Radio KAOM: Dudamel conducts "Bacchanale" by Camille Saint Saens

GREAT PERFORMANCE!

Camille Saint Saens

"Bacchanale" 

from Samson and Delilah

Gustavo Dudamel 

conducts

Berlin Philharmonic

Silvesterkonzert 2010

This is the music to the dance in the next post

I wanted us to listen to it first before watching the dance

It is well worth your time

Dudamel and the Berlin do a phenomenal job!

WHEW!

I was tired after this frenzied performance

WOW!

The only flaw is in the beginning when the camera man can't find the 1st Oboe player who is playing the opening solo while holding the camera on the English Horn player who isn't playing at that time. Whoa! 

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/QbkCfxnoY4A

AOM TV: "Bacchanale" performed at The Met

Art by DDiArte

ORGY-ASTIC ECSTATIC!!!

WOW! WOW! WOW!

Wooo Weeee

Now this is the party I want to go to

Y'all cum along

This is a dance scene from an opera

A Wild and Crazy Party

Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll!

: )

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, 

the Greco-Roman god of 

wine, freedom, intoxication and ecstasy. 

We commonly think of them as frenzied, 

wild and crazy, uninhibited, drunken orgies.

That is what this music and dance express.

It builds and builds and builds into a orgiastic frenzy!

"Bacchanale"

from the opera 

Samson et Dalila Act III

by 

Camille Saint-Saëns

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Conductor: James Levine

Met Centennial 1983

*-Recommend Watching This Full Screen-*

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/FdpmTuxzs3Q

BALLET v FIGURE SKATING: The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns

Gloriously Beautiful

Today I wanted to compare a ballet performance

to an figure skating performance based on that ballet

Ballet:

Svetlana Zakharova

performing to

The Swan 

music by

Camille Saint-Saëns

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/GBp1LV0465g

Now here is the ballet adapted for ice skating:

Figure Skating:

Oksana Baiul

The Swan

1994 Lillehammer Olympic Exhibition

+Well, Bollocks!
You will have to click the direct link to view this video on YouTube
It has been blocked by the IOC==

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/9kLH9oRQcLc

MUSIC: "The Swan (Le Cygne)" performed by Stjepan Hauser

Beautiful

Stjepan Hauser

performing 

"The Swan (Le Cygne)"

by Camille Saint-Saëns 

from The Carnival of the Animals

with the 

Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra 

Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, October 2017 

Elisabeth Fuchs, conductor

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/-OjCEwhtSuU