Tag: Classical Music
To the sure delight of pot-smoking, Bach-loving Coloradans, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra is hosting “Classically Cannabis,” a series of concerts that invites attendees to bring weed to the performance. “This partnership is part of an overall effort to reach out to every segment of our community,” said Jerome Kern, CEO of the symphony. “These businesses have […]
This is concert violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Stradivari’s 300-year-old “MacDonald” viola, which is poised to be “the most expensive instrument in the world.” At Sotheby’s on Monday, Carpenter performed Isaac Albéniz’s 1892 “Asturias” with its “passages that sound like nothing so much as heavy-metal shredding.” “It’s the pinnacle of my career,” Carpenter said. “Every moment up until this point […]
Yesterday, we told you about Mamrou Samuragochi, the acclaimed Japanese composer who admitted he wasn’t actually writing his own music. It’s long been public knowledge that Samuragochi is deaf — it’s part of what gets him countless otherwise unearned comparisons to Beethoven — but now it appears that may not be true either. Takashi Niigaki, the […]
It turns out that Mamrou Samuragochi, a deaf composer who’s most famous for his work scoring video games like Resident Evil and Onimusha, um, wasn’t actually composing his music. From Japan Times: “I’ve been told that there are certain circumstances that make it hard for the person (who composed the works) to come out in public, and Samuragochi has come […]
