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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: MooseMom on July 07, 2014, 01:18:51 PM
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Name ONE song/piece of music you heard today. Where were you when you were listening to it?
"Sober" by Pink, and I was in my car on the way to the shops.
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Great idea!
Dancing Queen by ABBA, in my car from my iPhone.
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Wonderful idea!
During breakfast I listened to Jean Pierre Eustache (flute) and the Collegium Musicum de Paris (Collection Richesse Classique 1970's)
playing Antonio Vivaldi’s Six Concerti opus 10... very dreamy and just the right music to start my day ...
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"Song for Adam" by Jackson Browne. I was listening to my tunes while getting dressed. Makes me think of the old days.
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We had Radiohead on in the car and I was asking Blokey how my MiL was following the op to remove half her lung yesterday.
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For lunch I listened to “Italian Baroque Trumpet Concerti” composed by Francesco Maria Manfredini, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli and Tomasso Albioni...
... Joerg Faerber conducted the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra (one of my favourites)...
... and listening to this LP makes my essentially boring kidney-friendly diet almost feel like taking part at a wonderful banquet...
... especially with lighted candles ...and this music is a complete celebration of life ...
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"Breath of Life" by Florence and the Machine while I was mulching my beds. If any of you have seen "Snow White and the Huntsman", this was the song played during the closing credits.
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Today I listened to Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor and his Concerto for violin and oboe in D minor while I was in the kitchen preparing ingredients for a chicken curry I plan to make for dinner tonight. Then, as I was rinsing the basmati rice, I switched over to "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue.
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This morning I listened at first to Narciso Yepes playing the dreamy "Barockwerke fuer Gitarre" (Baroque Works for Guitar produced by Deutsche Grammophon) by J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Sylvius Weiss and Gaspar Sanz...
... and after that I listened to the sprightly Mandolin Quartet by Johann Hoffmann (Quartet for Mandolin, Violin, Viola and Lute in F Major)
and the very lively Mandolin quartet for Mandolin, Violin, Viola and Lute in A Major by Francesco Giovanni Giuliani... produced by "turnabout" from VOX Productions...
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I heard "Time in a bottle" by Jim Croce.... Reminded me of a friend's wedding in 1979.
:flower;
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Last night we had a bit of a binge watch of Game of Thrones, so the theme music is still bouncing around in my head.
Today I was planting some periwinkle in my back garden, and the house across the way was having a new roof installed. So much for peace and quiet in the garden! The roofers were listening to all sorts of music. I heard tracks from Bon Jovi and who I think may have been either Staind or Disturbed or some other band of that genre (which I happen to like).
We don't always get to choose the music we hear in our lives!
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We drove to the Mexican part of time to have lunch at our favorite seafood restaurant. It's just a small casual place, and we were the only "Anglos" there, so we knew we were getting authentic food. There were three older men complete with black vaquero hats and instruments, so today the music in my life was local and traditional mariachi, something about horses in Guadalajara, I think. :P
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XM Satellite Radio, 60s on 6. Listen to it all the time.
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Great idea!
Dancing Queen by ABBA, in my car from my iPhone.
We do home hemo and usually start treatments off by listening to the Music Choice channel on tv (solid gold oldies, 70's or swing). Since today was our "day off", we didn't have the tv on however, I love it whenever ABBA plays...especially Dancing Queen. And now it's going to stay in my head til tomorrow...
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From yesterday...
The national anthems of Germany and Argentina! It was the World Cup Final!
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"You and I" by One Direction..... I have a 12 year old daughter
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"You and I" by One Direction..... I have a 12 year old daughter
Sure you do....... :P
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"You and I" by One Direction..... I have a 12 year old daughter
That's ok, my wife and I have no children and are in our 40's, we attended a Katy Perry concert a few weeks ago, and enjoyed it. We clearly were not the target demographic. Also interesting to note that most family's had both spouses attending, I would have expect more mothers without fathers.
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I am listening to J. S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord and Two Sonatas for Violin and Basso composed around 1720.
Recorded in 1970 with instruments from the National Collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
The harpsichord was made by Johannes Duicken of Antwerp in 1745, the Viola by Barak Norman (London 1718)
and the Violin by John Marshall London 1759. The sound of these instruments is very authentic and wonderful ...
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Iolaire, I bet a Katy Perry concert would be quite the spectacle! Can you describe some of the best bits?
Kristina, we are fans of Rachel Barton Pine who performs on a violin that is not a Strad but was made by a contemporary whose name escapes me. Music played on instruments hundreds of years old have a special quality, and if you get to hear it live, it is quite a treat.
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Heard "Cupid" by Sam Cooke today -in my head. Love that song. Also love how Amy Whinehouse sang it. She was obviously very troubled but that voice of hers...
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Iolaire, I bet a Katy Perry concert would be quite the spectacle! Can you describe some of the best bits?
Kristina, we are fans of Rachel Barton Pine who performs on a violin that is not a Strad but was made by a contemporary whose name escapes me. Music played on instruments hundreds of years old have a special quality, and if you get to hear it live, it is quite a treat.
You have my curiosity up so, I am going to try and see if I can listen to any Rachel Barton Pine on the internet, maybe a youtube ??
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Iolaire, I bet a Katy Perry concert would be quite the spectacle! Can you describe some of the best bits?
Kristina, we are fans of Rachel Barton Pine who performs on a violin that is not a Strad but was made by a contemporary whose name escapes me. Music played on instruments hundreds of years old have a special quality, and if you get to hear it live, it is quite a treat.
You have my curiosity up so, I am going to try and see if I can listen to any Rachel Barton Pine on the internet, maybe a youtube ??
Found her! Wow! Just wow! I admit, this is not the kind of music that I am "into" BUT...sometimes like to listen to because it is entertaining and/or relaxing. I needed something relaxing tonite and found it! Rachel makes the violin dance or even call out to you. 'nuff said. I'm going back to the youtube of her now.
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Kristina, we are fans of Rachel Barton Pine who performs on a violin that is not a Strad but was made by a contemporary whose name escapes me. Music played on instruments hundreds of years old have a special quality, and if you get to hear it live, it is quite a treat.
Thanks MooseMom, I have been listening to Rachel Barton Pine playing the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor by Max Bruch with CityMusic Cleveland on October 20, 2012 (Youtube) and it is very impressive ! She certainly expresses deep feelings on her violin ...
I have also listened to SooMK's suggestion "Song for Adam" by Jackson Browne which is a wonderful tribute to an era...
It is most interesting what we can learn from each other ...
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Iolaire, I bet a Katy Perry concert would be quite the spectacle! Can you describe some of the best bits?
It had very strong pageantry, from an Egyptian/gladiator theme to start off with - including a "horse" that she rode around on comprised of a few people, near the end a valley girl theme, complete with an inflatable car that they drove/walked around the stage. I'd say there were eight plus unique themes each with their own costumes and backdrop on a pyramid shaped screen (THE PRISMATIC WORLD TOUR). There were giant balloons that were dragged around, a few people where pulled up on wires, including a segment with the guitarists on wires with fireworks coming out of their guitars.
But the most fun segment was cartoon cats around LA going to a film opening for some cat related movie - it was narrated by a rapper, sometimes I hear that in music and this was the first time I got it in context with the visuals - her fan club is Katy's Kats or something so that segment was for her fans - it just was fun an entertaining before it went into a song with everyone dressed up as cats and one mouse...
Obviously her songs are upbeat and it was enjoyable.
She took a lot of time to talk to the audience, with some of the focus on being a strong/empowered girl/woman, she had a comment along the lines with Barack as president means that all of you could now also be president (I felt she was talking to her young girl fan base, who in 20-30 years will be long past the newness of non-white-male leadership). Two or three lucky people got selfies with her that she took.
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Iolaire, thanks for telling us more about the concert! I can visualize it, and it makes me smile. I bet you all had a great time. It sounds like so much fun. What made you go to her concert? Have you been a longtime fan of hers, or did you see the concert advertised and attended just on a lark?
About Rachel Barton Pine...maybe some of you found this story if you googled her, but if not, here is something that makes her even more compelling.
She was a child prodigy. She was studying and playing professionally here in the Chicago area in her teens, and one day she was getting on a train with her (expensive and historic) violin strapped in a special case on her back. It was crowded on the platform, and somehow she got positioned in such a way that when the doors closed, her violin was inside the train but her body was on the outside, and she was dragged along the tracks. One leg was severed and she had other truly horrific injuries that I won't go into here. My husband is an attorney, and when this happened years ago, he had access to the testimony that her doctors gave in court when the Chicago Transit Authority was being sued (at the time, there were no CTA guards who were specifically supposed to look up and down the platform before the doors were closed).
When she testified, she said that "no man will ever want me", and with descriptions of her injuries and the years of rehab (which will never end) she has in front of her, she was awarded a multi-million dollar settlement and the CTA now has personnel making sure that the doors don't close on passengers.
We have been attending her concerts for well over a decade. When we first saw her, she came out on crutches and was in obvious discomfort, and this almost a decade after the accident. Each time we saw her, she was just that little bit more mobile. Finally, she was able to walk out on stage with no crutches and able to carry her instrument by herself.
The last time we saw her was in a small, intimate setting; she was playing in this beautiful small church out in the country to help raise funds for the town's renovation of their historic train station. She had been married for a couple of years by then,and her agent let slip to us that she was pregnant!!!! She now has a beautiful little girl.
Her career has now finally really taken off because now that she is physically in better shape (relatively), she is able to travel and perform abroad.
One amusing thing...she is also quite a rock chick. She is part of a heavy metal band called "Earthen Grave". We attended one of those concerts, and she was decked out in studded black leather playing her electric violin!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/arts/music/years-after-a-calamity-rachel-barton-pine-prospers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Iolaire, thanks for telling us more about the concert! I can visualize it, and it makes me smile. I bet you all had a great time. It sounds like so much fun. What made you go to her concert? Have you been a longtime fan of hers, or did you see the concert advertised and attended just on a lark?
My wife :-) But I'm listening to more and more pop music these days. I used to not really listen to music much at all but now I use it to drown out background noise at work and at the center.
I've been downloading the iTunes free song/s of the week for YEARS and have built up quite a collection of popular songs. Add Google's free music offerings and occasional Amazon free music and I find that I'm now listing to a lot of popular songs.
Also I find myself listing to a lot of dance/electronic/techno since its easy to zone out to without thinking about the lyrics.
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Ed Sheeran - I See Fire
http://youtu.be/2fngvQS_PmQ
Another singer my daughter has turned me on to.
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On my walk today, I listened to several tracks from "Dances from Terpsichore" by the German musician Michael Praetorius (c. 1571-1621). I love music from this time period. I've had this CD for quite some years.
But here's the funny thing. Did anyone see the HBO production "The Tudors"? Steamy but silly fun. Anyway, during many of the festival and/or dance scenes, imagine my surprise when I recognized much of the music playing in the background. Much of is was from this particular CD! I'd jump us and yell, "I know that music!" The unfortunate thing, though, is that Anne Boleyn was dead before Praetorius was even born, so someone didn't do their due diligence regarding the music. However, it was effective, anyway.
If you did see "The Tudors", you may know that Anne was played by Natalie Dormer. If you are a Game of Thrones fan, you might recognize her as Margery Tyrell. Just a bit of trivia for ya!
After Praetorius, I listed to some Lady Gaga.
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I also love the music of Michael Praetorius and the music of some of his comtemporaries like Heinrich Schuetz, Dietrich Buxtehude and Erasmus Widmann...
Their melodies have such a wonderful touch of a "happy innocence" ... I always think that J.S. Bach did well to study them all...
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"Listen to my Heart" by Nancy Lamott from our iTunes.
She had a great voice, but died quite young.
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Last night, I was watching The Colbert Report and heard Jon Batiste and Stay Human, and I thought it was just brilliant. I'm not really a jazz fan, but I loved this!
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/1ymccn/jon-batiste-and-stay-human----express-yourself-
I just smiled and smiled and smiled! Such joyous music!
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I was listening to the Flute concertos by Francois Devienne, Jaques-Christophe Naudet and Jacques Loeillet
and it is fascinating to notice the difference, how music was composed before the French Revolution (Naudet and Loeillet) and after (Devienne).
It is interesting that the French Revolution did not come about as a full-blown sudden expression, but as a result of the ideals of "Enlightment"...
... and it is fascinating to hear the huge difference expressed by composers of that particular time...
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During breakfast I was listening to "Treasures of the Baroque Era" played by the National Iranian Radio and Television Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Emil Tchakarov from Bulgaria in 1978. The orchestra was a result of the cultural initiative of the former Shah of Persia (Iran) and his family.
It is a wonderful LP with wonderfully played Baroque music and I wonder what these musicians are doing now...
... and whether or not they are still "allowed" to play Baroque music in Iran under the new regime ?
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One of my favorites is a CD "Memory" wind beneath my wings played by James Galway. He plays the flute and is backed up by the Galway symphonic orchestra. (From Ireland, of course, you already knew that).
