it all started as a joke through this picture of Khachaturian staring back (after all these yrs i would have guessed to be in dismay) at Igor S.

Hence, me need to come clean:

Stravinsky -- The https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐦" title="Vogel" aria-label="Emoji: Vogel">

[Valeri Gergiev (my favorite)/Vienna Philharmonic (eminent)/Salzburg, 2000]

Whence it took a life of its own as i sought to teach what music i knew. (Btw, this piece is famous in my ears for being the absolute FASTEST to the main rondo, which would be absolutely magnificent, were it not that it gets parroted toward ungodly excess thereafter.)

Before the last video& #39;s relevance but present throughout was me search for Aram& #39;s arkhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗻" title="Fudschijama" aria-label="Emoji: Fudschijama">.

[Violin: the beast David Oistrakh (top 5 all-time hands down); Conducted by Khachaturian himself / Moscow Radio SO, 1965]

[authentic photo signature, which i found when me Grandma passed.]

As you may have noticed from the above thehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎻" title="Violine" aria-label="Emoji: Violine">concerti of Max Bruch are introduced early to one& #39;s repertoire. In turn i present to you yet another Khachatryan (var. spelling), the present day pride of native https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇦🇲" title="Flagge von Armenien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Armenien">classicists, the youngest ever winner of the J. Sibeliushttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎻" title="Violine" aria-label="Emoji: Violine">competition,

So if Bruch& #39;s https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎻" title="Violine" aria-label="Emoji: Violine">c. is relatively easy, Sibelius& #39; is v. hard. Evoking thehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❄️" title="Schneeflocke" aria-label="Emoji: Schneeflocke">ethereal Scandinavian dawn, & what won him that most prestigious competition (held every 5 yrs often not even grantinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥇" title="Goldmedaille" aria-label="Emoji: Goldmedaille">), here& #39;s Sergey& #39;shttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍞" title="Brot" aria-label="Emoji: Brot">&https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧈" title="Butter" aria-label="Emoji: Butter">, w/ thehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇱" title="Flagge der Niederlande" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Niederlande">Radio PO, Stanislav K. conducting, Concertgebouw, & #39;19