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Menoizikul; Midweek Musicalisms
For the month of February, I have opted to remember Ukraine. Unusually, I am doing so through the talent and virtuosity of one of its young bayan (accordion) players. A single artiste for the whole month. Aleksandr Hrustevich is a prodigy! Let us begin with a fun piece of music which is not Ukrainian but played by this young Ukrainian in the capital of Kyiv in the year before the world fell off some sort of precipice... 2019 feels like a century ago now.
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Glad to listen, Amazing
ReplyDeletewow one instrument can become a whole band...
ReplyDeleteWow, he is good. Take care, have a great day!
ReplyDeletehe is very talented. and you are right, the world fell off the cliff and is still in free fall, the entire world changed and not for the better
ReplyDeleteFoot tapping music.
ReplyDeleteHi Yam - yes ... desperate to know it's been a full two years of war, let alone the years before ...Aleksandr Hrustevich is a brilliant player - it's fun to listen to ... thanks for highlighting the Ukrainians - they deserve so much in life, and to live it - with thoughts - Hilary
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure here......I used to play accordion ...don't faint. I took lessons from ages 7-10ish.
ReplyDeleteI even played 'Lady of Spain' by ear. I was so proud of myself. When I played it for my teacher, he had a full blown hissy fit. He brought me to tears. It might not have been a good idea to learn it, but there had to be a better way to get that across. He crushed my desire to continue.
I do love accordion music
Hugs Cecilia
Hari OM
DeleteOOOHHH... so many young people have their musical explorations damaged by careless teachers such as you experienced... you'll enjoy this month's musicalisms then! Yxx
I've never been a huge fan of the accordion but he is amazing!
ReplyDeleteAccordion is an instrument that has never ceased to fascinate me. It looks so mystifying.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a talented young man!
ReplyDeleteAccordion music always brings a smile to my face :-)
Not in general crazy about the sound of the accordion but I can see he's very talented.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
I love tango music and thoroughly enjoyed this.
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