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I have just listened (on youtube) to Johnny Halliday performing "Allumez le feu"
("light the fire"...Sometimes ... all it takes is one little spark to ignite the fire of perseverance...)
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When my gal was in the hospital,(giving birth to one of our children) I had called the local radio station to play: "Memories Are Made Of This" by Dean Martin
The actual details are fuzzy, but not the event. (Was 57 years ago)
Did set up everything so that there was a radio playing by her bed.
So she heard the announcer mention her name, and from 'whom', and played the song.
She loved it.
Sweet gal was tricky back in those days. She disliked hospitals almost as much as I disliked doctors.
So, she generally stalled me getting her to the hospital, until she would 'laugh' and say 'too late, Hon, now get busy', or words to that extent.
She pulled that on me for three (3) more birth events.
Guess, I'm a slow learner. Ha.
Used to actually listen to an opera platter. Am tone deaf , and music illiterate, yet found pleasure in
listening this type of music. Ran across names and some music from:
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653 – 1713).
Johann Pachelbel (1653 – 1706)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695).
Tomasso Giovanni Albinoni (1671 – 1751
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764)
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)
Faranelli (1705 – 1782)
Antonio Stradivarius (1644 – 1737) Pretty good violin maker whose instruments today all have their own names and sell for gazillions.
Lost that opera platter some where, along the years, due to the major moves made over the years.
Ah me, better close it off, as I'm off on a ramble here, again. Ha :oops;
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Thank you talker, for mentioning some of my favourite composers and musicians...
Mind you, I don’t know a lot about Monteverdi and Faranelli.
I have listened to some of Monteverdi's religious choirs and I was not very much taken... so I might have to give it more time...
...and I saw the portrait of Faranelli in the Royal College of Music. I felt I had to find out more about him, because during a concert at the Museum
I also studied his portrait with his very sad eyes and melancholic expression of his face and I wondered what it was all about...
...I am not too sure yet, what to make of “male sopranos” and I might have to give it a little bit more time as well...
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Today I have listened to the wonderful double-LP by Paul Jordan and his interpretation of Bach's "Orgelbuechlein"
played on the organ of the United Church on the Green, New Haven CT...
I mention this, because these days some "modern" non-believing organ players play Bach's wonderful compositions,
as if the players "want to sabotage" or "distort" Bach's humble and genuine Christin thoughts,
which Bach always displays in all his compositions without any fail....
Sometimes I get the feeling that some organ/piano players do not chose to share Bach's humble, genuine believes
and because of that, they seem to try and make fun of Bach's music by "distorting" his compositions one way or another...
... It is so refreshing and good to come across and listen to genuine organ players like Paul Jordan,
who play Bach in such a meditative way,that the listener feels very much uplifted...
... which is - by the way - exactly how Bach's compositions are meant to be understood...
... I very much admire the compositions by Bach and Haendel...
... Both composers can't really be compared, because they are both "on the same level":
... the only difference being that Bach's compositions are very meditative and introvert,
whereas Haendel's compositions are very much outgoing and extrovert...
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Ed Sheeran - I See Fire
http://youtu.be/2fngvQS_PmQ
Another singer my daughter has turned me on to.
My son went to school with Ed Sheeran (he comes from my hometown!)
I really like his music too have you heard Thinking out loud? I love this song 8)
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In the living years (mike and the mechanics)
Listen to the lyrics- very powerful
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In the living years (mike and the mechanics)
Listen to the lyrics- very powerful
Love the song, I loved the video when it first came out on MTV. For some reason tho, now I have Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" in my head. Go figure.
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He is one of my favourite singers with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves,
ranging from the soprano to bass registers and here he can be heard on youtube:
Иван Ребров - Очи черные.Ivan Rebroff - Dark Eyes (Live)
... and my favourite song which always cheers me up on a "rainy day" :
Ivan Rebroff - Poljuschko Polje (Cossack Patrol)
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Kristina, I'll look those up on YouTube!
Have you all been hearing that music that accompanies the commercial for Jeep Cherokee? That melody has been stuck in my brain for days now, and I've finally found out what it is. It's "Renegade" by XAmbassadors.
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For no particular reason except that I just listened to it in the car, and it's my favorite 10000 Maniacs song: The Painted Desert from In My Tribe (1987)
Note: I tend to focus more on lyrics than music. My favorite pop artist is probably Paul Simon. 10000 Maniacs is hit or miss for me, but I like this song a lot.
I like the narrative structure (impressions of received postcards, reminiscent of a one-sided phone call), the desert imagery (from the perspective of someone who isn't there but wants to be), the recurring question "Is/was a cactus blooming there?", and the plaintive tone captured in Natalie Merchant's singing. I'm left concluding that the singer is more deeply affected by the trip to the painted desert that she'll never make than the traveler, who has sent his abruptly ending trail of postcards and moved on with his life.
I just checked YouTube and did not like any of the live performances, so I would stick with the one from the album.
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I heard "Time in a bottle" by Jim Croce....
I sung a version of this with "slightly modified" lyrics when doing 24 hour collection as part of donor workup a few months back. (True story! I can't be the only one, right?)
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Here's one I did not listen to today, but I used to put it on repeat in my car during the weeks when I was still trying to absorb my daughter's diagnosis.
It's Willie Nelson's cover of Blue Skies (an Irving Berlin standard). Here's a Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZDwxnjG1g
I think Willie Nelson puts an unusual poignancy into a simple song with ostensibly happy lyrics. Particular when he sings "Blue days, all of them gone" you sense he's still feeling the pain of those days.
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Anything by George Thorogood.
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Kristina, I'll look those up on YouTube!
Have you all been hearing that music that accompanies the commercial for Jeep Cherokee? That melody has been stuck in my brain for days now, and I've finally found out what it is. It's "Renegade" by XAmbassadors.
Hello MooseMom,
I have just listened to "Renegade" by XAmbassadors on youtube
and it sounds quite inspiring :
... "Long live the pioneers
Rebels and mutineers
Go forth and have no fear..."
... that's just the spirit... !
Thanks for pointing it out to me...
Kristina. :grouphug;
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I was watching The Graham Norton Show last night on BBCAmerica, and one of the guests was Kylie Minogue. Now, I have to admit that I did watch Neighbors back in the time when she was on, so she has a kind of special place in my heart. So, I've been listening to "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head", or whatever that song was called.
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.... I am just listening on youtube to "Kamennoi Ostrow" played by Josef Lhevinne...
Josef Lhevinne is one of my favourite pianists and I have learned a lot from him because he not only had the "perfect touch"
but he had also the very best feeling for timing and tonality ... in short, he was not only one of the very the best pianists,
but one also can still learn such a lot from him by listening on Vinyl's (I have collected all the Vinyl's he produced) ... or on youtube ...
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Never get sick of listening to old 60/70 music
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A big fan of The Cat Empire, an Aus band with a message, occasionally I'll randomly look at Unsignedbandweb or youtube for inspiration.
Depending on the mood, anything from Tubular Bells, to Queen, Nick Cave to Madonna, Classical Rock to Metallica and AC/DC
Meatloaf, Screamin J Hawkins and a few comedy musicians also feature in my collection:)
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Whilst enjoying my breakfast this morning I was listening to a wonderful LP,
with compositions by Vivaldi , Albinoni and Corelli-Concertos,
all directed by Raymond Leppard, who also plays the harpsichord. The record itself was recorded in 1970
and the tonality is absolutely perfect and it sounds as if the orchestra is in the room ...
The record-label "Music for Pleasure" certainly had the very best sound-engineers working for them
and amazingly, the LP hardly needed any cleaning, despite the fact that it "has been around" for over 45 years ...
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This probably is cheesey, but I get inspiration from Nickelback's "If today was your last day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrXIQQ8PeRs. The line "Every second counts, you don't get a second try..." gets me thinking about how to approach another day.
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"Pop, pop, fizz. fizz, Oh what a relief it is."
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Charlie Drake 1812 Overture (courtesy of youtube)
One of my absolute favourite fun-films, just over nine minutes ... :laugh:
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Just got THE BEATLES off spotify WOO HOO
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"Love at the Five and Dime" Nanci Griffith. Sleepless night listening to music helps relax. If you haven't heard this remarkably talented woman, do yourself a favor and find it on YouTube.
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I've just been listening to this...
http://www.superstarmagazine.com/watch-the-hauntingly-beautiful-cover-of-simon-garfunkels-the-sound-of-silence-by-disturbed/
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"Love at the Five and Dime" Nanci Griffith. Sleepless night listening to music helps relax. If you haven't heard this remarkably talented woman, do yourself a favor and find it on YouTube.
I could listen to her all nite. Love her.
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I've just been listening to this...
http://www.superstarmagazine.com/watch-the-hauntingly-beautiful-cover-of-simon-garfunkels-the-sound-of-silence-by-disturbed/
Holy cow! That guy is scary looking! BUT...and I normally don't find myself saying this about Heavy Metal but what he has done with that song really grabbed me. WOW!! Love it! I don't know, never heard of this group before but I'm not much into Heavy Metal but, I detected some Kurt Cobain, Bono and even a hint of (go figure) Darius Rucker. I absolutely loved it. Thanks for sharing MM! Going to watch more youtubes tonite...lol
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Love these guys. They call themselves 2Cellos. Very very talented. They have definitely opened the door to a good future. I admit, I have never been interested in playing the cello but heck, even I would love to see these guys in concert. They are very entertaining. I imagine they are inspiring a lot of young people to learn to play. Awesome!
2Cellos Enjoy!
Thunderstruck
https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk
AC/DC Song Highway To Hell
https://youtu.be/qfGggAGITwg
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I've just been listening to this...
http://www.superstarmagazine.com/watch-the-hauntingly-beautiful-cover-of-simon-garfunkels-the-sound-of-silence-by-disturbed/
Crikey !!! What a voice !!! He really means it !!!
... I do hope though, he grows out of this phase he is currently going through
and hopefully soon he stops hurting himself and takes away these (slavery?) rings all over his face... :secret;
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I've been in Nashville about 5 years now, and still have little to no knowledge about country music. So, I've been trying to learn more about the "Golden Era of the Opry" (50's-70's).
Just read Charlie Louvin's book - "Satan is Real". Don't let the title fool ya, it's not Satanic at all. So, to go along with that, I've started to listen to the Louvin Brothers during the day. Keep going back to Knoxville Girl.
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Georg Philiipp Telemann (1681 - 1767) "Clavierbuechlein" (1953 Ed. Otto von Irmer) ... simply divine ...
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In the mood today for some John Forgerty and CCR. Love "Rock and Roll Girsl" and that yodel. Think of you, Charlie B53 when I watched the youtube to "Sweet Hitchhiker". :sluff;
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My (and my daughter Holly's) musical tastes run from Abba to Zebra...with some Killer Dwarfs thrown in for good measure. :clap;
Music was a big part of my life growing up...and my daughter has taken after me.
My daughter loves One Republic...and I am fortunate to do business with the father of one of the members of the band....so Holly got to go back stage a few times...and sit in the row with family members of the band :)
(http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/37956/filename/tn_IMG_6848%20Holly%201%20r.JPG)
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Here's a shadow box that I made for Holly for her birthday this year :)
I am going to switch out the autographed picture of the band....with the picture shown above :thumbup;
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/lotsayenkopics/zz/luis/one%20R_zpsyugvplm9.jpg)
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Here's a shadow box that I made for Holly for her birthday this year :)
I am going to switch out the autographed picture of the band....with the picture shown above :thumbup;
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/lotsayenkopics/zz/luis/one%20R_zpsyugvplm9.jpg)
Which picture above? A picture of Holly in it would probably look great, too. Just my :twocents;
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That's weird....I will have to update the picture when I get home :)
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Looks like the picture is back....If not it's now attached here :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/xplantdad/One%20republic/tn_IMG_6848_Holly_1_r_zpsj9qodccm.jpg)
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That picture would be excellent, Bruce! Maybe you'll find a way to fit both pics (the one with Holly & the band and the autographed one). They're a good band, thanks for sharing. Been watching their youtubes now.
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I think that you are right, PT.
All of the members of the band can play multiple instruments..and they are the nicest "kids" around! Right now they are doing spur of the moment concerts...before the big tour starts up. They are amazing live...which you can't say for most of today's bands! :guitar:
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Found me some Coffey Anderson and lovin it. Pssst....thanks Zach!
https://youtu.be/bHaYDRkx6e8
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Found me some Coffey Anderson and lovin it. Pssst....thanks Zach!
https://youtu.be/bHaYDRkx6e8
:cuddle;
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Sax by Fleur East as searching for music on iTunes.
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Sax by Fleur East as searching for music on iTunes.
I can't keep up! lol That woman is in some seriously good shape! She also has a lovely voice. :bandance;
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Sax by Fleur East as searching for music on iTunes.
