Friday, September 24, 2010

Hotty Tchaikovsky

You always see photos and painting of Tchaikovsky as an old man - and by "old" I mean early 50s (!) since he died at age 53. He looks like he's closer to 70 in his later pictures. Dayam.
So it's hard to imagine that just twenty-fiveish years earlier he looked like this.

Hello Drosselmeyer!

Well now that I've defiled the memory of poor dead gay Tchaikovsky let's have some of his music. Martha Argerich performs the Piano Concerto #1. Playing the opening to this is fun, like playing the opening of the Who's Baba O'Reilly.



Speaking of classic rock...