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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1835 – 1921) Calimille Saint-Saens is my favorite French composer of The Romantic Era. However my discovery about him was late, I discovered about him since I started watching figure skating. Even though I had heard his famous music “ The Swan “ before, I didn’t know Saint Saens was the composer of this beautiful music. I had thought this music was by Tchaikovsky , and that it was a part of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet music “ Swan Lake “. I don’t know why I got such an idea and had been believing that without checking who is the composer of “ The Swan “. Maybe I was making my own original story in my mind about “The Swan“. The first time I discovered about Saint-Saens was since I watched Johnny Weir ’s 2004 - 2005 short program performance “ Rondo Capriccioso “ , this program is one of my top favorites of his performances ( 2004 TEB France) and I really loved the music, so I finally checked the composer of the mu...

Recently I’m very interested in Franz Liszt ’s life, his music and his musical talent and while reading about his life story, I found that his popularity was even much more than I had imagined ! His killer charm made so many ladies crazy, to the point that they created a word for it, it was called “ Lisztomania “ which had never happened before at such an intensity. In fact, it was so intense, that people thought it was some kind of disease, a “ fever “, and they had people who suffered from this “fever “ go to the doctor to see what it was and how to “cure “ it. And the funny thing is they couldn’t figure out why this “ fever “ was only caused by one person - Franz Liszt . What is Lisztomania ? Here is the link for the explanation about Lisztomania , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania_(phenomenon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Franz_Liszt “ Lisztomania or Liszt fever is a term used to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward Franz Liszt during his perfor...

http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/ Since my childhood, I sometimes imagined what it would be like if there was a time machine … Future - I imagined to go traveling to future when I was a school girl, struggling with studies before examinations. Wanted to know the result of examinations. But that’s it, also who will I marry with ?? On the other hand, scared to go to future to see my life. At that time I didn’t know that people’s thoughts, emotions create our future, and I was completely thinking like life is a destiny, all passive. But since I knew life is about how we create it, I don’t need to think about time machines to see my future anymore. Past - Whenever I read about biographies of interesting people in history, I imagine to go to the past. If there was a time machine or a magic door and I could time travel easily, First, 1. I would go to see me when I was born Especially, from the time I was born to 3 or 4 years old, the times when I have almos...

5 Music Virtuosos of the 19th century Franz Liszt ( 1811 - 1886) Frederic Chopin ( 1810 - 1849) Pyotr Tchaikovsky ( 1840-1893) Camille Saint- Saens, ( 1835 - 1921) Jules Massenet ( 1842 - 1912 ) Since we found this amazing site, http://tchaikovsky-research.net/ which has so many information about not only, Pyotr Tchaikovsky ,  but many other people who were around him in that generation, I’ve been even more into the 19th century ’s, my favorite composers. Tchaikovsky seems like really a perfectionist, analyzing music and many other things and people,  and there are thousands of his private letters which he wrote to a wealthy widow named Nadezdha von Meck who admired him and his music so much. He might not have imagined that his private letters to her would one day be open to public viewing in the future. I feel like becoming a gossip woman when I started reading them,  but it ’s so interesting to know, as he is one of ...

Ray was flipping through the TV channels last night to see if there were any movies on , when he ran across a biography movie about the classical music composer Tchaikovsky. Recently we had been listening to his music, so we decided to watch it. We missed the very beginning of the movie, so it started from a scene showing Tchaikovsky as a young man, first time performing his Piano Concerto N1 ( which is now one of the most popular piano concertos of all time. It is also one of my favorites of his music ). After he finished playing he was criticized directly by a music critic, who called it worthless and unplayable. I was thinking  “ seriously ??? Such an incredible music, there was a person who was saying this is worthless and horrible music ?? " It reminds me of a story about when Beethoven was young, he was told by his music teacher that he had no music talent . After watching the movie , I read some bio information about Tchaikovsky online ( NWE: Peter Ilyic...

Johnny Weir is Mr. Entertainment. And the entertainment never stops. He is in the Honor of Grand Marshal in today's Pride Parade at LA , is leading the parade and over 400,000 people are expected !  Johnny Weir talks about the honor of grand marshal in Sundays pride parade Whenever I take a break from his news, when I come back there is always a lot of catching up to do. lol His twitter followers are a veritable legion, now numbering 94,829 ( as of the date June 12’ 2011) , and his followers are still increasing every day. It will soon be over 100,000. It means he is still attracting new fans (?). And also his face book has 60,208 followers. Until he started doing twitter in May’2009, the only way we could get his new information was his journal, and also Q&A, sometimes his old fan site( which disappeared now that his activity is mainly on the social net work ) and his media interviews. I was always looking forward to his journals an...