tails22x (July 23, 2008 at 6:32 am)

If pictures are worth 1000 words. Then music is worth infinity...

Gazzara5 (July 21, 2008 at 6:22 am)

If you're speaking of "Ritt der Walkure" by Wagner, yes. And Elmer pronoumces it "wabbit" as you well know. Now, please let us not desecrate this brilliant performance of a magnificent overture any more.

cmsahe (July 21, 2008 at 1:53 am)

What? That's a Bugs Bunny theme! :Kill the Rabbit, kill the rabbit...

soulman6345789 (July 20, 2008 at 12:33 am)

wow

juanmax7979 (July 18, 2008 at 10:42 am)

Masterpiece.

TintedReasoning (July 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm)

Mhm, yes, you're right. Completely overlooked that aspect of it. It is Seiji Ozawa after all; one person you could depend onto extract the best he can from any ensemble whatever the venue is. -sigh- I wish I do manage to stumble upon a good recording of this particular performance. It 'looks' brilliant.

nominalvelocity (July 16, 2008 at 9:06 pm)

Dude, you're listening to this over youtube. The horrible audio compression they use alone will kill any hope of subtlety, even if the original recording was technically excellent.I haven't had the pleasure of listening to this particular recording through a quality medium, but I very much doubt the choice of venue impacted the performance greatly :)

SnakeJAS3 (July 16, 2008 at 5:17 am)

It's not ironic! It's just coincidental! The use of words expressing something other than theirliteral intention. Now that IS irony!(Bender FTW -_-)

MysteriousDoor (July 15, 2008 at 8:57 pm)

Its irony that the 1812 overture is often associated with independence day in america and the french helped us to gain our independence.

Gazzara5 (July 15, 2008 at 1:24 pm)

Thank you. I remember Fiedler. He was a brilliant conductor. 1976 was the "Bicentennial," which was a good time to get it started as the audiences were huge that year.