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The National Gallery of Iceland is a small art museum in Reykjavik, containing a collection of 19th and 20th century Icelandic art, along with periodic outside and traveling exhibitions. The museum was originally founded in 1884 in Copenhagen. In 1987, the collection was moved to its current building along Reykjavikurtjorn Lake. It's a lovely, light filled building and worth a visit, which will take you about an hour or so. Our conclusion was late 1800 and early 1900 Icelandic art...not that great. Some of it dreadful. But contemporary Icelandic art is now focusing on a host of challenges facing the island: post-2008 economic issues, environmental issues, and development issues especially as Iceland becomes more of a tourist destination. The museum is several blocks away from the main tourist areas and on a Friday afternoon we had the place almost to ourselves. -
I'm probably not alone in having dis-favorite musical compositions, i.e., pieces of music that regardless of their quality I'd really rather never hear again. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Ravel's Bolero. Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". The Canon in D by the fellow whose name reminds me of Taco Bell. Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Smetana's Moldau. In fact, I used to think of Smetana as "the Moldau guy". Then one day, about three years ago, I stumbled across Smetana's piano trio, and was so stunned by it I quickly bought four or five different performances on CD, and for a while there I was listening to it at least once a day. One of the key characteristics of dis-favorite pieces is over-exposure, and yet after hearing Smetana's piano trio more than a hundred times (I figure), I find it as thoroughly ravishing and emotionally satisfying as I did after two or three hearings. As I've mentioned before, I love Romantic chamber music, and this piece is perhaps as extravagantly Romantic as anything ever written. The late, lamented Beaux Arts Trio: 1st movement: 2nd movement: 3rd movement:-
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- Bedřich Smetana
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