Our school orchestra played this. Considering the oldest player was 13 I reckon we did a pretty good job. At the age of 63 I'm still in touch with some of those musicians. Its not a piece you forget in a hurry. I was a flautist in those days.
I just want to share something. This song played on my way home from the hospital on the day my son was born almost two years ago. It perfectly encapsulates the emotion I felt that day and it still moves me to tears whenever I hear it. The wonder of fatherhood, life and love is magnified by this work of divine art.
Actually, it was Harley Race when he was king and used that piece for his entrance. Later, it was Haku in 1988, then Hacksaw Jim Duggan in 1989, Macho Man Randy Savage (using his own theme), and finally Jerry Lawler in 1993.
A few years ago I did a 250km bike ride. This came on my playlist as I was getting to the top of the last real mountain and it was raining heavily. Truly one of the most magical moments of my life.
In my high school orchestra we'd play this at the very end of the senior graduation ceremonies. Finally after 4 years I was able to walk the graduation and hear this song as I exited high school and took my first steps into the unknown.
Flat-out the single most _majestic_ piece of music ever written. Others may be more bombastic, more powerful, or more thrilling, but for the sheer essence of MAJESTY, nothing touches this.
We played Pictures at an Exhibition my first season in the marching band, so it always has a special place in my heart. I distinctly remember shedding a couple of tears while playing this one, and thinking "I can't believe us clumsy, goofy middle and high school kids are actually making these sounds". I am clinging hard to that association right now, and trying not to wonder what will happen to Kiev... 💔
This is indeed a phenomenal piece. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Ravel who orchestrated Pictures which was composed by Mussorgsky for solo piano. Perhaps Rimsky-Korsakov also orchestrated it but I believe it is Ravel's that is the more famous and more often performed.
Just to provide a bit of a historical perspective. The great gates of Kyiv was a design /sketch made by Hartmann as part of a contest to built a gate to honor the Russian tzar Alexander II after surviving an assassination attempt. Mussorgsky was a Russian composer and composed the piece after seeing the painting. The great gate of Kyiv doesn't exist, it was never built. The golden gate does exist and was built in the 11th century. This piece of wonderful music has nothing to do with the people of Ukraine and everything with an ode of Mussorgsky to his friend Hartmann.
You are absolutely right! Reading other comments, I started to feel sick. I hate it when people mix politics with art. In addition, they are pathological ignoramuses.
Yes, every student taking music appreciation knows about Borodin and Hartman's painting. Afterwards a gate was built in Kiev in honor of Borodin's masterpiece.
@@moriahjacobs6131 You have mixed up, this music was written by Mussorgsky. The real name of this piece of music is "Bogatyr Gate". The Hartman Gate project was never implemented. There are no monuments or gates dedicated to Borodin or Mussorgsky in Kiev. Both composers lived in St. Petersburg and have never been to Kiev.
@@ОльгаГофман-о8у the Golden Gates was built after Mussourgsky' s death. There is also a graffiti door in the city that is called the great gate in commemoration. I was traveling to Ukraine this year, but that's on hold...
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"He maybe be a King, but Lawler is a snake in the grass if you think he is going fight fair. And take what I said with a grain of salt, Ladies and Gentlemen." - Jim Ross
I really want to thank you, TheWickedNorth , for putting together your great channel. It's been quite helpful to me as I'm taking a Music Appreciation class. :-)
Duuuuude. Animusic was such a weird, random, abstract selection of different works put into animations. It was a big part of my childhood. This was my dads favorite because he was a trumpet player, and I can totally see it now. I can’t quite explain how I feel about animusic but it was definitely good.
Just to provide a bit of a historical perspective. The great gates of Kyiv was a design /sketch made by Hartmann as part of a contest to built a gate to honor the Russian tzar Alexander II after surviving an assassination attempt. Mussorgsky was a Russian composer and composed the piece after seeing the painting. The great gate of Kyiv doesn't exist, it was never built. The golden gate does exist and was built in the 11th century. This piece of wonderful music has nothing to do with the people of Ukraine and everything with an ode of Mussorgsky to his friend Hartmann.
@@freekolafdegroot2776: Music doesn't have to be approved by the composer for a certain occasion. Britain used Beethoven's Fifth during WWII. A German composer? And the US extensively broadcast Shostakovich's 7th Symphony. None of those works were intended to support the British or the Americans. They were simply adopted for the cause. Keep in mind that the finale to Pictures is supremely heroic in nature and does have Kyiv in the title. I'm good with adopting it for this cause. If the Ukrainian people don't want to associate with it, that is their choice. And I'll respect that.
