I break my silence
 

1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job) I work as an Art Director... And dance... Street mostly...

2. Where are you from? Sweden... GOTHenburgh...

3. Who is your favorite author? Dorte Tveiti: He stole my childhood...

4. What is your favorite film? The Entity (1981) with Barbara Hershey...

5. What music do you want played at your wedding? Wedding.?!

6. At your funeral? "Pathetique", Pjotr Ilitj Tjajkovskij...

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die? Like a whisper...

8. What kind of casket would you want? None... I want my ashes to be spread in the icy wind from a mountain top...

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit? The wine red flax dress i wear on my profile pic...

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid? I never got to be a child...

11. What's your favorite band? I don't have one, but i listen allot to Tjajkovskij...

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major? Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication...

13. Why did you join? Why not..?

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender? Female

Welcome. I feel kind of sorry for Tjajkovskij, because in America the only time he's remembered is at Christmas when "The Nutcracker" is on educational tv.

*****stray pointless story******
The department store where I worked had a big display of animated battery-powered music boxes set up for Christmas. Some of them played parts of the Nutcracker Suite. All day long dopey customers were turning them off and on..... Oooh, look, ooooh, look..... that was probably the only time in their lives they'd heard any music better than "Achey Breaky Heart" and it went zooming right past them, as they bought the Elvis Santa Blue Christmas music boxes.

His music is not dead nevertheless. There are still some that revere him, as we can see in this thread. I consider him the best composer that has ever existed.

Welcome nordic_ice.

Is Gothenburgh the same as Göteborg?
I hear that the SKKF in Göteborg (The Swedish Cemetery and Cremation Association) supports the excavation and restoration or preservation of Swedish cemeteries. I can't find out much more though, because most of the websites are in Swedish. I would love to hear about these very old cemeteries, as they are much older than anything in the United States. If you would please give me the names of some of the cemeteries in Sweden I would be grateful.

Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata would be fitting for a funeral, now I will have to find and listen to Tchaikovsky's Pathetique. I am only familiar with his famous works. I agree that he wrote very beautiful music during his short life. Why do some of humanity's best minds die so young? Like Keats. (sigh)
Well to me, 53 is young (I'm 50).

Glad to meet you.

Is that so? When he was alive he was very appreciated in The States. He conducted several consert tours and was awarded the title Doctor of Honor (or what ever you would call it in english) at The Cambrige University.

The Nutcracker may be his most famous ballet, but personally I think The Sleeping Beauty is the most wonderful.

Now, you might think I'm a bit odd listening to Tjajkovskij, but let me put it like this... when I dance 'til I drop I don't do it to mr Pjotr's music, but when I listen to music, I prefer his work.

I TOTALLY agree... But you already knew that... =)

Here's a bunch:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...&oldid=2829980

I hope you can use it. Clic on the blue links, there you can find pictures. It's all in Swedish though, weard that they don't see the global value of our very old graveyards... ;-)

Yes, do that! It's a masterpiece.

Just nine days after the first performance of his Sixth Symphony, Pathétique, in 1893, in St Petersburg, Tjajkovskij died. Until recent years it had been generally assumed that he died of cholera after drinking contaminated water. However, a controversial theory explains that Tjajkovskij committed suicide by consuming arsenic (symptoms from arsenical poisoning have similarity with cholera) following an attempt to blackmail him over his homosexuality.

Some believe that he consciously wrote Pathétique as his own Requiem. In the development section of the first movement, the rapidly progressing evolution of the transformed first theme suddenly "shifts into neutral" in the strings, and a rather quiet, harmonized chorale emerges in the trombones. The trombone theme bears absolutely no relation to the music that preceded it, and none to the music which follows it. It appears to be a musical "non sequitur", an anomaly — but it is from the Russian Orthodox Mass for the Dead, in which it is sung to the words: "And may his soul rest with the souls of all the saints."

Tchaikovsky was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St Petersburg.