lucca monteiro

I aspire to be ⅓ of what Anthony Bourdain once was.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ― Carl Sagan

[onyekachi @honeycaki3]

coltrane, mozart, okigbo, basquiat, marlowe, joplin, keats, schiele, winehouse, hendrix, redding, cooke, masaccio, modigliani, galois, chopin. today, i am thinking of all the geniuses who died young, who, it appears, came to this world to fulfil a singular purpose & vanished.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@j_ckley @godspeed_aflame I was mostly joking. I greatly admire Brahms, and especially his chamber music — although I wouldn't go so far as to say it's one of the best, honestly

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@j_ckley @godspeed_aflame I guess Brahms was His “what if Beethoven was boring as fuck”

[Jonathon Catlin @planetdenken]

In today's reading for my department's introduction to historical methods course 🙂‍↕️

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

guys on here will (rightfully) make fun of Rieu for being kitschy and saccharine but turn around and praise Tchaikovsky.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@ImperorCaesar @UralicFrog (...) the excerpts he plays (never the complete symphony, concerto, or opera) are always the most famous excerpts, disconnected from everything that gives them value. A work of classical music gains value from its complete construction, never from just a specific excerpt.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

Here's what truly gives goosebumps in classical music. The second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto—both conducted by the legend Karajan. Go fuck yourselves, you and your Andreu Rieu or Dudamel.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

When it's not Rieu, it's always Dudamel or that ridiculous Aalampour. The Candlelight concerts are even worse, but I imagine they're still a unique phenomenon from Brazil. These idiots could at least try to actually engage with the culture they want to defend, right?

[Fiona @FionaSmall]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

When it's not Rieu, it's always Dudamel or that ridiculous Aalampour. The Candlelight concerts are even worse, but I imagine they're still a unique phenomenon from Brazil. These idiots could at least try to actually engage with the culture they want to defend, right?

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@LexDecs This is more cultural than any nonsense from Rieu or Dudamel.

[Josh @LexDecs]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending.

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

In the past 24 hours I've seen these guys defend 1) Andre Rieu cruise excursion slop, 2) a really terrible cliched extract from a J.K. Rowling crime book ("the best prose I've read in a contemporary novel"). Losers

[eugyppius @eugyppius1]

Is somebody paying you to put this phaggot Rieu on my timeline every month and equate him with Western Civilisation or are you just a misbegotten retard or what? Three million impressions and 30k likes for this bilge.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@ImperorCaesar @UralicFrog The conductor's job is to provide intonation and harmony for the orchestra. Rieu is just a silly puppet for the audience. It's classical music for people who know nothing about classical music. Temu's version of what a truly grand concert and a grand orchestra would be like.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@ImperorCaesar @UralicFrog (...) the excerpts he plays (never the complete symphony, concerto, or opera) are always the most famous excerpts, disconnected from everything that gives them value. A work of classical music gains value from its complete construction, never from just a specific excerpt.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

@UralicFrog Fuck me, even that idiot Aalampour is a better example of culture than Rieu.

[lucca monteiro @LuccaGMB]

If you truly care about "sacred Western culture," you would visit the Salzburg festival where it is NOT allowed to record ridiculous videos like this, and where SERIOUS musicians play masterfully. André Rieu is a gourmetslop made for imbeciles. He has absolutely nothing artistic.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending.

[Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子) @JakabfiK]

We are not going to have this discussion every two months that this guy is anything more than the king of kitsch for midwits.
It’s a variety show for semi-cultured boomers with more money than sense who don’t actually want to “suffer through“ a symphony or opera.

[Lord Thurlow @LordThurlow]

Why are we now all pretending this is anything more than entry-grade Euroslop?

It’s a parody of high culture. It’s a cruise ship band playing to people who want to hear the theme from Dr Zhivago or Schindler’s List played by an average violinist in an overwrought frilly dress.