@Maimas2 to Today I LearnedEnglish • 5 months agoTIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square25arrow-up1252arrow-down112
arrow-up1240arrow-down1external-linkTIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.en.wikipedia.org@Maimas2 to Today I LearnedEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square25
minus-squareDrunemetonlinkEnglish24•5 months agoVery true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkEnglish16•edit-25 months agoYou may not know who Rimsky-Koraskov was, but you have almost certainly heard Flight of the Bumblebee and probably would recognize at least the opening of Scheherazade if you heard it and he composed both.
minus-squarebizarrolandlinkfedilink15•5 months agoI don’t know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki
minus-squareGinny [they/she]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoFor those who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
minus-squareJojo, Lady of the WestlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoBorodin is a very Tolkieny name. It’s also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so
Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.
You may not know who Rimsky-Koraskov was, but you have almost certainly heard Flight of the Bumblebee and probably would recognize at least the opening of Scheherazade if you heard it and he composed both.
I don’t know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki
For those who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Borodin is a very Tolkieny name. It’s also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so