Claudio Abbado, Verdi's Requiem

(Dies Irae) Chiesa di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, 1970
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Belgian #surrealist painter #RenéMagritte 🎨 🇧🇪
📸 great American photographer #DuaneMichals 🇺🇸 1965.

The solar system is incredibly perplex. While it may feel that we are stationary on Earth, we’re actually delicately dancing through space at a stunning 448,000 miles per hour, with the Sun as our choreographer leading the way.

Pink Panther theme tune

Legendary exterior design

A day in the life of Erik Satie - one of the greatest enigmas of classical music.

Dan Walker compares routines…

Wisdom/inspiration from Albert Einstein (d otd 1955):
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

Swan Lake supremacy 🦢

It's a classic for a reason, and we can't wait to play it in our 2024/25 season 😉

Explore our upcoming concerts via the link in our bio 🎶

Today, legendary composer Henry Mancini would have celebrated his 100th birthday! Let’s remember his astounding musical legacy with one of his most famous tunes: the PINK PANTHER! Watch it in this brilliant concert of the 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker! bit.ly/3JjfoUg

#jokeoftheday Another funny #pun for your amusement. #music

The climax of the 1st movement of Mahler's incomplete 10th Symphony is one of the most shattering moments in all of music. It was written in 1910, when the common-practice in Western music that had endured for centuries was collapsing, and World War 1 was just four years away.

Nothing to see here. Just a barking bird! 🐕🐦‍⬛🔊

T-3 days until The Planets!🪐

We're counting down the days to our performance of Holst's masterpiece at the Southbank Centre. In the meantime, let's take a deep dive into the ultimate scrolling score, with the Mars-vellous composer's original notation!😉

Courtesy of Faber Music Publications

Did you know that Mahler's Seventh Symphony features one of the most challenging timpani parts in the classical repertory? Principal Timpani Don Liuzzi broke it down for us before the performances. Witness Don in his element this weekend! Tickets: philorch.org/mahler-7

Listen to this musical parrot

One white dog + wet freshly cut grass = 👇

When the eminent biologist and author Lewis Thomas was asked what message he would choose to send from Earth into outer space in the Voyager spacecraft, he answered, 'I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.' After a pause, he added, 'But that would be boasting.'

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