Beautiful footage of the waxwings. I see you caught a young one eating, too. You wouldn't happen to know what type of tree they're eating from, would you?
Bravo! I am 76 y.o. and studying these pieces with two teenagers at music conservatory under direction of one teacher. I hope we will reach this level in June
I just passed my 82nd birthday (2021) by learning the fun polka of the Five Pieces. No where as precise and clear quality as these two fine young musicians but I'm happy and my brain synapsis are sure getting exercise.
Is there any birds that look a lot like this but aren’t ? I’m in Toronto , I am a very amateur watcher , came across a small tree today with about 7-14 birds . Didn’t have a camera so I shot some on my cell phone they didn’t come out . They had a crown, grey buff brown and a black eye like a cedar wax wing . I tried my Merlin ID and this is really frustrating me I can’t seem to figure it out
The Bowheian Waxwings look nearly identical, but are slightly larger. They are more on the Western side of the states, I believe. If you'd like to learn more about birding, check out Mark's Backyard Birds. He sometimes goes live and takes questions online - fun stuff, if you're into birding.
The cedar waxwing is the bird that makes young mean boys stop shooting wild birds when thay see them after thay have killed one God did some of his best work when he made this Master peace still sorry after 50 years
How do we listen to music? When you hear a piece for the very first time, then it is fresh, it is new. But when you listen to it for the second time, it is not new anymore. Then you know what note is going to come, and therefore listen from the past, wich is the known. And then one starts to listen one note ahead, wich becomes old, not new and fresh. And in that kind of listening there is a certain pleasure. So is it possible not to listen from thought, wich is memory and experience, because thought always compares what it thinks is better, the highest. It is always judging and therefore never actually listens to what is being played.
well if you compare it to eating familiar food, you surely are enjoying it again, aren't you? on the whole anyway, without thinking of components and texture and some particular little pieces of it in your mouth, and if you do that then your life most likely is a big boredom, but it is not I am certain, because we manage somehow to find that pleasure you mention in repetitive things that are going through all our lives
This is so beautiful! I have only seen one in my back yard. If I have seen them before I never noticed. But their call is very striking. Thats what made me look out back that day! I would love to watch a flock of these wonderful darlings. I was so in awe of the fellow who came to visit . His colors were so bold and the sounds! Just amazing. Thank you so much for this video. I enjoy it even with other bird calls . Its perfect and relaxing.
That is correct. It is actually arrangements done by Shostakovich's assistant under the composer's guidance. The pieces were actually from never-performed ballets from the 1930s and in one instance from a cartoon (Imagine a cartoon in the Stalinist era!) The last piece was from a pas de deux called the "Dance of the Milkmaid and the Tractor Driver." It send the violinist who is my partner when I've performed this into giggles.
I discovered this piece a year ago upon seeing this video. My musical partner and I (she's the CM of one of our orchestras in Wash. DC, I'm the Asst. CM and we now have a string quartet as well) have since played it several times at events with a pianist from my church. Thanks guys!