I can't keep up! lol That woman is in some seriously good shape! She also has a lovely voice. :bandance;
Kinda reminds me of 70's music or even 80's music.
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Sax by Fleur East as searching for music on iTunes.
I can't keep up! lol That woman is in some seriously good shape! She also has a lovely voice. :bandance;
Kinda reminds me of 70's music or even 80's music.
There you go! Hit the nail on the head! Don't know why but Sax by Fleur East makes me think of Michael Jackson and that song by Murray Head "One Night in Bangkok". I know, go figure. :waiting;
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Classic Murray song, now I will have that playing in my head.
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Classic Murray song, now I will have that playing in my head.
Hello Chris, great to "see" you!
I have searched on youtube for the "Classic Murray song" and was pleasantly surprised when I listened to “The Bare Necessities" !
Great to "see" you and best wishes from Kristina. :waving;
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"People Are Strange" by The Doors, my ringtone for people I do not know.
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And when those strangers that call show up at the door, "Who Can it Be Now?" by Men at Work.
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I was at this concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater when I lived in Colorado. Class act all the way... :guitar:
The Moody Blues
https://youtu.be/rJ6h84ZsuW4
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My favorite part is when they used an alligator for a cannon and he "lost" his mind. Get it, he lost his mind! :rofl;
Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans
https://youtu.be/XBmE_clkBBU
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Smoked a LOT of dope throughtout ALL the 70's. Know all the Classic Rock and a whole lot more. You know how a rift just a short section of a number can stick in your mind for DAYS, but you just can't remember who did it, or what it is called? I do that all the time. Spent some time this morning searching and surprised it didn't take me that long to find it.
Hooters - All You Zombies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
Spent a couple of hours inside out of the heat rocking. LOL I was going to post the link to a site I use to convert youtube videos to mp3's but seems I haven't done that with this laptop, it's one my main machine in the 'office', the room next to this one. I'm on my 'hose' right now.
Oh, here's a great one, not so well known.
Phantom, Rocker, and Slick - Men Without Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BzHwoFV38
Never stop rock'n
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Smoked a LOT of dope throughtout ALL the 70's. Know all the Classic Rock and a whole lot more. You know how a rift just a short section of a number can stick in your mind for DAYS, but you just can't remember who did it, or what it is called? I do that all the time. Spent some time this morning searching and surprised it didn't take me that long to find it.
Hooters - All You Zombies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
Never stop rock'n
The Hooters! Loved them! Here's another of theirs. I don't recommend trying to get into a drive-in like that tho. Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.. ::)
https://youtu.be/zB1Q-PfUvN0
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I miss the drive-ins. I'm third of four boys then two girls. Mom used to take us til eldest Bro got his license. Most every fri or sat night most summer and fall.
I used to take Wife for years until all the drive-ins started closing. VCR's pretty much killed the industry. Cable TV and movie channels didn't help any.
Still miss some of those cool nights watching that big screen. Far better than any TV.
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... One of my favourite songs by Maria Callas has always been "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix " ... and the meaning of it becomes so much clearer
when reading the book by her sister Jackie Callas : "Sisters" ... it also becomes clear that there was nothing else in the life of Maria Callas except her singing and her music ...
... Her life was dedicated to nothing else but music and missed opportunities and when her voice left her much too early, there was unfortunately nothing else left for her ...
... One of the very saddest books I have ever read and it will take me a quite while to recover from the sheer sadness of it all ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T899yAHgDI
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One of my favourite very cheeky one's : It's good news week: someone dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating the atmosphere and blackened the sky...)
( I have always changed it to: It's good news we eat, someone dropped a bomb somewhere, contaminating ...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KzGKnuUuc
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One of my favourite songs by Ivan Rebroff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3h-2r_q98
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... The unforgettable 1812 by Charlie Drake : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZM33ynvBKg
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Johnny Halliday l'envie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmBe0Ux6G4
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Well while outside with the dog I pulled my phone out and told Siri to play Aqua thinking Aquarious would play, but Aqualung played instead by Jethro Tull then for ome odd reason followed up with Close by Nick Jonas. I was hoping to hear the other Jethro Tull songs I had.
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Johnny Halliday l'envie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmBe0Ux6G4
Not a bad performance for a man in his 70's. He's still got it! French Elvis! I don't know French but his singing sounds romantic. I swear tho that I've met him. Not from a concert but personally, just can't recall where. Once ran into George Harrison when I worked at an airport. He was just slowly pacing back and forth waiting for a flight. I was standing behind a closed ticket counter to finish some paperwork when I noticed a man kept pacing back and forth. He seemed oddly dressed but very quiet, keeping to himself. He had no entourage. When I finally looked up and noticed who he was, my jaw dropped. He stopped, pulled his little sunglasses down and gave me a wink and then quietly went on his way. I was so embarrassed for not having acknowledged him sooner. Met quite a few celebrities while working for the airlines. My favorite was Olympian track star Carl Lewis. He was stranded and need to be rebooked to get home to Houston so security brought him over to me to get him booked. What an honor it was meeting my track idol! He and his brother (who was traveling with him) were both very very nice gentlemen. Felt bad because within minutes Carl was swamped by people wanting his autograph but you know what? He stayed and signed every single one of them. It was pretty classy for him to do that. I shook his hand and congratulated him on all his medals and then had to send him on his way. Gave me goosebumps.
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Johnny Halliday l'envie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmBe0Ux6G4
Not a bad performance for a man in his 70's. He's still got it! French Elvis! I don't know French but his singing sounds romantic. I swear tho that I've met him. Not from a concert but personally, just can't recall where. Once ran into George Harrison when I worked at an airport. He was just slowly pacing back and forth waiting for a flight. I was standing behind a closed ticket counter to finish some paperwork when I noticed a man kept pacing back and forth. He seemed oddly dressed but very quiet, keeping to himself. He had no entourage. When I finally looked up and noticed who he was, my jaw dropped. He stopped, pulled his little sunglasses down and gave me a wink and then quietly went on his way. I was so embarrassed for not having acknowledged him sooner. Met quite a few celebrities while working for the airlines. My favorite was Olympian track star Carl Lewis. He was stranded and need to be rebooked to get home to Houston so security brought him over to me to get him booked. What an honor it was meeting my track idol! He and his brother (who was traveling with him) were both very very nice gentlemen. Felt bad because within minutes Carl was swamped by people wanting his autograph but you know what? He stayed and signed every single one of them. It was pretty classy for him to do that. I shook his hand and congratulated him on all his medals and then had to send him on his way. Gave me goosebumps.
Interesting observation PrimeTimer! You are right, it is not a bad performance for a man in his 70's. Johnny Halliday (real name Jean-Philippe Smet) was also created a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1997 and has been an icon in the French-speaking-world for many years and it could easily be that you have come across him whilst working at an airport or anywhere in the USA where he is known to travel alone on his motorbike on a regular basis ...
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An interesting song by Al Bano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs90KLBVz_g
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Flower duet - Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanca (Lakmé de Delibes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw
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Hvorostovsky & Kaufmann - Pearl Fishers duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MwnHpLV48
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Rosa Ponselle & Ezio Pinza - La vergine degli angeli - 1928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Yg2tFFIyU
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Ingeborg Hallstein: Lied der Nachtigall - Song of the Nightingale
When I was a little child I heard her sing this song and I was extremely impressed ... and I still am ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbejBzYxJ8I
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Alan Stivell Renaissance of the Celtic Harp- 01 Ys ... still the very best ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCe8zdJuY0
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Alan Stivell Renaissance of the Celtic Harp- 01 Ys ... still the very best ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCe8zdJuY0
Beautiful! Very relaxing and yet cheerful at the same time. After listening to the video you shared I read a little wiki bio on Stivell. Found out he performed on stage in 1968 at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with a group I like -the Moody Blues! Couldn't find the video of that but did find an old video of the Moody Blues from 1968. Funny to watch how the audience dressed and danced back then. A bit of nostalgia I guess.
https://youtu.be/H4xSigrBWk4
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Thank you PrimeTimer!
It is not surprising that Alan Stivell and The Moody Blues performed at the same venue
and in a way they share a lot and are not too unsimilar with the feelings they evoke in the listener.
... When I first heard the Moody Blues with their song "Nights in White Satin" I thought it was meant as
"Knights in White Satin" and after doing my research I thought it might be connected to the Crusaders .... :laugh:
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Celtic Harp: Alan Stivell: Eliz Iza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yscg8Bp2dM
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One of my favourite pianists calls himself "cubus" and can only be heard on "youtube"
and he plays here Georg Friedrich Haendel's "Sarabande" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAvlVWS3Xg
I have learned a lot from this pianist and whenever I listen to him I feel that he has the most perfect timing and he also faithfully interprets the work of the composer.
And here the pianist Maksim Mrvica plays the same piece by Haendel, very modernized and not to everyone's musical taste... and one of the listeners wrote:
"Handel's response if he were alive to hear this performance: "Interesting piece. It sounds slightly familiar. Who's the composer?"
Maksim Mrvica _♪♫ Handel's Sarabande ♫♪_ - YouTube
Video for Maksim Mrvica _♪♫ Handel's Sarabande ♫♪_▶ 3:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN4lm3Mqtn4
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Here "cubus" plays the Chaconne by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) which consist of a theme and 21
variations. In this video the theme and the first 10 variations are played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxED1odw5GY
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Here is one of my favourite pianists called "cubus" with a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach "Adagio", BWV 974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x-OHljZzHQ
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One of my favourite pieces is played here on the organ and composed by J. C. F. Fischer (1656-1746) "Chaconne" (Suite Euterpe. Musikalischer Parnassus, 1738ca.)
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German middle-Baroque composer and he was instrumental in introducing the French keyboard suite to German-speaking countries.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) greatly admired his works, and would study them greatly before writing masterpieces of his own.
Performed by Luis Antonio González, musicologist and leader of Los Músicos de Su Alteza, on the historic organ of San Pablo church in Zaragoza (Aragón, Spain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9OHpQC1Pw
... and here is the same Chaconne performed wonderfully on the harpsichord by Kathy Perl :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQzuXvQcdo
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My favourite harpsichordist Scott Ross (March 1, 1951 – June 13, 1989) plays here a wonderful piece by François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733, a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great"). Scott Ross plays here Couperin's "Les Barricades Mystérieuses".
Scott Ross was a United States-born harpsichordist who lived in France and Canada for many years. His recordings include the first complete recording by a single performer of the 555 harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and his great musicality and perfect timing are amazing.The title "Les Barricades Mystérieuses" is probably meant to be evocative rather than a reference to a specific object, musical or otherwise. Scott Ross, in a master-class filmed and distributed by Harmonia Mundi, likens this piece to a train. This clearly cannot have been the precise image Couperin was trying to convey, but it is easy to hear in "Les Barricades" the image of a heavy but fast-moving object that picks up momentum. In that sense, the mysterious barricades are perhaps those which cause the "train" to slow down and sometimes stop... This hypothesis seems to fit in with the pedagogical aims of Couperin's music, since the composer presents himself as something of a specialist in building sound through legato, style luthé playing... Moreover, it seems to form a set with the following piece "Les Bergeries". This latter piece, though more melodic than "Les Barricades", set in a higher register and more bucolic in feeling, is also an exercise in using a repetitive motif (in this case a left hand ostinato evocative of the musette) to build sound without seeming mechanical or repetitive. Both "Les Barricades Mystérieuses" and "Les Bergeries", then, are exercises in building (and relaxing) sound and momentum elegantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj33HliB5v0
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One of the greatest pianists of our times, Emil Gilels, plays here Rachmaninov's - Song No 14, Op 34 - Vocalise, which was composed and published in 1915.
In this song with its melancholic longing Rachmaninov expresses his deepest vulnerability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eadr-PPz2cs
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This is one of the most wonderful and calming melodies called 'Vocalise',
composed by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) as a lullaby for his two young daughtes.
Paul Barton is the pianist and he plays on a FEURICH 218 piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=derhpY1FLo4
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I love mashups of songs. This is my current obsession... This guy took a bunch of classical piano works and combined them in to one beautiful song.
https://youtu.be/7OYkWSW7u4k
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Dedicated to my friends on the Le...uh well, you know who you are. :beer1;
https://youtu.be/cQrgeeS_qbo
https://youtu.be/OzpXuRCBgsM
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Thank you, Prime Timer for this lovely touch of nostalgia ...
... and that just reminds me of Peter Paul and Mary with this lovely age-less song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-pyWALro4
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My favourite 2016 Christmas advert from John Lewis at Sloane Street, Chelsea, London SW3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr6lr_VRsEo
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Prime Timer and Kristina,
I just listened to the songs you recommended in the last couple of posts on this thread (which is new to me). So great! And Kristina that Christmas video is wonderful.
I'm going to have to go further back in this thread to listen to more music. When I can figure out how to post the links, I'll post some of my favorites.
