Tama Matheson
speaker
770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Tama Matheson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love this, palinode.
Palinode, a retraction, as it were, is that Rubinstein himself became one of the great interpreters of a concerto in his life.
So our first judgments are often erroneous.
Yes, I'm glad I didn't.
It's become a staple of the repertoire.
No, I mean, I wrote many operas.
I wrote more operas than ballets.
There are two great successors I've had, Evgeny Onegin and the Queen of Spades, Pikova Edama.
They're the two that remain in the repertoire.
In Russia, they still play Cherovitsky and Voevoda and Mazepa, but they're not well known, I think, here in the West.
I wrote my first ballet, Swan Lake, I think in 1876, 1875.
I had long, long to try my hand at ballet music as I rather fancied myself as a dancer.
In fact, I was quite nimble on my feet.
But unfortunately, the stories for ballet are always rather silly.
And Swan Lake was no exception.
Although I did find something intriguing in the duality of the black and white swans.
Good and bad, virtue and vice, conformity and rebellion.
I felt it was like the two sides of myself sort of eternally clashing in the struggle for meaning.
It played once and never played again.
I hear it's been played ever since.
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