Today is the birthday of Aram Khachaturian. You know, the guy who wrote that frenetic tune that makes you want to spin plates on the tops of sticks.
Here he is, conducting (and highly-decorated), with Mstislav Rostropovich the soloist in his “Concerto-Rhapsody”:
And – why not? – music for spinning plates, Liberace style:
PHOTO: The composer “cleaning up nice” for his special day
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