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.’
Wishing you a happy, healthy and hearing-filled new year! [illustration by Jon Klassen via burst of beaden]
Ellington – Nutcracker Suite, Overture [arr. Tyzik]
WCFSO – December 2005
Valentine’s day, rooted as it is in violence, invites a revisiting of the old Veronese feud.
Juliet: My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy.
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v [138-141]
Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet, Suite no. 2, the Montagues and the Capulets, opening
WCFSO – February 2008
