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Posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 16:02:19
Sometimes I look like this into a corner:
http://www.argerich.org/Links/Richter%20with%20Cross%20in%201993%20(photo%20by%20Clive%20Barda).jpg
Is that guy depressed?
Is staring holes in the sky a symptom of depression?
Posted by Declan on October 4, 2006, at 16:33:35
In reply to staring holes in the sky, posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 16:02:19
Which Richter is this? Not Sviatoslav Richter? He was supposed to be pretty strange, and what's more played at Stalin's funeral.
Posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 17:21:51
In reply to Re: staring holes in the sky » sdb, posted by Declan on October 4, 2006, at 16:33:35
Yes it's this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatoslav_Richter
> Which Richter is this? Not Sviatoslav Richter? He was supposed to be pretty strange, and what's more played at Stalin's funeral.
Posted by Declan on October 4, 2006, at 18:12:07
In reply to staring holes in the sky, posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 16:02:19
Maybe there was something like autism with him? I have a recording of him playing the Well Tempered Clavier.....very impressive.
Where does the 'staring holes in the sky' thing come from?
Posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 19:42:09
In reply to Re: staring holes in the sky » sdb, posted by Declan on October 4, 2006, at 18:12:07
> Maybe there was something like autism with him? I have a recording of him playing the Well Tempered Clavier.....very impressive.
I am not sure about autism. It is known that he said to remember only his house number. But he learnt wtc II in one month and had a huge repertoire. For other things than numbers he seemed to have an unbelievable memory. Furthermore he was not only a great musician, he was a great painter too. But many attributes do not support autism. Otherwise it is pretty sure that he was homosexual and he had a difficult life eg. father murdered by russians during WWII. He was a very "private" man. There is not much known.
> Where does the 'staring holes in the sky' thing come from?
I do this too. Somehow similar like on Richter's picture. I think Richter does not look very happy on that picture.
Posted by Phillipa on October 4, 2006, at 20:32:19
In reply to Re: staring holes in the sky }} declan, posted by sdb on October 4, 2006, at 19:42:09
I don't think he looks happy either. Love Phillipa
Posted by sdb on October 6, 2006, at 21:18:42
In reply to Re: staring holes in the sky }} declan » sdb, posted by Phillipa on October 4, 2006, at 20:32:19
If disabled or not disabled it is obvious that the disabled can produce gorgeous art.
In Russia they mostly used alcohol to treat something. But it didn't change in Russia at many places nowadays. Somebody from the Ukraine told me that there would be "party" everyday and bottles always empty.
Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski was a russian alcoholic and he wrote good music. Through a piano cycle he describes with music the paintings of a dead friend. Listen how you can paint paintings with music.
A terrible, wonderful reference recording by Slava Richter of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION. A must have for admirer of imagery.
Click on listen:
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