Kathy
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Given some of the reaction ( :stressed; :pray; :'( >:D :( ) to the news this week that Trump has been elected President, this song came to mind...Now c'mon, at one time or another we have all felt how Dwight did halfway thru this song. Mr. Sarcasm...
Dwight Yoakam's "Things Change" :sarcasm;
https://youtu.be/0oFdFdcXKb4
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Prime Timer and Kristina,
I just listened to the songs you recommended in the last couple of posts on this thread (which is new to me). So great! And Kristina that Christmas video is wonderful.
I'm going to have to go further back in this thread to listen to more music. When I can figure out how to post the links, I'll post some of my favorites.
Kathy
Thank you Kathy for your kind words and lovely thoughts...
... Music becomes very important when we have health-issues and the fact that many composers had health-issues themselves, makes it so much easier for us to feel understood and comforted by their compositions... These days doctors often recommend for patients to search and find their special music where they feel at home with, because it has been noticed that music can act as medicine and soothe the mind enough to take-on and carry-on the battle with a chronic disease... :grouphug;
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People are just amazing and they never fail to amaze me : Some bright spark has produced a political Trump-Clinton-Parody
out of the 2016-John-Lewis-Christmas-advert I have shared above ...
... and here it is ... and ... please ... be warned and prepared : Thick Political Skin required to watch ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqNqQPKY3Eo
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One of my favourite pieces of music is called "In the Steppes of Central Asia" and was composed by Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887) a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian origin, as well as a doctor and a chemist. He was one of the prominent 19th century Russian composers known as The Mighty Handful, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models. Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his two string quartets, In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor. Music from Prince Igor and his string quartets was later adapted for the US musical Kismet. A notable advocate of women's rights, Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in St. Petersburg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4bOmxKVQQ
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Takes me back to times spent in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado Rockies. :snowman; :christmastree; :rudolph;
https://youtu.be/e874vKfYfuU?list=RDe874vKfYfuU
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Joan Baez with the lovely song she wrote about her brother in law
Sweet Sir Galahad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfqB1CD6VA
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Some people have most beautiful voices with which they sing very beautiful songs,
like Peter, Paul and Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane (25th Anniversary Concert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVQAhhlq798
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Carmina Burana , Scenic cantata by Carl Orff
"The Wheel of Fortune" from the Codex Buranus
In 1934, the composer Karl Orff encountered in a second-hand bookshop the 1847 edition of the Carmina Burana by Johann Andreas Schmeller, the original text dating mostly from the 11th or 12th century, including some from the 13th century. Michel Hofmann, then a young law student and Latin and Greek enthusiast, assisted Karl Orff in the selection and organization of 24 of these poems into a libretto, mostly in Latin verse, with a small amount of Middle High German and Old Provençal. This video shows the Dutch conductor and violinist André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu from Maastricht who is best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJC-_j3SnXk
... and here is an older version of the "Wheel of Fortune" with English translation :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIpoE2LEps
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me.
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Carmina Burana is one of my favourite pieces of music. When I was in university, our concert choir travelled to Guadalajara two summers in a row to perform with the Guadalajara Symphony Orchestra. The first summer we sang Bach's Mass in B Minor, and the second summer we performed Carmina Burana. There are few things more exhilarating than singing in a big choir accompanied by a full orchestra!
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Hello MooseMom,
that must have been an exhilarating experience to be part of a concert choir
and travel to Guadalajara (Mexico?) to sing Carmina Burana, accompanied by a full orchestra !
... When I first heard Carmina Burana, it almost sounded as if the roof of the Concert Hall would come down any minute
and at first I was not quite sure what to make of it...
... and I only "grew towards it" very slowly ...
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Carmina Burana takes a bit of getting used to, especially if you are a fan of Bach. I was introduced to it by my then-boyfriend who was a lovely bass baritone, so I was familiar with it before we sang it. I've since attended several performances of it and can still remember all of the words. It is great fun to sing.
I admit, though, that it was Bach's Mass that I particularly enjoyed performing. The venue was the ornate Cathedral on the main square in Guadalajara (yes, Mexico). Since I'm short and a contralto, I stood right in the middle of that great musical pool that was the choir (100 strong) and the full orchestra. The whole performance took almost 3 hours, and I remember there was a reception for us all afterwards. I was desperate for water, found a glass and downed it straight away, only to discover that it was tequila. There was tequila everywhere, but just plain water was so hard to find!
Gosh, that was so long ago. I'd love to sing again, but I don't like the idea of making that sort of time commitment any more. Hm...that's not a good way of thinking, is it!
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Channel 14 on XM Radio, on the way to my son's BB game. "Howie Day, Collide" :cuddle;
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My husband is a real fan of The Voice, and while I watched with him, it made me think about vocalists. There are songs and performers that we like, but who do you all think are truly talented vocalists that are popular today? Apart from the obvious choices in the world of opera and musical theater, whose actual voices do you find to be particularly attractive?
Who would have thought that Lady Gaga, who garnered attention with provocative music videos and a meat dress, was actually an extraordinarily gifted singer? I sometimes think that artists are pigeon holed by their manager or recording company, so we don't often get to hear someone really SING.
Off the top of my head, the vocalists that I think are particularly talented are all women. I can't think of a man whose voice is particularly spectacular.
Who comes to mind for you?
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One male singer comes to mind and that is Ivan Rebroff (31 July 1931 – 27 February 2008), a singer, allegedly of Russian ancestry, with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JPUJFP_-EE
My husband and I discovered the voice of Ivan Rebroff by chance whilst we travelled from Prague back to London via Berlin, where we visited the Cathedral and whilst we studied the paintings and artistry etc. in the Cathedral we heard - all of a sudden - a most wonderful bariton singing and it was Ivan Rebroff, who tested to made sure about the sound etc. for his forthcoming concert the same evening at this Cathedral. After hearing his voice we decided to find out more and stay and so it came that we enjoyed a most inspiring concert...
... Another male singer with a fascinating voice that comes to mind is Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978), a Belgian singer, songwriter, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zgNye6HTE
and ... must not forget Gilbert Bécaud (24 October 1927 – 18 December 2001), a French singer, composer, pianist and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilQ8BIHisw
... and then there is Salvatore Adamo (born 1 November 1943, Comiso, Sicily, Italy), a musician and singer known for ballads.
Salvatore Adamo - Inch Allah.avi - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIkrsBOymAY
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My favourite New Years Day piece of music is the Radetzky March, composed by Johann Strauss Senior ... it is so full of expectation, hope and joy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZbMjuM3dI
... and here is Herbert von Karajan's interpretation of the Radetzky March :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFf7NIwOHQ
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Setting in my truck with the radio on Christmas Eve I heard a Cheap Trick number I never heard before.
Done to the tune of 'I Want You to Want Me'
Redone as 'I Want You for Christmas'
I finally looked it up on YouTube. This is a shorter version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xc2NcULOfk
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We went to see "La La Land" last week and loved it. We purchased the album and I'm hooked on it right now. Can't get the music out of my head.
I, too, am a fan of Orff's Carmina Burana, though.
Aleta
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On the first and the second of January I often listen to some of the Strauss Waltzes, especially The Blue Danube,
as it is such a beautiful way to look forward to a New Year ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaJ7rFg66A
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When I was younger, my friends once made me get dressed up as "punk" and go with them to a very expensive bar. We were temporarily in Portland and they wanted to experience something different. Well, it was different alright. It was there that I danced with Mr. Idol. Guess you could say he wasn't dancing with himself that nite. Was fun but a crowd formed so was embarrassing. I did not give him my phone number tho...my friends were mad at me for that. I felt it (he) was no big deal. Liked his music but he was not my type. ::)
https://youtu.be/FG1NrQYXjLU
Love this woman's voice. Sort of reminds me of Janice Joplin.
https://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc
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One of my favourite compositions in music is by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (some authorities use the spelling Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer) (c. 1656 – 27 August 1746), a German Baroque composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day, however, partly due to the rarity of surviving copies of his music, his music is rarely heard today.
Here is Fischer's Chaconne in F major played by Jörn Boysen ... and I do hope one day I shall play it as well as this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfuknkoLh3w
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One of my favourite compositions in music is by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (some authorities use the spelling Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer) (c. 1656 – 27 August 1746), a German Baroque composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day, however, partly due to the rarity of surviving copies of his music, his music is rarely heard today.
Here is Fischer's Chaconne in F major played by Jörn Boysen ... and I do hope one day I shall play it as well as this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfuknkoLh3w
How can a piece of music be both exhilarating and calming at the same time? Thank you so much for posting this. It really made my morning!
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Full drippings of deep bravado. Teaming translucently over areas i dare note alone. Civility at it's finest. Thank you for sharing .
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One of my favourite compositions in music is by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (some authorities use the spelling Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer) (c. 1656 – 27 August 1746), a German Baroque composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day, however, partly due to the rarity of surviving copies of his music, his music is rarely heard today.
Here is Fischer's Chaconne in F major played by Jörn Boysen ... and I do hope one day I shall play it as well as this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfuknkoLh3w
That's beautiful
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Many thanks for your kind thoughts, MooseMom, Blake nighsonger and okarol. It makes me very happy that you enjoy Fischer's Chaconne in F major played by Jörn Boysen ... and I do hope you also enjoy "The lark ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958). "The lark ascending" is one of those very calming compositions to listen to on a stressful day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbFi85piaEg
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That's very nice and all, Kristina, but on this particular stressful day, I'll have a whisky with that tune. LOL!
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That's very nice and all, Kristina, but on this particular stressful day, I'll have a whisky with that tune. LOL!
Thank you MooseMom for your kind thoughts.
... I must admit I don't know anything about whisky and have never tried it ... yet ...
... Perhaps one day (after THE event) - we could meet, celebrate and you give a little introduction ?
Best wishes from Kristina. :waving;
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The composer Ludovici Einaudi, born 23 November 1955 (age 61 years) in Turin, Italy whose genre is minimal music...
... And I have tried to acquaint myself with his music, but it seems to repeat itself ad infinitum (again and again in the same way forever)...
... What do you think? Here is an example called "Divenire" (=become)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DRDcGlSsE
P.S. I have just noticed that clicking the above comes up blank without music, BUT the good news is that next to it on the right side
it is possible to "listen into" Ludovici Einaudi's other "compositions" i.e. una mattina (=a morning) nuvole bianche (=white clouds) etc.
(not showing off with my very rusty Italian language, but Mr. Google has been very helpful ...) :)
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I'm reading "A History of Singing" by some Cambridge bods; I've always been interested in "ancient" music and how vocal music has evolved, particularly that in the Western Tradition.
I have sung several masses in my day, and in my reading, I came across examinations of masses composed by the fifteenth century composer Johannes Ockenghem, particularly his Dona Nobis. I know this is not to most people's liking, but I know how hard it is to sing this kind of music, so I was intrigued. So, here's something of a sort of music most have not ever heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oErsLtu-lg
As most of you know, especially if you are Catholic, a mass has several sections. The above link is for the Agnus Dei, but if you want to listen to other parts like the Kryie or the Gloria, you can find them easily on YouTube. But if you're not into this kind of music, Beyoncé is pregnant with twins!!!
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I love anything Neil Diamond. Takes me back to a time when a friends mother had an entire collection of eight-tracks of Diamond. She'd let us listen to them but never allowed to leave the house with them. Oh geez...eight tracks...did I just date myself or what? :wine; :guitar:
https://youtu.be/QQLWF_ItzYs?list=RD8g1vRCHa8Vg
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Channel 14 on XM Radio, on the way to my son's BB game. "Howie Day, Collide" :cuddle;
I'll have to look and see what channel 14 is now.. *G*
Janis Ian is a bit of a favorite of mine. She writes incredible lyrics. I told her on facebook once that I wished I could write like that, because I find her use of words to be quite an art. She told me that it took a lot of practice and just to keep at it
My last album bought, however, was Ed Sheeran's new one, Divide. There's a couple of "dance around the kitchen while making coffee" songs on it..
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... Most unusual performance of Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
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... Most unusual performance of Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
Oh, my! This made me cry. My spine actually tingled!
The choir was a big surprise! I didn't see that coming.
Thanks so much for posting this, Kristina. I will make it a habit to watch it any time I feel like the world is coming to an end, which is pretty much every day these days. ::)
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Glory B
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... Most unusual performance of Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) by Ludwig van Beethoven ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
Oh, my! This made me cry. My spine actually tingled!
The choir was a big surprise! I didn't see that coming.
Thanks so much for posting this, Kristina. I will make it a habit to watch it any time I feel like the world is coming to an end, which is pretty much every day these days. ::)
Many thanks MooseMom and Blake nighsonger for your touching thoughts, it makes me very happy that you feel like that ...