I can literally see the gates opening (the size of Imperial entrance in Aya Sofia or San Giovanni in Laterano) and imperial/royal entourage entering. Majestic music!
"From Memphis Tennessee, he is The King of Wrestling. The King of Memphis. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, WWE Hall of Famer, Jerry 'The King' Lawler!"
Great Gate of Kiev is tremendously like the depth and poignancy of O How A Rose Eer Bloometh. I first heard it on Leonard Bernsteins Symphony one Saturday evening in 1966. For 56 years, the melody never lost its majesty to me.
I played this 40 years ago in orchestra, and can still remember what my movements were. I played violin.
Me too and it was one of my favorites-Hey Putin Russians are cool too.
shop99er I played this last year
I'm playing this now I play bass
Our school orchestra played this. Considering the oldest player was 13 I reckon we did a pretty good job. At the age of 63 I'm still in touch with some of those musicians. Its not a piece you forget in a hurry. I was a flautist in those days.
shop99er I'll play it in Milan on 8th April... wish me good luck!😄😄
I just want to share something. This song played on my way home from the hospital on the day my son was born almost two years ago. It perfectly encapsulates the emotion I felt that day and it still moves me to tears whenever I hear it. The wonder of fatherhood, life and love is magnified by this work of divine art.
Hope you've stopped crying bro
This music is so powerful, that even Jerry 'The King' Lawler had to make this his intro when he was on WWF.
before him, King Harley Race
Actually, it was Harley Race when he was king and used that piece for his entrance. Later, it was Haku in 1988, then Hacksaw Jim Duggan in 1989, Macho Man Randy Savage (using his own theme), and finally Jerry Lawler in 1993.
It was looped strangely at one part, though. Having said that, it was done very well.
@@Rlotpir1972 you sure know your WWF history.
yeah, that's not a reason why this music is so powerful.
Jerry the king of nothing is a fake and he's not even fun.
A few years ago I did a 250km bike ride. This came on my playlist as I was getting to the top of the last real mountain and it was raining heavily. Truly one of the most magical moments of my life.
Still awesome after all these years😊😊
In my high school orchestra we'd play this at the very end of the senior graduation ceremonies. Finally after 4 years I was able to walk the graduation and hear this song as I exited high school and took my first steps into the unknown.
Pretty sure it was Pomp and Circumstance and not The Great Gate of Kiev. Pomp and Circumstance is known as the graduation song.
@@greekmonkey9790 hahahahah There you go but it would have been interesting hahahaha
They had both pomp and circumstance and this at ours.
We did play pomp and circumstance on repeat while everyone grabbed their diplomas but we'd cap off the graduations with this song.
This song is much better than Pomp and Circumstance. Pomp and Circumstance is a stupid song.
Thank you Mussorgsky for composing this magnificent piece and TNO devs for introducing me to it.
Thank also Ravel for orchestating it
Can you tell the name of that song ?
Tno Devs 🍆🍆🍆
When does it play?(what country/event)
I can't help crying every time I listen to it, it's so epic, beautiful and powerful
Check out Emerson Lake and Palmer's version. Greg Lake wrote lyrics for that version. It is so powerful and epic.
and check out the version from Isao Tomita. When I hear it, I get goosebumps and almost start crying because it's so sensitive.
This song was used not just by wwe but also by Michael Jackson during his history world tour
Was the reason, the song History got changed after the first pressing of the Album
we never use words like majestic or breathtaking in our everyday conversation. until we hear this, or see places like Alaska.
T. Alaska resident
"Nice to see you back, Banana Nose, because I hate seeing your front!" -Jerry "the King" Lawler
"The One thing that hadn't gotten smaller was that big mouth of yours" -Lance Russell
40% comments : This great masterpiece brings tears to my eyes...
60% comments :
J E R R Y. T H E. K I N G L A W L E R !!!
10% comments:
TNO Stalina Komi moment.
@@maxlin200 Me: Adoring fan of Cliff.
Harley Race and Haku for me!!
The real succession of the WWF crown:
•King. Harley. Race
•King Kaku
•Macho King
•Hacksaw King Duggan
...that's it. No more king-wannabes
1% Michael Jackson history tour
Flat-out the single most _majestic_ piece of music ever written. Others may be more bombastic, more powerful, or more thrilling, but for the sheer essence of MAJESTY, nothing touches this.
