Complete text -- "On This Day: The Saxophone and Tchaikovsky"
Posted Thursday 06 November 2003
On This Day: The Saxophone and Tchaikovsky
Dinant, Belgium, November 6, 1814: Adolphe Sax is born, and will eventually invent the saxophone. The saxophone never became popular during his lifetime, as it was considered an illegitimate instrument, and not fitten to be played. Then along came that no-account jazz music, and musicians who thought differently. Without Mr. Sax, what would have become of Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, and Jim Grantham?
St. Petersburg, November 6, 1893: Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died after drinking unboiled water during a cholera epidemic. His last work was Symphony No. 6, the Pathetique. (For the exclusive benefit of Sir Ola, I'd like to add that Tchikovsky was also famous for the beautiful Le Sacre du Printeps.)
St. Petersburg, November 6, 1893: Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died after drinking unboiled water during a cholera epidemic. His last work was Symphony No. 6, the Pathetique. (For the exclusive benefit of Sir Ola, I'd like to add that Tchikovsky was also famous for the beautiful Le Sacre du Printeps.)
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sir Ola wrote:
You are just trying to trick me into admitting I read this stuff.
11/11/03 12:56:41
bloggard wrote:
Trick? Trick?
How woefully suspicious have become the times in which we live, no?
For everybody else, Sir Ola is referring to the fact that it was not actually Tchaikovsky who composed Le Sacre du Printeps (The Rites of Spring). No, in fact the composer was Modigliani.
How woefully suspicious have become the times in which we live, no?
For everybody else, Sir Ola is referring to the fact that it was not actually Tchaikovsky who composed Le Sacre du Printeps (The Rites of Spring). No, in fact the composer was Modigliani.
11/11/03 18:22:19
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