... and ... it just goes to show that music has a very magic touch and connects people all over the world ... :cuddle;
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One of the most unforgettable pieces in piano music is by the Russian composer Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein: Réve Angélique
played here by the Finnish pianist Jouni Somero,piano - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkyDa1A0HSc
Réve Angélique was composed by Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein whilst being driven to the palace of The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (sister of the Tsar) to perform on the piano at her soirée (an evening party or gathering) and he was not only a composer but also one of the very best pianists of his time... I also should mention here that Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was often called "van II", not only because he looked a bit like Beethoven but there were also certain rumours ...
P.S. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein died in Peterhof, having suffered from heart disease for some time. All his life he had felt himself something of an outsider; he wrote of himself in his notebooks “Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”.
The street in St. Petersburg where he lived is now named after him.
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P.S. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein died in Peterhof, having suffered from heart disease for some time. All his life he had felt himself something of an outsider; he wrote of himself in his notebooks “Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”.
Sounds like an artist. If you are good at your craft, you tend to be alienated by your contemporaries. Also, a good many artists suffer from some form of depression, or at the very least, self-depreciation. You are never good enough, in your own eyes, to be accepted by the group. In my own case, I THINK I'm not accepted, but really, I am. It's possible he felt that way as well.
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P.S. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein died in Peterhof, having suffered from heart disease for some time. All his life he had felt himself something of an outsider; he wrote of himself in his notebooks “Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”.
Sounds like an artist. If you are good at your craft, you tend to be alienated by your contemporaries. Also, a good many artists suffer from some form of depression, or at the very least, self-depreciation. You are never good enough, in your own eyes, to be accepted by the group. In my own case, I THINK I'm not accepted, but really, I am. It's possible he felt that way as well.
That was very well observed Riki, because Anton Gregorevich Rubinstein was very much an artist! For many years he gave many pianist-recitals all over the world and when there were enough savings to retire he refused lucrative offers to give further recitals with the argument that he had been working very hard since being a child ... His piano-playing was very much admired by all listeners for his very sensitive touch and almost everyone was staggered by his playing and Sergey Rachmaninov studied his art very closely.
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My two top-favourite and most unusual piano players at the moment:
The first one is a man playing on a street-piano in Sarasota: an ex-marine who became homeless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCguq3hTC2M
And here is the update about the above ex-marine homeless man playing on a street-piano in Sarasota:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt5H-pSsyiM
The other is a Russian Security officer who could not resist when he noticed a street-piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Zg-1xiUYw
And here is an update on the above Russian Security officer (soldier) playing on a street-piano in a balaclava:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTy24gIrRL0
P.S. I have re-edited today because some commercials have "crept in" and I have tried my best to delete them...
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I've been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack for the last few days, and I'm loving it. I'm keeping my eye out for tickets to go on sale for the show in Boston next year. I'm getting to know the songs so well that if I ever do get to see the show, I will be that annoying theater goer who sings the words to all the songs. *G*
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829, New Orleans - December 18, 1869, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is my favourite American composer and he was best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - La Savane, Op. 3 - played by the pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxoGVOwauTc
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That was aurally delicious, Kristina! Thanks for posting that!
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Thank you MooseMom, I am very happy that you also enjoy his unusual way of composing. I first came across his compositions when we visited the historic piano Museum at Finchcocks (unfortunately no longer in existence) , where they played his compositions on historic pianos of his times by Graf, John Broadwood & Son and the concert was very impressive.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk wrote most interesting thoughts about being a pianist i.e. "The sound is the execution of the pianist what colours are in painting. We often see fine pictures admirably drawn which nevertheless appear cold to us. They are wanting in colour. Many pianists, whose thundering execution astonishes us, nevertheless do not move us; they are ignorant of sound. Drawing and execution are acquired by labour. Colour and sound are born in us and are the outward expressions of our sensibility and of our soul."
Louis Moreau Gottschalk started on his last Concert tour to South America and, after many adventures, died at the age of 40 in December 1869 in Rio de Janeiro, where he was mourned as a national hero.
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For as long as I can remember, I've loved watching ice skating competitions. The 2017 World Championships in Helsinki have just finished, and this one particular pairs free skate captivated me. The music is "Lighthouse" by Patrick Watson about whom I know absolutely nothing, but I really liked it. So for your viewing and listening pleasure whenever you may be feeling fraught, this is for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timzDGZttZo
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Many thanks MooseMom for posting this !!! It practically restores my faith in ice scating-competitions !!! It is so refreshing to watch Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot and see their beautifully worked-out most sensitive ice-dancing performance, where most difficult technical features are practically "thrown in" as a by-the-way-addition to their artistically perfect and most beautiful performance ! When I grew up I always looked forward to watch ice scating competitions and I loved every minute of it !!! But then, I believe it was in the late 1970's, early 1980's, when I felt that ice scating competitions became a bit too technical in order to please the judges and it also appeared a bit political when judges gave their vote mainly to ice scaters of their own native country... All that appears to have changed for the better now and I am so pleased to see it happening! It is so wonderfully refreshing to see a French ice scater (Bruno Massot) dancing in complete harmony with a Russian ice scater (Aliona Savchenko) and they compete together for Germany and it is just wonderful to watch their most artistic, very sensitive and technically perfect performance !
Thanks again MooseMom for sharing with us this wonderful development in competitive ice scating !
Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Many thanks MooseMom for posting this !!! It practically restores my faith in ice scating-competitions !!! It is so refreshing to watch Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot and see their beautifully worked-out most sensitive ice-dancing performance, where most difficult technical features are practically "thrown in" as a by-the-way-addition to their artistically perfect and most beautiful performance ! When I grew up I always looked forward to watch ice scating competitions and I loved every minute of it !!! But then, I believe it was in the late 1970's, early 1980's, when I felt that ice scating competitions became a bit too technical in order to please the judges and it also appeared a bit political when judges gave their vote mainly to ice scaters of their own native country... All that appears to have changed for the better now and I am so pleased to see it happening! It is so wonderfully refreshing to see a French ice scater (Bruno Massot) dancing in complete harmony with a Russian ice scater (Aliona Savchenko) and they compete together for Germany and it is just wonderful to watch their most artistic, very sensitive and technically perfect performance !
Thanks again MooseMom for sharing with us this wonderful development in competitive ice scating !
Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
kristina: I hope to sit down and listen to some of the music you love and suggest and watch some videos of the skating too. I love pair skating! Sounds like all this could be relaxing and I very much need that. :)
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PrimeTimer, try going to you tube and search for "Helsinki ice skating 2017" or "Helsinki world championships 2017", and you'll be able to find many of the medal winning performances from this past weekend. If you include "FS" in your search, you'll find videos of the free skating portion of all of the separate competitions (pairs, dance, men's and women's individual) If you include "SP", you'll find the short programs. It's well worth watching when you're feeling a bit down.
Kristina, I remember the bad ol' days when it certainly seemed like the scoring was political. They've overhauled the scoring protocol, and you don't hear those sorts of complaints, anymore. Thank goodness for that!
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Hello PrimeTimer I do hope you get the time to relax very soon and have some "me-time"... :waving;
and hello MooseMom ... and ... yes, it is so good to know that the ol' politically induced scoring protocol is finally "a thing of the past"... :waving;
P.S. Spring has finally arrived here in London and all of a sudden everything looks ever so bright ... :2thumbsup;
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Today I listened again to one of my favourite pianists Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff who was also one of the very best interpreters of Chopin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGO4SGC2eow
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. He recorded the complete collection of their piano sonatas and is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the Germanic tradition during the 20th century and one of the greatest pianists of all time.
P.S It is sad that there were those strange unfitting pictures put in and unfortunately this is the only edition of Kempff's interpretation of Chopin's pianoconcerto I could find on the Internet ...
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My current favourite composition by Georg Friedrich Händel, originally composed for the flute and later transcribed by Wilhelm Kempff for the piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lhHJ2ZAfvE
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We've been watching ITV's "Home Fires" (Season 2) on PBS, and the theme song has always stayed in my head for hours after watching the latest episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIuEo0cgLos
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Jean Rondeau plays Bach's Chaconne on harpsichord. He is a French musician best known for his performances on harpsichord. Early taught by Blandine Verlet, he was later educated at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Jean Rondeau won Young Soloist 2014 in the Prix des Radios Francophones Publiques and has gone on to release two solo albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChKsMjIMFw
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François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses, Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB9mxe8CHk
Hanneke van Proosdij studied harpsichord and organ with Jacques Ogg at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where she also studied recorder and composition.
She received her DM (teaching diploma) in 1992 and UM (solo diploma) in 1995. She performs with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists, Magnificat, Parnassus Ave, Chanticleer, Orinda and Farallon Recorder Quartet.
Festival appearances include the Berkeley Early Music Festival, Internationale Handel Festpiele Goettingen, Amherst Early Music Festival, Festival d'Ambronnay, Wratislavia Cantans, Contemporary Improvised Music Festival and the American Bach Soloists SummerFest.
Hanneke is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.
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This is one of the most beautiful compositions by J.S Bach (1685-1750) from his Brandenburg Concertos,
Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major (written in 1721), BWV 1051: Adagio, ma non tanto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupCd0WT9oY
J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos: a musical job application
Normally, job applications tend to involve a lot of CV-massaging and begging letters. Not for J.S. Bach, though - he wrote his Brandenburg Concertos to try and get work with Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg. Perhaps not realising that he was dealing with one of the great musical geniuses of the time, the Margrave didn't even bother to get back in touch with Bach.
And here is Nikolaus Harnoncourt's interpretation (Johann Nikolaus Graf [Count] de la Fontaine und d’Harnoncourt-Unverzagt; 6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble, Concentus Musicus Wien.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d’Harnoncourt-Unverzagt in Berlin, Germany. His mother, Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the great-granddaughter of the Habsburg Archduke Johann, the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II, making him a descendant of various Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalty and his father was Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9N0qt_HXdA
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Hanneke is the Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society Medieval Renaissance Summer Festival.
Can there be a better job? :2thumbsup;
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This is one of the most beautiful compositions by J.S Bach (1685-1750) from his Brandenburg Concertos,
Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major (written in 1721), BWV 1051: Adagio, ma non tanto
I often listen to the Brandenburg Concertos while I'm doing housework upstairs. I kid you not. Bach and Sia.
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Sometimes need a little Enya to relax and escape. :kickstart; Makes me want to get on a bike and disappear for a while down the road. And keep on going.
https://youtu.be/5S-5GpKUdj8
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Who knows what the masters might do...they got their big deals goin on, goin on...got nothing to do with me and you... >:D
Golden Gates by John Cougar Mellencamp
https://youtu.be/6a0gU_klr2M
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I put my faith into God, not man. For me, the song I posted above is about that. I pray things get better for all of us. :pray;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmQBFLJAIcY
Etude no. 3 in E major Opus 10 no. 3 "Tristesse" Frederic Chopin Performed by Murray Perahia.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsE8TZ-eZ-w
JOHANN CASPAR FERDINAND FISCHER 1670 -1746 Chaconne in F played by Matteo Imbruno in the OUDE KERK (= Old Church)...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_LDicVJZ4
Johann Pachelbel (baptised September 1, 1653 – buried March 9, 1706): Chaconne in F minor ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbwl3PF7aEg
Maurizio Pollini plays Chopin Prelude op.28 no.24
Published on Apr 9, 2012
Recorded in Paris (Cité de la musique) June 25th 2002, last encore
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Ozzy's "Crazy Train", Someone has it as their ringtone at hubby's dialysis clinic. :thumbup;
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Ozzy's "Crazy Train", Someone has it as their ringtone at hubby's dialysis clinic. :thumbup;
Now there is something I haven't thought of as a ring tone... probably have the "all aboard" scream at the beginning of the song as a notification... *G*
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Riki, Hubby and I smile every time we here it. Love that song, and when we figured out which patient had it..........I told him so and he said that he was hard of hearing and that was the ringtone he could hear best. :)
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Riki, Hubby and I smile every time we here it. Love that song, and when we figured out which patient had it..........I told him so and he said that he was hard of hearing and that was the ringtone he could hear best. :)
My mom is hard of hearing too.. she's also a Loverboy fan, so I put Turn Me Loose on her phone as a ringtone.. she can hear it over the looms where she works..
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Adagio after Marcello BWV974 ( harpsichord transcription by Johann Sebastian Bach ) - Alexandre Tharaud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIo8dtYyDM
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue D Minor, BWV 565 : Hannes Kästner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSCLFDhihw8
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F4O84_y8ew
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Mvt. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0
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In memory of 11 September 2001 - Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PWdOoOQjI
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Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German-born conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century.
Here he conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra: Wagner's Tannhauser Overture (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu5MfaKDoq4
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I heard this one the other day, and loved it so much, I bought the whole album... *L*
it's called Quarter Past Heartache by Sarah Partridge and Janis Ian.. I think the video sucks, but the song is cute..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNhuGgxiRU
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Maria Callas - Puccini - Suor Angelica : Senza mamma
Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico (Triptych). It received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cABdxdjVNxw
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For the last couple of weeks, I've been listening to the soundtrack for Come From Away.. not bad... they don't quite have the Newfoundland accents down.. but that's okay... it's not an easy accent to master... *L*
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Joep Beving - Solipsism - Midwayer - Album launch - Amsterdam - March 2015.