@Voracious Reader everyone knows it's an opinion mate
Yes, this is as perfect a piece of music as ever was written, and Ravel's orchestration is brilliant.
I played 2nd chair trombone with the Melbourne (FL) High School bands from '64-'67. This fabulous work still stirs my heart like it did then.
@@steveberry515 Yes and given the darkness that is coming for the city this composition has become more majestic and poignant .
"When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness"
- Svetlana Stalina
Ah, another TNO fan 😌
I hope they can play this again in peace open air in Kiev
Do you think putin sleeps to this
yes awesome tune
They will
Only in occupied ukraine
Btw. Let's show support by using the Ukrainian spelling "Kyiv".
Currently, Jerry "The King" Lawler still uses this theme song.
I’m the type of guy who walks around the house naked when no ones home and says ‘Alexa , play the great gates of Kiev!”....
I still remember this from music appreciation in college. Those giant wooden wheels turning. Unforgettable.
Doing so now!!! Lmaof
@@jasonpaul82 Great minds
Wish I was there..... 😀
Very relevant right now, as Russian troops are getting closer to Kyiv....
The World is watching, hoping their gates will stand this ruthless attack.
if and when they win against Russia, they should blare this in triumph
@@drizzlysquid1732 it could happen.
So. What's up? @@spmoran4703
Only one name comes in mind when i hear this 👇
Jerry “The King” Lawler
We played Pictures at an Exhibition my first season in the marching band, so it always has a special place in my heart. I distinctly remember shedding a couple of tears while playing this one, and thinking "I can't believe us clumsy, goofy middle and high school kids are actually making these sounds". I am clinging hard to that association right now, and trying not to wonder what will happen to Kiev... 💔
А что было с Белградом, Багдадом, Газой, ты задавался вопросом, тупая русофобская тварь?
This is indeed a phenomenal piece. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Ravel who orchestrated Pictures which was composed by Mussorgsky for solo piano. Perhaps Rimsky-Korsakov also orchestrated it but I believe it is Ravel's that is the more famous and more often performed.
bcing75 you're right
Wow I never knew that
Yup
Exquisite....
The piano version is inordinately challenging.
I finally found the song that's part of Michael Jackson's "History" song.
And of course I found it during these times. :(
Wholesome Stalina Komi moment
Based and CentristPilled
When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign bllindness.
Gong, cymbals, bass drum, tympani, chimes… a percussionist's dream. One of the greatest orchestral pieces. Extra fortissimo everyone!
GIVE EM HELL UKRAINE! 🤘
"Everyday, create your HIStory."
-Michael Jackson
"Once you have gained sight, it's impossible to feel blindness"
- Svetlana Stalina
tno reference
The Iron Lady Triumphs!
who cames from Michael Jackson's HIStory (Song)
I did but I didn't
Just to provide a bit of a historical perspective. The great gates of Kyiv was a design /sketch made by Hartmann as part of a contest to built a gate to honor the Russian tzar Alexander II after surviving an assassination attempt. Mussorgsky was a Russian composer and composed the piece after seeing the painting. The great gate of Kyiv doesn't exist, it was never built. The golden gate does exist and was built in the 11th century. This piece of wonderful music has nothing to do with the people of Ukraine and everything with an ode of Mussorgsky to his friend Hartmann.
Correct.
You are absolutely right! Reading other comments, I started to feel sick. I hate it when people mix politics with art. In addition, they are pathological ignoramuses.
Yes, every student taking music appreciation knows about Borodin and Hartman's painting. Afterwards a gate was built in Kiev in honor of Borodin's masterpiece.
@@moriahjacobs6131 You have mixed up, this music was written by Mussorgsky. The real name of this piece of music is "Bogatyr Gate". The Hartman Gate project was never implemented. There are no monuments or gates dedicated to Borodin or Mussorgsky in Kiev. Both composers lived in St. Petersburg and have never been to Kiev.
@@ОльгаГофман-о8у the Golden Gates was built after Mussourgsky' s death. There is also a graffiti door in the city that is called the great gate in commemoration. I was traveling to Ukraine this year, but that's on hold...
Ladies and gentlemen... please welcome WWE Hall Of Famer..JERRY THE KING LAWLER!!!!
I’ll always associate this with Jerry Lawler. The greatest ever announcer/wrestler alive today.
Why is that chromatic line so gorgeous?!?! I’ve never heard horns project that much!!! 4:25
They’re pushing their souls through their horns.
