Best of the Web This Week

Hello! and Welcome to this week's review of the  Best of the Web This Week.  After gathering over 800 photographs, once again I was tasked with sorting and sifting to find the finest examples of the art in the male form for this week's review.  This week there are callow youth, hot as blazes firefighters, hunky models and mature men in various stages of undress and poses, all set to trip your trigger as you scroll leisurely down the page.  As always, shadow and light plays a great part in my selections to add drama to an already outstanding composition.  I think, once again you will be pleased with the results of my efforts.

To accompany your tour of the male art on display, your Saturday Soundtrack this week is the Great Music Tour of many venues featuring the works of several different composers. We open with the 1994 performance of Beethoven's Symphony Number 5 with Kurt Masur conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. From New York we move across the pond to Amsterdam for this 1949 performance by the Conertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Eduard van Beinum of Chopin's Piano Concerto Number 1 in E Minor, Opus 11 featuring Alexander Barailowsky as the Piano Soloist. Next we move onto the continent to Vienna for Mozart's Little G Minor Symphony Number 25 with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Next we head to Germany where the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Munchinger gives a performance of Handel's Water Music Suites. We stay in Germany as the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jaap van Zweden accompanies Sara Chang's performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor. Then we travel down to sunny Italy for the Concerto for trumpet, three oboes, bassoon and basso continuo in C major by Tomaso Albinoni with a performance by Symphonia Perusina conducted by Paolo Pollastri. Then we head back to the Great Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for the Edward Gardner and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra performance of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dance Number 45. Heading back across the pond we join Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic accompanying Leonard Rose in a performance of the Cello Concerto in A Minor, Opus 129 by Robert Schumann.  Jetting back to Amsterdam for the Sunday Morning Concert featuring The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky with Jaap von Zweden and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Then it is off to the Mozartium in Salzburg for the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra's performance of Cello Concerto in B Flat Major by Luigi Boccherini featuring Xavier Phillips on Solo Cello. We end our tour back in New York in Paul Hall at the Julliard School for the recital performance of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata by 13 year old Tiffany Poon in November 2010. 

I hope you enjoy both the musical and the illustrated tours.  Thanks for spending part of your weekend here at Nichevo, we will see you again on Monday.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!