"Joep Breving's music is the antidote to that hectic world of uncertainty and fear – a soundtrack for a kinder, more hopeful future; a score for the unmade film of lives yet to come. “It’s pretty emotional stuff,” agrees Joep. “I call it ‘simple music for complex emotions’. It’s music that enhances images, music that creates a space for the audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ls_LTGBTcE
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I love this sound. Takes me to some place else. :angel;
Hans Zimmer -from the movie True Romance
https://youtu.be/yLawuPj4I9o
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Julie Andrews "LE JAZZ HOT" (1982) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJPAptAa5I
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Je suis malade Lara Fabian - French & English ...
.... she is a true artist ... and she really means it ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVvlmpo5g9k
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Lara Fabian -- Je t'aime (London, Royal Albert Hall 30.03.2011) Mikhail Gorbachev 80th Birthday ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9U9E_jcgM
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Beautiful , kinda reminds me of Celine, she belts it out good too. How bout Julie Andrews, I always thought she would fall in love with me if she ever meet me.
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Video "For The Love Of A Princess" - composed by James Horner, Mark Fowler on the piano.
A strange title for a wonderful piece of music played by my one of my favourite pianists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3I39KNhZE
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Absolutely lovely,Would love to learn.
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Happy Bastille Day, mes amis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhQkku7jLfo
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Happy Bastille Day, mes amis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhQkku7jLfo
Vive la France ! Vive la liberté ! :wine;
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Jean Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) : Andante Festivo (composed in 1922 and rescored in 1938)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRw9N9OlPo
and here the same Andante Festivo with different instruments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtI1gMacvqo
and here Sibelius conducts Andante Festivo in 1939 with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radion sinfoniaorkesteri), New Year's Eve Radio Broadcast :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXI8tnibmI
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) - Piano - Prélude - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VE-ys8n_c
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) : Allemande BWV 815, Robert Hill plays the lute-harpsichord (adorable sound!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woh8UHdjl1M
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Archangelo Corelli (1653 – 1713) "La Follia" played by the Baroque flautist Franciscus (Frans) Brüggen (1934 – 2014).
Frans Brüggen was a Dutch recorder player, conductor and musicologist who brought the recorder out of the classroom and into the concert hall as a serious musical instrument.
He also collected original instruments and here he plays "La Follia" on an original instrument of Corelli's time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQRMJ___OHA
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) - Piano - Prélude - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-VE-ys8n_c
Beautiful,Reminds me of myself.
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One of the most favourite Orchestras : Orchestre De Chambre Pro Arte De Munich Director Kurt Redel (1977 Vinyl)
J. Pachelbel's Canon in D-Major and Ciacona in F-Minor - Pro Arte ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HAq_wKOr0
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The Furey Brothers : From Clare To Here (Traditional Irish Tune)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx-6IesULmw
There's four who share the room
And we work hard for the craic
And getting up late on Sunday's
I never get to mass
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
Oo, It's a long, long way; it gets further day-by-day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
When Friday night comes around
And he's only into fighting
My mum would like a letter home
But I'm too tired for writing
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
O, It's a long, long way; it gets further day-by-day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
And the only time that I feel alright
Is when I'm into drinking
It ease off the pain a bit
And levels out my thinking
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
O, It's a long, long way; it gets further day-by-day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
When it almost breaks my heart
When I think of Josephine
I promised I'd be coming back
With pockets full of green
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
O, It's a long, long way; it gets further day-by-day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
I dream I hear a 'piper playing
Maybe it's a notion
I dream I see white horses danc'
On that other ocean
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
O, It's a long, long way; it gets further day-by-day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here ...
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My Little Welsh Home - Bryn Terfel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4ed1FLnt0
My Little Welsh Home composed by William Stanley Gwynn Williams (April 4, 1896 – 13 November 1978)
was a musician and composer, also lecturer, author, editor and broadcaster on the history of British and in particular Welsh music.
He was prominent in the foundation of the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen, Wales in 1947 and become its first musical director.
I am dreaming of the mountains of my home
Of the mountains where in childhood I would roam
I have dwelt 'neath southern skies
Where the summer never dies
But my heart is in the mountains of my home
I can see the little homestead on the hill
I can hear the magic music of the Rhyl
There is nothing to compare
With the love that once was there
On the lonely little homestead of the hill
I can see the quiet churchyard down below
Where the mountain breezes wander to and fro
And when God my soul will keep
It is there I want to sleep
With those dear old folks that loved me long ago ...
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My Little Welsh Home composed by William Stanley Gwynn Williams (April 4, 1896 – 13 November 1978)
Off-topic but I stayed in Aberystwyth for about 4 months 20 years ago. Lovely coastal town. I'd like to go back there some day.
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Hello Paul, hopefully you can visit Aberystwyth again one day ...
Good luck and best wishes from Kristina. :waving;
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Georg Friedrich Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) Harp Concerto Op 4 No 6.
Handel was a German, later British, baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle, Germany and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British citizen in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.
Video for Georg Friedrich Handel - Harp Concerto Op. 4, No. 6 (1735) harp played by Nicanor Zabaleta (January 7, 1907 – March 31, 1993)
Nicanor Zabaleta was born in San Sebastián, Spain, on January 7, 1907. In 1914 his father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp in an antique shop and he soon began taking lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D7K4TJOxfQ
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The Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta (January 7, 1907 – March 31, 1993) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr1uKYaHPwQ
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Domenico SCARLATTI: Sonata in D minor (Aria), K32 - YouTube
played by "cubus", an alias for a professional pianist who has found a huge fellowship on youtube.
"cubus" is one of those very rare pianists who presents the character and soul of a composer and he has also a very special, magical way to play the piano and it sings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqtjPnu4Ngk
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Always loved this cute little tune. Surprised there is a video of it. :guitar:
Mouth & MacNeal "How Do You Do" 1972
https://youtu.be/gBDNjuazoUY
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Still hard to believe he's gone... :'( We were camping with friends when the little transistor radio broke the news. Our mothers sat at the picnic table and cried.
Elvis Presley "Suspicious Minds"
https://youtu.be/Wb0Jmy-JYbA
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Muzio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) created some great compositions for the Pianoforte
and Maria Tipo (on youtube) with her individual Clementi-interpretations is a great inspiration:
Maria Tipo - CLEMENTI Piano Sonata in F# minor, op.25 no.5 - II ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5G-0PkZGE
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Muzio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) created some great compositions for the Pianoforte
and Maria Tipo (on youtube) with her individual Clementi-interpretations is a great inspiration:
Maria Tipo - CLEMENTI Piano Sonata in F# minor, op.25 no.5 - II ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5G-0PkZGE
Thank you for posting some Maria Tipo, kristina! I ended up watching several of her other videos as well. I admit, I am not much into classical but it relaxes me. Sometimes it invigorates me. Depends on my mood. Would be a lot of fun to get dressed up and spend an evening at a real concert. No matter one's taste, there really is nothing quite like the experience of a live concert, especially with an orchestra or symphony!
Here's a fun "surprise concert".
https://youtu.be/fj6r3-sQr58
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Hello PrimeTimer, I am very glad that you enjoyed Maria Tipo's interpretation of Clementi's thought and the surprise concert is also very special...
Here is an unforgettable song by Edith Piaf : Non Je ne regrette rien with translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dLU8UOrPI
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Hello PrimeTimer, I am very glad that you enjoyed Maria Tipo's interpretation of Clementi's thought and the surprise concert is also very special...
Here is an unforgettable song by Edith Piaf : Non Je ne regrette rien with translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dLU8UOrPI
Thank you, kristina. I especially enjoyed this because it reminds me of the attitude my mother had towards life. "Live Each Day As If It's The Only One". That is why I like the tv commercial with Edith Piaf's song of "No regrets". Ahhh....if only it were that simple. I believe we end up complicating our own lives out of losing our taste and desire to live life pure and simple. I so much want a simple life but it is not that easy. I have to work on my attitude to keep things simple. Ever so slowly...I get there.
https://youtu.be/3sFSelSVFlo
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Many thanks PrimeTimer. One of my favourite sayings is: "I won't bother too much about tomorrow because it comes soon enough anyway..." and Edith Piaf certainly lived her life to the full!
... I shall send you a clip of a concert at the Royal Albert Hall Promenade Concerts with the very last concert of the 2012 season " Last night of the Proms"...
This concert was not only played at the Royal Albert Hall but also shown in Hyde Park through a huge screen.. and the concert is completely mind-blowing...
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgl_2JRIUs
... and must not forget the very last song which follows Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory" and that is Parry's composition:
Parry - Jerusalem (Last Night of the Proms 2012) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOFHVXE6yWs
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"Love shack" while in the pool doing Aqua aerobics
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Maurice André (born 21 May 1933 in Alès and died 25 February 2012 in Bayonne) was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field.
Video for Maurice André playing the trumpet concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufGl19HiAC0
This is so beautiful, eternally valid and so very true !
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Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill / Pearl Fishers Duet - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYt2HlBuyI
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Bach. The Count Kaiserling - Goldberg Variations - Aria - YouTube
Video for Goldberg Variations barenboim▶ 4:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXXkcZ2jWM
For this work we have to thank the instigation of the former Russian ambassador to the electoral court of Saxony, Count Kaiserling, who often stopped in Leipzig and brought with him his servant Goldberg, in order to have Goldberg given musical instruction by Johann Sebastian Bach. Count Kaiserling was often ill and had sleepless nights. At such times, Goldberg, who lived in his house, had to spend the night in an antechamber, so as to play for him these variations during his insomnia. …
...Daniel Barenboim is "usually" not one of the favourite pianists ... according to rumour, he left his first wife, Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987), who was one of the most distinctive and legendary cellists of the second half of the twentieth century, when she was starting to be unwell with Multiple Sclerosis & it is alleged that she died all alone shortly after, whilst he already lived with another woman... Rumour has it that the Music-loving-public has not quite forgiven him... He is also alleged to have "heavily" influenced her to change her religion ...
...and here is an excerpt of her truly great art:
Jacqueline du Pré: Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto, 1st Movement ...
Video for jacqueline du pre elgar cello concerto 1st movement allegrofilms▶ 2:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0jUQTCCQI
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I cannot single out one song. Recently the Wife and I were channel serfing and came upon a Musical called "Into The Woods". It is a well done, cute story of a Baker and His Wife's encounter with a Wicked Witch (played by Meryl Streep). This play combined a bunch of the traditional Fairy Tales of Cinderella, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and Rapunzel. We both liked it a lot. Neither of us generally like many musicals but this was pretty well done.
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Elgar: Enigma Variations "Nimrod" (the skillful hunter) · Berliner Philharmoniker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQWAO9d43LY
... One of the most beautiful pieces ever written ...
and here the same "Nimrod" conducted by:
Stokowski conducts "Nimrod" from Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQLyaiMieU
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My favourite violinist: Ruggiero Ricci (1918-2012)
Ricci was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.
Here he plays the Violin concerto by Max Karl August Bruch (1838-1920)
Video for Bruch / Ruggiero Ricci, 1957: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 - Movement 2 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcoqI_m2_EQ
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Edwin Fischer was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart of the twentieth century.
Born: 6 October 1886, Basel, Switzerland
Died: 24 January 1960, Zürich, Switzerland
Here he plays Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) BWV639 transcribed for the piano by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Edwin Fischer plays Bach-Busoni, BWV639 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrp2P9cM8pM
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Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) plays Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750 ): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Piano solo)
Dinu Lipatti plays Bach-Hess Chorale "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PNFDrcqmY
P.S. I had to search today (1.12.2017) for another site, where we can enjoy Dinu Lipatti playing Bach without any commercials "creeping in".
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Two renaissance dances (Erasmus Widmann, 1613), mandolin guitar ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkVEhUxvY8
Erasmus Widmann (1572-1634): Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel Neue Däntz und Galliarden.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 Salzburg, Austria -1791 Vienna ) at his very best ... composed shortly before his death ...
with paintings by Albert Bierstadt (born in 1830 Solingen Germany - 1902 New York City, New York, USA)
Mozart · Concierto para clarinete en La mayor K. 622 · Adagio - YouTube
Video for · Mozart · Concierto para clarinete en La mayor K. 622 · Adagio ·▶ 8:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5IKT_xue4o
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 Salzburg, Austria -1791 Vienna ) at his very best ... composed shortly before his death ...
with paintings by Albert Bierstadt (born in 1830 Solingen Germany - 1902 New York City, New York, USA)
Mozart · Concierto para clarinete en La mayor K. 622 · Adagio - YouTube
Video for · Mozart · Concierto para clarinete en La mayor K. 622 · Adagio ·▶ 8:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5IKT_xue4o
That was beautiful, kristina. Thank you for sharing something so light and fantastical. I laid my head down to listen to it with eyes closed. And when I opened them I felt the urge to want to drift away into the beautiful peace of the light in the paintings. Ah! Just to float away only momentarily felt restful. Real sweet music, peaceful and almost sinfully relaxing. Ha! It is late here now and I have this music in my head...floating away....good nite now. I wish you a good day for yourself.