Everyone with ears and emotions can tell when the brass are spending their souls on their sound.
ウクライナに平和を
Please don’t deny credit to Ravel. Mussorgsky composed it for piano solo only. Ravel wrote the orchestration.
Ravel conposed this twenty after Borodin died. The composer sadly never got to hear this rendition of his piano masterpiece. I like both!
The Adoring fan at Dive Rock, anyone??????
MR. Bucket 2006 memories
Yesss
YES
Holy fuck i didnt realize this was the song but YESSS
Yes sirrr
Pertinent today.
michael jackson history tour 😍
4:28 NANI KORE?
xRAFAEL JOKERx OMG I’m surprised that Nani Kore is known by people overseas 4:32
NAAAAAANNNNNIIIIIIII KOOOOORRRREEEEE
oh god that is in fact nani kore..... gosh darn it.... this piece is ruined in my mind forever now
I’m listening to this inn honour of Ukraine and their great gates and there not opening for Vladimir putin
I walked down the aisle at my wedding to this
That's awesome
You deserve it, as you are The King Of Wrestling...
And marriages
What a majestic/timid piece of music.The peace. The grandiosity. The means of modern transmission: ELP. Heard it in '72. Loved it since.
It's splendid grandiosity indeed. Ironic that this was composed by someone who's first name is Modest.
"Ten Four" on EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER ❗🎶 😊
The russian iron lady moment.
This majestic piece should be played every day worldwide now until the end of Big Brother Putin.
ironically this song was written by a Russian dude who served in the Imperial Russian Guard xDDD
This is written to praise the Russian Empire
This master piece still thrills me everytime I hear it.
🙏🏾🇺🇦🙏🏾
R.I.P. Adoring fan from oblivion
BY AZURA BY AZURA BY AZURA
Giulio Roberto Its the grand champion I can't believe it's you standing here next to me
Aw gee
Today - I am Ukrainian
President Z: yo Putin you get why this music is so beautiful?
Putin: I don’t get it.
Z: Exactly, and you never will.
“The following contest, is a Table match. The only way to win this match, is to place your opponent through a table. On the way to the ring, from Memphis Tennessee, weighing 245 pounds, Jerry The King Lawler!” - Howard Finkel
"He maybe be a King, but Lawler is a snake in the grass if you think he is going fight fair. And take what I said with a grain of salt, Ladies and Gentlemen." - Jim Ross
"JR...I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong!!". --Jerry Lawler
I really want to thank you, TheWickedNorth , for putting together your great channel. It's been quite helpful to me as I'm taking a Music Appreciation class. :-)
You're very welcome.. helping just one person makes it all worth it.
I have this on CD but to lazy to get if and play it. More fun searching for great music!
45% of the comments:War on Ukraine and Russia
45% of the comments:Jerry the King Lawler
10% of the comments: Actually talk about how good the song is
thank man
wær!!! ÿęä
-100% of the comments: TNO Stalina
lady of steel
This song is so good that animusic used it. Michael jackson used it and much more. Legendary🤩
Duuuuude. Animusic was such a weird, random, abstract selection of different works put into animations. It was a big part of my childhood. This was my dads favorite because he was a trumpet player, and I can totally see it now. I can’t quite explain how I feel about animusic but it was definitely good.
Finally someone who knew this was from a Micheal Jackson song
I'm in tears... one of the greatest finale ever
Hope you've stopped crying bro
Anyone listening to this after the invasion started?
No
Yes, why not? It's not as though he fought for the Nazi's in WW2 like the bottom half of Ukraine did!
I just don't want to carry a turn table and record with me everywhere I go
@@yung_durtposeur
@@enginebeer6755 the Soviet regime killed more people than the Nazis. They are the worser of two evils.
May Kyiv and Ukraine ever be as glorious as this piece
They will be.
@@spmoran4703 and they are
@@dougr.2398 Of course.
Kiev.
Fuck 'em, they now reap what they have sown.
When the music comes back in at 3:15 just...chills, man
May Kyiv survive this Russian invasion
Svetlana Stalina’s Komi
yes
Puppies
Trish Stratus 😂
Wth
Long live to the king Jerry Lawler
Kyiv stands strong
STALINA MOMENT
Komi komi komi komi
based
Making his way to the ring form Memphis Tennesse WWE Hall of Famer Jerry the King Lawler!
