go to see
Boris Godunov for the second time. Again, performed by the Bolshoi. The Viennese really love their music and they show it. This is music appreciation at its best.
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Day 066: One-step-in-front-of-the-other

Day 66 — One-step-in-front-of-the-other
07-October-1971 (Thur.)


Sergei Prokofiev Wikimedia Commons
Life goes on with my second horn lesson and the notification that I need to do better. I will. Once again, music fills the evening with a performance of Prokofiev’s War and Peace performed by the amazing Bolshoi Theater Company. Prokofiev is on the right here. Hi Sergei. (I like that name.) Read More...

Day 064: Boris is good enough



2007 Washington National Art Gallery
It’s the Bolshoi Theater Company at the Staatsoper with a rousing performance of Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. It’s an amazing performance. Mussorgsky is certainly good enough for me. In 2007, I spend a bit of time in Washington, D.C.
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