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Many thanks for your kind thoughts PrimeTimer!
It makes me very happy to read that listening to the Adagio of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto evoked these wonderful thoughts and feelings in you!
That is what music is all about : conveying feelings, inspiring thoughts, assisting and calming ... in short, music is pure medicine ...
Thanks again and best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Shifting gears a little bit now...
My husband loves Glenn Miller. We listen when we're in the mood to party. Well, we don't actually "party" but the music livens up the place. It's more like a "party for two". We keep things very simple at home. It's great to have a partner to enjoy things like this with. We've been very busy lately so it's been a while since we just sat back and did nothing but listen to some music. We don't own a stereo. I have an old "boom box" from 1997 and well, like they say, "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Think I will crank it up today and play some of our favorites, including this...
https://youtu.be/8Qq2AV7Wx5w
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Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi (May 3, 1934 – May 23, 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Italo-Greek origin, best known for the poetic rhythm and simplicity of the songs he composed and often sang. Moustaki gave France some of its best-loved music by writing about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in that country, such as Édith Piaf, Dalida, Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, Cindy Daniel, Juliette Greco, Pia Colombo, and Tino Rossi, as well as for himself
Ma liberté - Georges Moustaki - French and English ... - YouTube
Video for Ma liberté - Georges Moustaki - French and English subtitles.mp4▶ 2:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CusCZ6Yijo
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) : Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Video for Bach / Wilhelm Kempff: Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (arr., Kempff)▶ 2:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elRTsN0LhPQ
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Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill / Pearl Fishers Duet - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYt2HlBuyI
Have any of you seen the original Swedish version of the TV show "Wallander"? If so, did you know that he named his dog Jussi after this tenor? Did you think you could get through your day without knowing this tidbit of important info? :P
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Two renaissance dances (Erasmus Widmann, 1613), mandolin guitar ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkVEhUxvY8
Erasmus Widmann (1572-1634): Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel Neue Däntz und Galliarden.
I love music from this time period. One of my favorite CDs is this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0E-QY6E8s
I especially love the tracks starting from the 17:00 minute mark. I was so surprised to hear them featured in the background during the dance scenes in the tv mini series "The Tudors".
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Thanks MooseMom, I agree and many of these Renaissance-music-pieces sound as if they are completely untouched by the tribulations of life and perhaps that makes them so appealing to us?
Today I let some years pass by and an old favourite came to mind, André Heller, who was always very poetic. In this love-song he declares, that she belongs to him like his own heartbeat ... He always sings in the broad and very cozy Vienna-dialect...
YouTube
André Heller - Wie mei Herzschlag - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dxRab1RWo
Artist: André Heller
Album: Stimmenhören (= listening to voices)
Released: 1983
... and, of course, must not forget the original :
Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sRJ-eOHnc
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Thanks MooseMom, I agree and many of these Renaissance-music-pieces sound as if they are completely untouched by the tribulations of life and perhaps that makes them so appealing to us?
Today I let some years pass by and an old favourite came to mind, André Heller, who was always very poetic. In this love-song he declares, that she belongs to him like his own heartbeat ... He always sings in the broad and very cozy Vienna-dialect...
YouTube
André Heller - Wie mei Herzschlag - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dxRab1RWo
Artist: André Heller
Album: Stimmenhören (= listening to voices)
Released: 1983
... and, of course, must not forget the original :
Elvis Presley - Always On My Mind - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sRJ-eOHnc
I just listened to Andre Hemmer and was reminded of Julio. He makes me melt. So does Elvis. :shy;
https://youtu.be/daUHurXDG5c
Happy New Year, Friends! ;musicalnote; :wine; :cuddle; May there always be the gifts of song, joy, love and friendship in your lives.
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Many thanks PrimeTimer for your lovely thoughts and I also wish you and everyone here all the best for 2018 with lots of wonderful music, lots of fun, love and friendship and mega-lots of good luck.
Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Johnny Hallyday - Allumer le feu - YouTube
Video Published on Jan 5, 2011 johnny chante allumer le feu a la tour eiffel▶ 6:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo8N0IMqEJw
Johnny Hallyday (15 June 1943 – 6 December 2017) was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.
During a career spanning 57 years, he released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, mainly in the French-speaking world. He won 5 diamond albums, 40 golden albums, 22 platinum albums and 10 Music Victories. Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows, he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and one time by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France, where he has performed 9 times. Among his shows the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in 1993, at the Stade de France in 1998 and at the Eiffel Tower in 2000, which are all regarded as record-breaking performances in terms of ticket sales for a French artist. A million spectators gathered to see his performance at the Eiffel Tower, joined by 9 million more watching on TV.
Hugely popular in France, he was usually referred to as simply "Johnny" and seen as a "national monument" (the only one since Edith Piaf). His exceptional longevity in public life made him a familiar figure for four generations and a symbol of the Thirty Glorious Years when he emerged in 1960. More than 2,500 magazine covers and 190 books have been dedicated to him during his lifetime. His personal life has been greatly exposed to the public, making him one of the persons most widely covered by the media in France along with Charles de Gaulle, Dalida and Brigitte Bardot during the 1960s. His death from cancer in 2017 was followed by a "popular tribute" during which a million people attended the procession and 15 million watched the ceremony on TV.
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... Today London is covered in snow and I certainly don't look forward to the journey to my d-session, let alone the return-journey back home afterwards... and there is only one song that springs to mind:
Nat King Cole - Let's Face The Music And Dance - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zQA8WGvl8
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Muzio Clementi composition played on a ~ 1805 Muzio Clementi pianoforte : Randall Love, a member of the Duke University music faculty plays Gradus ad Parnassum ...
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832), the "father of the pianoforte" was an Italian composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, Muzio Clementi toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London Cheapside. It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Muzio Clementi is buried in Westminster Abbey in the south cloister of the Abbey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRjzRamYck
Randall Love is a member of the Duke University music faculty where he teaches piano and fortepiano. The piano used for this performance is a Muzio Clementi Grand Piano (c.1805). It is part of the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections housed in the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building on the Duke University campus.
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One favourite comic scetch by Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The show was a significant part of British popular culture, and they have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced.
Morcambe & Wise - The Breakfast sketch - YouTube
Video for morecambe and wise breakfast sketch music▶ 2:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXF7NpocNg
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Thanks for posting that. They were one of my favourite acts growing up, but it is a few years since I've seen anything of theirs.
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Thanks for posting that. They were one of my favourite acts growing up, but it is a few years since I've seen anything of theirs.
Hello Paul, I am glad that you also enjoy these classics ! I always watch one or two of them on a "rainy day" and they never fail to cheer me up. Remember Charlie Drake conducting the 1812 ? Unforgettable ! Unfortunately these comedians are no longer with us and today I have heard in the news that Ken Dodd is no longer with us either ... Like the other gifted comedians, he was extremely individual and sadly enough, there are no others to follow in their footsteps. It is amazing, how much they cheered us up over the years and how many wonderful moments we could enjoy ! Each one of them had their special way and unfortunately modern comedians seem to miss the point .... a bit ... but fortunately with the help of the Internet we still can enjoy these magic moments!
Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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today I have heard in the news that Ken Dodd is no longer with us either
I saw Ken Dodd on stage about three years ago. He was in his late eighties. There were two support acts, and the rest of the show was entirely Ken Dodd. The show lasted for five hours, over four hours of that was just Ken Dodd. He told jokes, he sang, he did his vent act. The man was nearly ninety, and he kept this up for over four hours, occasionally telling the audience "Don't worry, I will let you go eventually." And this was part of a tour he was doing, a tour of five hour shows. He was a legend.
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Ken Dodd: https://youtu.be/WTpocBclDfE
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Many thanks Paul for sharing this wonderful youtube-clip with Ken Dodd.
The comedians of his time were all irreplaceable (I miss them all...) and you were very lucky to have seen Ken Dodd on stage.
Best wishes from Kristina and many thanks again :grouphug;
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P.S. I have just discovered a video-clip of Ken Dodd singing "Streets of London" in a very Dickensian sort of way:
Video for streets of london ken dodd▶ 3:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Jh0wleKQQ
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My very favourite composition by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759] .... and ... hopefully ... one day ...
... It is quite surprising to realize that the "mighty" Händel of such powerful compositions like his "Messiah"etc. could at the same time compose such an oversensitive and delicate composition like this Minuet in G minor ...
Khatia Buniatishvili - Handel Minuet in G minor HWV 434 (arr. W ...
Video for handel minuet in g minor▶ 3:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFQZnEuJSo
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This is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs. Guess I'm feeling a little philosophical these days. But that is okay.
https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM
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I had heard of a new production in London of Jesus Christ Superstar by the Regent's Park theatre group (I think that's the company's correct name, but I could be wrong) that won all sorts of awards in the UK.
This production is making its American debut at Chicago's Lyric Opera, of all places, so we attended a performance last week. It was astonishing, it truly was. I had seen it on Broadway back in the mid-seventies, so to be able to see it again as a new production, all of these years later, was incredible fun. There is nothing like live musical theatre! Such a thrill! And some of the company were in the Regent's Park production, so it was really special.
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Imagine Dragons
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Imagine Dragons
:thumbup;
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky "Moscow Nights" - YouTube
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died 22 November 2017 (aged 55) London, United Kingdom
Video for 3:42 KATYUSHA (КАТЮШA) - Dmitri Hvorostovsky "Moscow Nights"▶ 3:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRQA9HeXcpI
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"Где-То Далеко" Дмитрий Хворостовский (4.2003) - YouTube
Video for "Где-То Далеко" Дмитрий Хворостовский (4.2003)▶ 4:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy4390uAeq4
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky 16 October 1962 Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union - 22 November 2017 (aged 55) London, United Kingdom
The song he is singing is called " Somewhere far away "
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/gde-daleko-%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B5-%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE-somewhere-far-away.html-1#ixzz5GnFiddVR
Somewhere far away
Far away from this weary fray,
Keen heartache, all my dreams to forsake,
Bear me high into a cold grey sky
Taking wing to the home that waits there
From this place to the home that awaits me...
Days gone by, where the sunlight glints
On grass-lined banks, let me catch just a glimpse
Of those distant hills and those yearned-for shores,
Ach, if I could I would fly back to them
And I’d swim in those crystal waters…
Somewhere far away, very far away,
Raindrops are falling from high,
By the little stream, in the orchard glade,
Where boughs of cherries are bent to the ground.
Somewhere far away, in my memory,
Now, as in childhood, I see –
Though smothered, like rooftops,
With the dull, heavy snows of the winter –
Stormy skies, let your tears baptise
Souls that are scarred, but that's not all that we are,
Mesmerised, by what's been memorised,
I’ll lift my gaze to the wide blue yonder
And from there I will seek for the answer...
Far away from this weary fray,
Keen heartache, all my dreams to forsake,
Bear me high into a cold grey sky
Taking wing to the home that waits there
From this place to the home that's awaiting me.
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Amadeus Electric Quartet -She's The One
With the weekend upon us, thought I'd share some uplifting music I just discovered. I think these ladies have a sense of humor and their music is awesome. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/FenMX_cGDvc
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Kristina, he's such a nice vocalist! Are you familiar with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau? Oh, he makes my heart swell.
PrimeTimer, I was unfamiliar with the Amadeus Electric Quartet, so thank you for the link. They're very entertaining and creative!
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What is love? Love is the feeling of your heart being emptied by grief only to be filled again with happy memories.
I Will Always Love You
by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc
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... Today I heard a lovely musical "evergreen" ...
Video for Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin neo1az▶ 6:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUqfRrWwcM
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:thumbup;
What is love? Love is the feeling of your heart being emptied by grief only to be filled again with happy memories.
I Will Always Love You
by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc
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:thumbup;
What is love? Love is the feeling of your heart being emptied by grief only to be filled again with happy memories.
I Will Always Love You
by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc
What is love? Love is the feeling of your heart being emptied by grief only to be filled again with happy memories.