Jerry the King
This was Michael Jackson's History Tour intro
How many here from Jerry Lawler???
Me
Almost everyone, a big majority.
Another great example of Mussorgsky's genius. Listen to how majestic he makes the music sound at 3:14.
… and Ravel’s
When you heard this in the late 90s, you knew commentary was gonna slap-
@tailspin37 John, I'm very glad you enjoy the channel and the music.
Play this when Russia surrenders.
*The sovereign mandate*
...Where are the Stalina comments? Where are the obnoxious TNO references? H-h-have you broken Vyatka's Law???
I think we should start a tradition to stand for this work when it is performed in honor of Ukraine's epic struggle.
Or even play this as Putin is trying to 1968 the dreams of Ukraine.
@@davidrivera9743 are you referring to prague?
Russian composer
Just to provide a bit of a historical perspective. The great gates of Kyiv was a design /sketch made by Hartmann as part of a contest to built a gate to honor the Russian tzar Alexander II after surviving an assassination attempt. Mussorgsky was a Russian composer and composed the piece after seeing the painting. The great gate of Kyiv doesn't exist, it was never built. The golden gate does exist and was built in the 11th century. This piece of wonderful music has nothing to do with the people of Ukraine and everything with an ode of Mussorgsky to his friend Hartmann.
@@freekolafdegroot2776: Music doesn't have to be approved by the composer for a certain occasion. Britain used Beethoven's Fifth during WWII. A German composer? And the US extensively broadcast Shostakovich's 7th Symphony. None of those works were intended to support the British or the Americans. They were simply adopted for the cause.
Keep in mind that the finale to Pictures is supremely heroic in nature and does have Kyiv in the title. I'm good with adopting it for this cause. If the Ukrainian people don't want to associate with it, that is their choice. And I'll respect that.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the WWE Hall of Famer, Jerry "The King" Lawler,..
Can’t hear this without thinking of Jerry the king lawler, Haku and King Harley Race
And Michael Jackson
I can literally see the gates opening (the size of Imperial entrance in Aya Sofia or San Giovanni in Laterano) and imperial/royal entourage entering. Majestic music!
"From Memphis Tennessee, he is The King of Wrestling. The King of Memphis. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome, WWE Hall of Famer, Jerry 'The King' Lawler!"
I played this 2 years ago in my youth orchestra. I was co-concert master and the entire Pictures At An Exhibition was so fun.
fuck I wish I got to play pictures at an exhibition at my school when we played this song, I would've loved playing that trumpet solo.
2:42 always gives me chills.
"COME ON DOWN JERRY THE KING LAWLER!"
Now, all you humanoids, get up off your seats and bow down to the King of professional wrestling, King Harley Race!!!!
BAH GAWD, IS JERRY "THE KING" LAWLER!!!
Today, this has become more relevant overnight (Russian troops bombing the city of Kiev)
TNO Stalina Komi, anyone?
Michael Jackson HIStory
Who's here from Animusic Cathedral Pictures?
A man of culture I see, I had all animusic movies on dvd.
Yesss
OBLIVION EVERYBODY! THE PERFECT GAME!!!
I’m playing this for my orchestra comp tomorrow
pls precise in the description that this is the Ravel's orchestral version
In honor of Kyiv and their struggle against Russian tyranny ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Propaganda much bro? How many times did you vote for biden?
Lol
In honor of Kiev the ancient heart of Russia!
See my contretemps below.
Ist literally a russian composer
Great Gate of Kiev is tremendously like the depth and poignancy of O How A Rose Eer Bloometh. I first heard it on Leonard Bernsteins Symphony one Saturday evening in 1966. For 56 years, the melody never lost its majesty to me.
- King Haku
- Jerry Lawler
- Harley Race
"Making his way to the ring: Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Weighing in at 243lb. Jerry "The King" Lawler!"
Is it right or wrong to listen to this today?
It is right.
It's absolutely right! Although Mussourgsky was Russian, this speaks to the greatness of Khyv.
Very appropriate and Patriotic for the
Ukrainians ❗
Mussourgsky was a composer not a filthy Poletician
It has never been wrong.
I’ll always know this as Jerry the king Lawler
Es lebe Kiew und alle Ukrainer!
In the ring from Memphis, Tennessee weighing in at 243 lbs, Jerry "The King" Lawler!!
Based iron lady
This piece goes out to all the fighters of Kyiv! May the Ukarainians beat the Russian Bear !!!
There are two nationalities right now: Russian and Ukrainian.