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Variations for Valentines
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 23/01/2019
» Not slushy or sloppy or kissy-kissy, but three faces of real love will be presented by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra for St Valentine's month offering at the Thailand Cultural Centre on Feb 8. The first face is the tragedy of love, the second face is the love of beauty, and the third is one of the most emotional offerings of love to humanity in general.
150 years of Rossini
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 19/06/2018
» 'Opera would be absolutely perfect," said Giachino Rossini one day while cooking a gourmet meal in his Paris mansion. "If only we could get rid of those damned singers."
'The Great American Songbook' in Bangkok
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 25/01/2018
» Never, ever call American popular melodies mere light music.
The violinist whose bow is a sabre
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 23/11/2017
» Attention Insurance Companies: Boris Belkin is coming to Bangkok on Nov 28, and nothing anywhere in the path of his knife-sharp bow is safe. Not the Bangkok Concert Hall, not Michael Tilkin, the conductor of the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra or any buildings in the area are liable to shake, rattle and roll.
Violin prodigy and the great Czech spirit
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 12/07/2016
» The entire concert of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra on July 24 will be devoted to an interval of seven years and a single Central European country. But what emotional years they were! And what inspiration came out of what we now know as the Czech Republic.
Renowned cellist warming up nicely for Bangkok
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 25/11/2014
» Jian Wang might be one of the world’s most renowned cellists, but when he’s hanging out on the edge of the Arctic Circle during the brutal winter, he could be viewed as some kind of eccentric.
From Italy to Bangkok: the golden age of opera
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 20/05/2014
» ‘I love Italian opera,” said the great English novelist D.H. Lawrence, “because it doesn’t have all those Wagnerian bellowings about fate and death and eternity. The Italians run on impulse and don’t give a damn about their immortal souls.”
Tango's passionate pilgrims
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 15/08/2013
» 'You call the tango a dance?" asked an Argentine dancer. "Ha! The tango is sex! Not making love. The tango is hurtful, filled with agony. The tango takes your wounds and opens them and makes them so painful that you bleed."