I Will Always Love You
by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc
:thumbup;
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Charlie Chaplin - Hungarian Dance No. 5 composed by Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Video for Charlie Chaplin with composition by Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5▶ 2:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vos4eXSM9qA
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One, Two, Three - American comedy directed by Billy Wilder with James Cagney (1899 – 1986) and Liselotte Pulver (born in 1929 in Bern, Switzerland) & many other actors and here she dances the lively Sabre Dance, composed by Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (1903 Tbilisi, Georgia - 1978 Moscow, Russia)
Video for one two three sabre dance▶ 2:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaUnwmJoy4s
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The Raven Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
The Raven in HD by The Alan Parsons Project - YouTube
Video for The raven in HD by The Alan Parsons Project▶ 4:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUeXkzUjM
This album was released in the UK originally with a different name. Simply called The Alan Parsons Project, it was successful enough to achieve gold status but later that year the same album was released under the name of Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
Lyrics:
The clock struck midnight
And through my sleeping
I heard a tapping at my door
I looked but nothing lay in the darkness
And so I turned inside once more
To my amazement
There stood a raven
Whose shadow hung above my door
Then through the silence
It spoke that one word
that I shall hear forever more
Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore
Quoth the raven, nevermore
Thus quoth the raven
Nevermore
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Encore 2: Händel "Menuet" - YouTube
Video for Encore 2: Händel "Menuet"▶ 5:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gGRxDoMaFI
Georg Friedrich Händel
23 February 1685
Halle-upon-Saale, Magdeburg Germany
Died 14 April 1759 (aged 74)
London, England
This "Menuet" by Händel is played by İdil Biret (born 21 November 1941 in Ankara, Turkey) a concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.
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Top Tracks - Joanna Leach - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD622LsHaqwm22iekLjs8GACers7R3POl
Joanna Leach (1937 - 2011) specialized very early to play on Square Pianos which were produced at the time of composers like Muzio Clementi, John Field, Beethoven and Chopin. She played their compositions on pianofortes of that time and had a most fascinating collection of very rare antique pianofortes ... and ... she was also a very inspiring piano teacher.
For many years she battled with cancer and unfortunately in 2011 she lost her battle. She is very much missed by many admirers of her beautiful art and I feel very lucky to have known her ...
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We've just finished watching the final season of The Detectorists, a gentle and beautifully written British comedy about two men who are metal detectorists (NOT "metal detectors", as those are the machines, not the people who use them!) who are searching for treasure, hopefully gold.
Two pieces of music from the series keep running through my head. This first one ends a scene in which our two detectorists find a whistle and wonder how it came to be there. The music is from The Unthanks and is called "Magpie" for reasons you will see in the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6gSYHJhuCw
And this is a link to the theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q58Gm18-IMY
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Top Tracks - Joanna Leach - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD622LsHaqwm22iekLjs8GACers7R3POl
Joanna Leach (1937 - 2011) specialized very early to play on Square Pianos which were produced at the time of composers like Muzio Clementi, John Field, Beethoven and Chopin. She played their compositions on pianofortes of that time and had a most fascinating collection of very rare antique pianofortes ... and ... she was also a very inspiring piano teacher.
For many years she battled with cancer and unfortunately in 2011 she lost her battle. She is very much missed by many admirers of her beautiful art and I feel very lucky to have known her ...
Tell me more about how you got to know her! I really enjoyed this music. Thanks so much for posting the link!
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What is love? Love is the feeling of your heart being emptied by grief only to be filled again with happy memories.
I Will Always Love You
by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc
In my very humble opinion, Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is one of the finest songs ever written. "I Will Always Love You" is close behind. Thanks for posting this. :thumbup;
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Top Tracks - Joanna Leach - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD622LsHaqwm22iekLjs8GACers7R3POl
Joanna Leach (1937 - 2011) specialized very early to play on Square Pianos which were produced at the time of composers like Muzio Clementi, John Field, Beethoven and Chopin. She played their compositions on pianofortes of that time and had a most fascinating collection of very rare antique pianofortes ... and ... she was also a very inspiring piano teacher.
For many years she battled with cancer and unfortunately in 2011 she lost her battle. She is very much missed by many admirers of her beautiful art and I feel very lucky to have known her ...
Tell me more about how you got to know her! I really enjoyed this music. Thanks so much for posting the link!
Top Tracks - Joanna Leach - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD622LsHaqwm22iekLjs8GACers7R3POl
Joanna Leach (1937 - 2011) specialized very early to play on Square Pianos which were produced at the time of composers like Muzio Clementi, John Field, Beethoven and Chopin. She played their compositions on pianofortes of that time and had a most fascinating collection of very rare antique pianofortes ... and ... she was also a very inspiring piano teacher.
For many years she battled with cancer and unfortunately in 2011 she lost her battle. She is very much missed by many admirers of her beautiful art and I feel very lucky to have known her ...
Tell me more about how you got to know her! I really enjoyed this music. Thanks so much for posting the link!
Hello MooseMom, I am very glad you enjoy the piano-art of Joanna Leach (1937-2011) and I shall try to do my best to answer your question ...
... Many years ago there came about a revival of "old" keyboard-music and many keyboard-music-pieces were played on historical instruments of their time and one of the most important musicians to instigate this revival was Professor Robert Thurston Dart (1921-1971), who played on historical keyboard instruments, in an effort to give a better understanding of composers and their instruments at the time of composing.
Keyboard music played on historical keyboard-instruments was also brought to the listener's attention by Richard and Katrina Burnett at their Finchcock Music Museum in Goudhurst, Kent, where Richard Burnett demonstrated the wonderful sound of his historical keyboard instrument-collection with historical keyboard-music of the time. For the listener it was always a great experience at Finchcocks to listen to keyboard-pieces, composed on historical keyboard-instruments and Finchcocks was always visited by many music-lovers from all over the country. Music-lovers with historical pianofortes had also the chance to be instructed at special classes and events, how to tune their historical pianofortes themselves at home and how to treat their instruments correctly ...
... And then there was, of course, Joanna Leach (1937-2011), who also played on her very own historical keyboard-instruments and there were some exhibitions of art and historical pianofortes, where she appeared to play on historical keyboard instruments to demonstrate their wonderful individual tonality and give the listener an idea of the wonderful sound of these historical instruments and one day my husband and I met her at one of these exhibitions and we were very impressed by her wonderful keyboard-playing and she made the listener aware of the individual tonality of these historical keyboard-instruments. She was a true keyboard music-lover and in a way we felt that she was also on a charitable mission to give music-lovers an idea of the wonderful individual tonality of these historical keyboard-instruments which were used by different composers at the time.
Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Thank you very much for the detailed reply, Kristina! That was very interesting. I have several recordings of baroque music played on instruments of that time, but I've never had the chance to see any of these performances in person. I'd love to be able to do that one day!
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Hello again MooseMom,
Hatchlands (National Trust) is home to the Cobbe Collection, an interesting group of keyboard instruments at Hatchlands Park, Guildford GU4 7RT and claims to have the largest group of musical instruments owned or played by famous composers to be seen together anywhere and there are often concerts given, even though the tickets can be a bit pricey... and travelling there is not too uncomplicated either...
Home - THE COBBE COLLECTION
www.cobbecollection.co.uk/
Another interesting visit could be the Royal College of Music in London
RCM Museum | Royal College of Music
www.rcm.ac.uk/museum/
and not to forget the Royal Academy of Music in Marylebone Road
Museum & Library - Royal Academy of Music
https://www.ram.ac.uk/museum
Interesting concerts are given there, also sometimes played on historical keyboard instruments.
Best wishes again from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Keyboard music played on historical keyboard-instruments was also brought to the listener's attention by Richard and Katrina Burnett at their Finchcock Music Museum in Goudhurst, Kent, where Richard Burnett demonstrated the wonderful sound of his historical keyboard instrument-collection with historical keyboard-music of the time. For the listener it was always a great experience at Finchcocks to listen to keyboard-pieces, composed on historical keyboard-instruments and Finchcocks was always visited by many music-lovers from all over the country.
Many years ago I took guitar lessons at evening classes. The teacher arranged a day trip to Finchcock Music Museum. Morning was spent looking at the collection, in the afternoon we were taken round the collection by Richard Burnett played the instruments and talked about them. Sort of a concert punctuated with short talks. But a concert on the hoof as not all the instruments he played were in the same room. It was one of the best musical events of my life.
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If anyone is interested in Finchcocks: http://www.finchcocks.co.uk/
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Keyboard music played on historical keyboard-instruments was also brought to the listener's attention by Richard and Katrina Burnett at their Finchcock Music Museum in Goudhurst, Kent, where Richard Burnett demonstrated the wonderful sound of his historical keyboard instrument-collection with historical keyboard-music of the time. For the listener it was always a great experience at Finchcocks to listen to keyboard-pieces, composed on historical keyboard-instruments and Finchcocks was always visited by many music-lovers from all over the country.
Many years ago I took guitar lessons at evening classes. The teacher arranged a day trip to Finchcock Music Museum. Morning was spent looking at the collection, in the afternoon we were taken round the collection by Richard Burnett played the instruments and talked about them. Sort of a concert punctuated with short talks. But a concert on the hoof as not all the instruments he played were in the same room. It was one of the best musical events of my life.
Hello Paul, I am so glad for you to have had this magical experience at Finchcocks Musical Museum as well, when Richard Burnett played his instruments and explained the history and little stories attached to them ! I remember particularly one very special Austrian keyboard instrument from around Mozart's times and it was so small that Richard Burnett, after playing a wonderful piece of keyboard-music on it, he took this fragile little instrument in his hands and walked around with it a little and it was just amazing and certainly a magical moment...
Great to know that you were there as well and such wonderful musical experiences can certainly open our eyes and ears and can last a life-time ....
Thanks for sharing and best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Keyboard music played on historical keyboard-instruments was also brought to the listener's attention by Richard and Katrina Burnett at their Finchcock Music Museum in Goudhurst, Kent, where Richard Burnett demonstrated the wonderful sound of his historical keyboard instrument-collection with historical keyboard-music of the time. For the listener it was always a great experience at Finchcocks to listen to keyboard-pieces, composed on historical keyboard-instruments and Finchcocks was always visited by many music-lovers from all over the country.
Many years ago I took guitar lessons at evening classes. The teacher arranged a day trip to Finchcock Music Museum. Morning was spent looking at the collection, in the afternoon we were taken round the collection by Richard Burnett played the instruments and talked about them. Sort of a concert punctuated with short talks. But a concert on the hoof as not all the instruments he played were in the same room. It was one of the best musical events of my life.
... there is a Guitar Masterclass with Sergio and Odair Assad taking place on Wednesday 26th September 2018 starting at 10 am at the Royal Academy of Music and an interview with the Assad-brothers takes place later at 3 pm. If you are interested, please check-up on it, as sometimes there may be some changes ... I have found in the past that coming along as a visitor and listening to a Masterclass is a most interesting opportunity to learn more about music and instruments. Mind you, I am not sure whether they ask now for a monetary contribution if you come along as a visitor, but hopefully it won't be much and hopefully you won't have treatments on a Wednesday either.
Best wishes and good luck from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Speaking of guitar music, another thing the guitar teacher took us to was a concert by Segovia, that was another unmissable event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Segovia
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Hello Paul, you lucky one! Unfortunately we could not attend any of his concerts, but we have collected - over the years - a few of his LP's and he is still the best!
Best wishes from Kristina.
Asturias - Andrés Segovia - YouTube
Video for Andre Segovia Asturias▶ 6:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2ZalhVKiM
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Hello Paul, you lucky one! Unfortunately we could not attend any of his concerts, but we have collected - over the years - a few of his LP's and he is still the best!
Best wishes from Kristina.
Asturias - Andrés Segovia - YouTube
Video for Andre Segovia Asturias▶ 6:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2ZalhVKiM
Who doesn't love this piece of music?!!! And Asturias happens to be a beautiful part of the world and is also the cradle of La Reconquista. Thanks for posting this!
We saw Paco de Lucia about a decade ago, and it was magical. Here is a link to another piece of music that just sings "Spain"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc
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Many thanks MooseMom for sharing this beautiful sensitive Adagio played by Paco de Lucía. It certainly could not be played any better or any more sensitive and many thanks again for sharing it with us ... where did you listen to him playing ?
Many thanks again from Kristina. :grouphug;
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A mile and a half away from the great classical music we have been discussing recently, I was put in mind of one of my favourite sixties singers today and looked up his old stuff on YouTube. I knew he started a come back a few years ago, and by accident I found footage of a recent concert of his. He is in his seventies now, and we are in the twenty first century, but he does not seem to realise the 1960s are over.
This track is over recorded, which would have ruined any other recording on this page. But it is perfect for this track (may have been deliberate) and the sound puts you in mind of those smokey, smelly, basement coffee shops of the 1960s, that I was too young to be allowed to go to while it was still the 1960s.
So here is, from some point in this century (although you would never have believed it if I had not told you that) the legend that is "The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown" (band's name, lead singer is Arthur Brown) with Kites
https://youtu.be/GMSqx9kDQ84
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) born in Venice, was a Baroque composer.
Concerto for Oboe D-minor Op.9
Oboe played by Pijus Paškevičius (10 yrs old)
Video for Tomaso Albinoni Concerto for Oboe D-minor Op.9 No.linas eriksonas▶ 13:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJBUai5kvkU
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Jacques Duphly (also Dufly, Du Phly; January 12, 1715 – July 15, 1789)[1] was a French harpsichordist and composer.
La De Drummond - