Boris Blacher (19 January [O.S. 6 January] 1903 – 30 January 1975) was a German composer.
Blacher was born when his parents were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang (Chinese: 牛庄镇) (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922, after finishing school, he went to Berlin where he began to study architecture and mathematics. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Ernst Koch.
His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory.
His career resumed after 1945, and he later became director of the Music Academy of Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt, Gottfried von Einem, Karl Rucht, Kalevi Aho and Richard Wernick.
Blacher was married to the pianist Gerty Blacher-Herzog. They had four children including the German actress Tatjana Blacher and the international violinist Kolja Blacher. He died in Berlin at the age of 72.
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But I don't use anything anymore anyway, so I guess it'd be okay, even though I've got kind of a subversive face, or used to.
Just be well and come back soon, okay?
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in our little hotel i warn each and every tourist, don't freaking buy weed in this country, it isn't worth it, it's almost always a set up and in bali (and everywhere else) it'll cost you A LOT to get out of the problem.... one of my best friends, tim, a beautiful man from nairobi, they caught him with 0.2 grams of weed, extorted him, and extorted him till his money ran out. then, in front of his wife and 3 months old baby they put a bottle on the table, and with a gun to his head ordered him to drink, then left. he got sick, then went blind, then became paralyzed. on the 3th day in the hospital his parents came just in time to see him die, a tear rolled out of his eye and he was gone. his dad build nairobi airport, his mom had a catering company that does the catering for the UN for the whole of afrika. de doctors refused to speak to them, a nurse came and told us rudely to get that body out, a body they shot up so full with formaldehyde that an autopsy was impossible.... I helped putting my friend in his coffin and i will never forget it. tim was 29 years old when he was murdered and a beautiful man and a dear friend....
i've got plenty stories like this but this was the worst one and i won't even start about the friends i've lost because of wrong diagnosis, operations that afterwards turned out to be not needed and ended fatally, wrong or unnecessary medications....
i am a survivor of a very rare disease called tropical sprue, i was told i had two years to live if i would stay in the tropics. that was 12 years ago....
i won't tell you what i beautiful city bandung was when i first came here, almost 18 years ago, now all broken down, polluted, dirty, full of garbage and not a road that is not potholed....
i've done voluntary work for bhakti luhur, for handicapped kids, i've seen things that nobody should see, in jakarta, bekasi, tanggeran and in malang....
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this is for you to read and i will remove this comment soon ok....
oh, i forgot. you know, in the hospital they handed tim's parents a death certificate. it said "died of aids".
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like an "exciting" place to live...respect to you for soldiering though it. Here in Japan, they have generally less "personal" extortion and just do it on a nationwide level, like in the U.S., with bank scams, political scams, etc.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this album, thank you very much for uploading this--more Blacher I never knew about. Very colorful and interesting composer!
I would like to point out that the track division is somewhat garbled, however:
Tracks 1 & 2 are fine as given, but Tracks 3 & 4 are actually both parts of the same Piano Sonata. Unfortunately, there is also a slight period of silence between the 2 parts which is not reflected in the MP3 files, so it is not so easy to combine them accurately (maybe adding a couple of seconds of silence would suffice...).
So track 5 of the MP3s actually combines tracks 4 & 5 of the LP; it starts with Apreslude, and the final "Mr. Clementi" LP track starts from 4'54" of the MP3 track.
Anyway, I discovered these tracks are now also available on YouTube, so no worries. Best regards, and thanks again for the many gems here.