Categories → curiosities
Reblog → Image
A recent arrival on the Tumblr arts and letters scene, Letterheady today brings us this banger of a brand statement from 19th-century musical Vienna.
Letterheady: From 1892, a spectacularly enormous letterhead belonging to Walcker Orgelbau; a German company who have been building spectacularly enormous pipe organs since 1820.
E. F. Walcker & Cie, 1892 | Source
128 Soloists
And via said blog: Most orchestras can’t manage one cool picture, and these guys just rolled out more than a hundred.
True. More recent coolness from the Berliners here and here.
Inside the orchestra
The Berlin Phil takes us inside the orchestra … way inside.
Yet another of this ensemble’s many creative approaches to engaging people in concert music. [via @LaceyH]
TRIN FTW
NYC design firm Front Studio rethinks a book cafe, their slick pics of the space get a ton of exposure on visuals blogs, and classical music interlopes in the form of Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise. Win!
Reblog → Too much Messiah?
This one is for all those musicians who’ve had a bit too much Messiah this holiday season.
symphony no. 2 in e minor: William Hogarth – The Enraged Musician, 1741
And for those who haven’t had enough … Here is a closer look at Handel’s famous score, penned in the same year and place as Hogarth’s outrageous musical street scene. [Another nice find from Sandra.]
Creepy cover
Following up on my last post about the record business, it seems the classical music segment of that industry has had something to offer after all – hideous album covers! Here is a particularly ghastly one, perfect for Halloween:
Discovered via a recent installment of the very funny ‘Greatest Classical CD Covers EVER’ series at Too Many Tristans, where it is suggested that ‘a generation of children were turned off classical music forever by this cover.’
iMaestro
Now you know why that person beside you is waving an iPhone in cut time. More on the new Gustavo Dudamel app and the live webcast of his October 3 Hollywood Bowl concert at the conductor’s LA Phil microsite. [via Life’s a Pitch]
