elleng
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Sat Apr-04-09 04:35 PM
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Prague with tone poem The Moldau, a/k/a Vltava. |
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Sat Apr-04-09 04:41 PM
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1. I absolutely LOVE The Moldau ... |
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... and all of Ma Vlast, actually. Smetana really "hit it out of the park" ... and oddly, I've always felt a kinship to that particular 'genre' of classical music - Borodin, Smetana, Dvorak - only to find out they were from the same area and lived at the same time as my great-great-grandparents.
I guess they really put their surroundings into their music, so much that its 'vibe' travels through generations of Bohemians. :shrug:
Thanks! :hi:
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Sat Apr-04-09 04:57 PM
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4. We must be related, somehow! |
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Imagine my delight when briefly visiting Prague a few years ago, I discovered it was being played by the symphony that night! :fistbump:
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Sat Apr-04-09 05:30 PM
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7. THAT would have been amazing!! Lucky You!! |
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Its one of my ultimate dreams to be able to take a couple weeks and wander around the Czech Republic!
:hi:
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Sat Apr-04-09 04:43 PM
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2. Some of that music sounds exactly like the Israeli national anthem, "Hatikva" |
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Do you know what piece that is?
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Sat Apr-04-09 04:53 PM
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3. Funny you should mention that! |
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Sat Apr-04-09 05:10 PM
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5. According to the wikipedia page, Hatikva's melody comes from a folk tune |
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Although folk music was the common source for a lot of composers, so perhaps the two songs share a common ancestor of sorts.
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Sat Apr-04-09 05:21 PM
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Didn't someones say that Smetana used folk tunes? Certainly Dvorak did.
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