Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 2006
"Promenade" - "The Old Castle"
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky/orch. Ravel
Part 1 of 4
From the recent BBC Proms, Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story in a great performance by the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 2006
"Promenade/Tuiler ies" - "Goldenberg & Schmuyle"
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky/orch. Ravel
Part 2 of 4
This is the middle of Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, beginning at the part that the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra encored, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
What an awesome performance. That trumpet section is insane!
(The video response below is Bernstein himself conducting the Mambo! :-)
Josh Groban sings "Our Love Affair" from the movie An Affair to Remember, with composer-conductor John Williams at the piano.
From the inaugural concerts of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, October 2003.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 2006,
in a blazing "Hut on Fowl's Legs" and stunning "Great Gate of Kiev"
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky/orch. Ravel
Part 4 of 4
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7
V. Rondo-Finale
Part 1 of 2
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson-Thomas, conductor
Sept. 2, 2007
Royal Albert Hall
London, England
From the recent BBC Proms, the closing of Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story performed by the Simon Bolivar Youth orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel.
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)
Igor Stravinsky
Part I (through Jeu de Rapt)
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
October 23, 2003, from inauguration of Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5
I. Trauermarsch
Part 1 of 2
Philadelphia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach
David Bilger, trumpet solo
May 22, 2005
Suntory Hall
Tokyo, Japan
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The overwhelming close of Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony from a fantastic performance by The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in '98. Soloists are Anne-Sofie von Otter and Hillevi Martinpelto.
This was Sir Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the CBSO, who served as their Music Director for 18 years.
August 30, 1998
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
From the inaugural concerts of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bernard Herrmann's beautiful "Scene d'Amour" from Vertigo and rousing "The Death Hunt" from On Dangerous Ground, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Here's the Urlicht from the incredible performance of the 2nd Symphony that a clip was uploaded from.
This was Sir Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the CBSO, which he led for 18 years.
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
August 30, 1998
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England
