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CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE: www.alihelnwein.com The Strayed Dogs LLC (a company I started with my siblings) website: www.strayeddogs.com www.cellosupplies.com www.alihelnwein.com ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ ............................................................ ........................ The Hot Club of France Page of Beethoven's 4th movement of his 9th Symphony Mark MothersbaughYou have heard of the Mozart effect, BUT, have you heard of the:SCHOENBERG EFFECT: Child never repeats a word until he's used all the other words in his vocabulary. Sometimes talks backwards. Eventually, people stop listening to him. Child blames them for their inability to understand him.GLASS EFFECT: the child tends to repeat himself over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Danny Elfman
"He'd be better off shoveling snow." --Richard Strauss on Arnold Schoenberg.
"Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune." --Igor Stravinsky
"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside." --Ludwig van Beethoven
When told that a soloist would need six fingers to perform his concerto, Arnold Schoenberg replied, "I can wait."
"Exit in case of Brahms." --Philip Hale's proposed inscription over the doors of Boston Symphony Hall
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it." -- Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist.
"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."--Niccolo Paganini
"Never look at the trombones; it only encourages them." - Richard Strauss
"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major."--Sergei Prokofiev
"Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas." -- Arnold Schoenberg"Truly, in Schubert there is a divine spark." -- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Franz Schubert (Vienna 1797 - Vienna
1828)
Schubert was singing in a choir as
a boy, but later quit to help his father out as
a teacher. He grew tired of the classroom, and
decided to become an independent composer. He
since lived in poverty. An introvert, he only
had few true friends who helped him out
financially. Schubert was most famous for his
"songs" and he established the German
Lied as a new form of art. The disease that
caused his death at age 32 is still the subject
of debate. Some think he died of syphillis,
some suggest he died of typhoid fever.
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My Interests

Beethoven, music, fiddles, hoe-downs, Alixandra Berg

Music:

Beethoven, Beth Gibbons, Cat Power, Mark Mothersbaugh, Modest Mouse, Philip Glass, NIN, Django Reinhardt, Dvorak (especially string quartets and the New World Symph), Vivaldi, Ysaye, Portishead, Rage Against the Machine, Beethoven, David Bowie's "Space Oddity", Danny Elfman, Beck, Fiona Apple, Tom Waits, Mendelssohn, Elliott Smith, Klezmatics and other Klezmer music, Brahms, John Williams, Duke Ellington, Bjork, Joe Venuti, Chick Corea's Piano Concerto & Spain, Stephan Grappelli, Maxim Vengerov, Cat Stevens (older stuff), Beethoven, Blonde Redhead, J. S. Bach, Paganini, Benny Goodman, Jean-Luc Ponty, Mozart, Palestrina, Tchaikovsky, Itzhak Perlman, Rostropovich, David Oistrach, Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin. ------------------------------ BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC: 1) Ysaye (listen to his solo violin pieces, Maxim Vengerov plays them very well) 2) Beethoven Violin Concerto (he only wrote one, incredible piece, best version is the one played by Heifetz) 3) Beethoven Symphony III: The Eroica 4) Beethoven Symphony V (the first movement is the really famous one, the 2nd and 4th are great aswell...so is the 3rd movement) 5) Beethoven's 9th Symphony, especially the 4th movement 6) Beethoven "Kreutzer" Violin Sonata, especially the first movement (the greatest violin sonata ever, he first started writing it as a violin concerto, which is much longer, and then decided to make a sonata out of it, so it brought violin sonatas to a whole new level, one of my favorite pieces ever, the best versions are the ones by Vengerov, Perlman or Anne Sophie Mutter or the one by Szigetti & Bartok) 7) Beethoven "Spring" Violin Sonata, 4th movement (Perlman's version is great) 8) Beethoven "Pathetique" Piano Sonata 9) Bach Double Violin Concerto (Amazing piece, the version played by Menuhin and Oistrakh is probably the best, or the one by Stern and Perlman) 10) Bach Violin Concerto A minor (Great piece, he only wrote 3 violin concertos, the double concerto and this one are my favorite) 11) Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 12) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Maj. (The Heifetz version is my favorite so far) 13) Vivaldi Double Vln Concerto A minor 14) Dvorak "American" String Quartet (my favorite string quartet. Dvorak manages to make more use of 4 string players than a lot of composers can do with a whole orchestra) 15) Dvorak "New World" Symphony, No. 9, especially the 4th movement 16) Brahms Hungarian Dances No. 5, No. 1 and No. 7 17) Bach Cello suite No.1 18) Brahms Violin Sonatas (He wrote 3, one of them I don't like as much but I can't remember which one it is, I think it's No. 1) 19) Paganini Violin Concertos (there's some Italian guy, relatively unknown violinist, who plays some of the concertos on Paganini's violin, "The Canon", great performance) 20) Mozart's Requiem 21) Saint-Saens "Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso for Violin & Orchestra" (Listen to the one played by David Oistrakh or Itzakh Perlman, other people butcher the piece) 22) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (I think it's in D Maj., Yehudi Menuhin plays it perfectly) 23) "Hebrew Melody" by Achron 24) Shubert's "The Death and the Maiden" String Quartet, especially the 2nd movement

Movies:

Delicatessen (greatest movie ever), Rushmore, City of the Lost Children, Amelie, Rogue Trader, Dancer In the Dark, Bugsy Malone, With a Friend Like Harry (another french movie), Sweet and Lowdown, Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Uncle Irvin (the brain in the jar) from City of the Lost Children...my hero Krank from City of the Lost Children Scene from Amelie Scene from Delicatessen where they play music on the cello and the musical saw

Books:

Candide, The Count of Monte Christo (whoever wrote the screenplay for the movie can rot in hell), Catcher in the Rye.

Heroes:

ALIXANDRA BERG