Christmas In The City 2022-2023 Slideshow

Make sure to change the Settings to watch in HD (1080p).
THE IDEA behind the slideshow and the video: (This idea is more prominent on the video, but the slideshow has some of it, as well. I have not uploaded the video yet.)
Modest Mussorgsky wrote an orchestral composition; and monumental piano solo version which gave Barry Douglas the win and gold medal in the 1986 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. Mussorgsky titled his work “Pictures at an Exhibition”, based on a set of paintings by his artist and architect friend Viktor Hartman. There is a “Promenade” theme that runs throughout the composition. Imagine a set of paintings on a sidewalk and onlookers walking and admiring each one of the paintings as they stroll from one painting to the next. As the admirers stop in front of a painting, a melody that has to do with that painting plays. As the crowd moves to the next painting, the recurring melody (Promenade motif) plays. The whole thing culminates at The Great Gate of Kiev. The same idea was used by the Czech composer Smetana with his “The Moldau” from Má vlast (My… Fatherland?, Motherland?, Country?). As the river runs its course through the countryside, the towns, a wedding, etc. are featured through music as the river rushes onward.
Music licensed from Epidemic Sound
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