Classical Music for Aficionados

If you don't like realty then stay where you are .

I dont understand why it is your "hate" that must dictate my musical choices HERE in this thread...This is my reality: a musical thread about different cultures...

Now, not only you speak your mind but you want to bully people... i dont think i am the only one who love music from Russia HERE or any other countries you may decide you dont like.....By the way i listen music from China too....

One thing is sure, i despise censorship and propaganda of any kind...

If you dont like my musical choices stay where you are yourself...

Are you a concious being?

Accusing others is not my way of communication and bullying them either...

You are NOTHING more than me HERE...

You dont have to decide where i will go...Nor deciding like some policeman who will say what or who will be silent about ANY composers from any country... Is it clearer?

Banning Rachmaninov or Stravinsky is not a solution to political problem or a solution to war especially in a musical thread...

But i am stupid to speak to you it seems about common sense...

BUT I DONT ACCEPT TO BE BULLIED....

But i am a democrat: take a referendum and i will go out of this thread if the majority of contributors here are formed in the same mold as you , and if they all want to ban Russia from musical history...If not, you MUST go out yourself if you are a man of your words...

If you don’t like realty then stay where you are .

This is my last discovery...

Very surprising synthesis of orient and occident cultural trends..

This composer Tan Dun is very gifted because he integrated, china and classical european musical influence with Nature and musical discourse exploration...

I am very glad and enthusiastic about this quatuor...

No "deja vu" here....

He present his work and after near 7 minutes it begins....

Right after the Orange Revolution (2005) in Ukraine, I arrived in Odessa along the Black Sea. I stayed for three weeks with a girlfriend. I saw the Ukrainian State Ballet perform Giselle and Sleeping Beauty. The beautiful thing was that they used a sizable pit orchestra rather than recorded music to accompany the ballet. I also saw a variety show featuring different classical pianists along with a female Bandura ensemble at the Philharmonic Hall.

There is great pride in Ukrainian culture and it is very upsetting to see what is happening. No longer being in contact with friends and loved ones is very difficult. However, Dimitri Shostakovich has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin or the Russian invasion, so I opt to listen to Russian music as an act of defiance if nothing else. If there is a contemporary Russian composer who sides politically with Vladimir Putin, then I will refuse to listen to that composers work.