Outside Cultural Event 4: Tchaikovsky X Drake
For the final outside cultural event, we went into the city for a performance with the BSO, three singers, and a rapper. Initially, we were really only told the title of the performance, Tchaikovsky X Drake. I was a bit skeptical: how do you combine music that is so different? I was also excited. As a classical musician and hip-hop fan, I was interested to see how one would merge artists that are separated by almost a century. Moreover, Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite classical composers and one of the main reasons I fell in love with music. While learning his famous Violin Concerto in D major, my violin teacher told me about his life, which was pretty depressing. He was severely oppressed due to his homosexuality while living in Russia and had lost a lot of family from an early age. While these aspects of his life are definitely translated in his works, his music also has an air of pride, strength, and passion. Especially playing his pieces, you can truly get a feel for what he tr...
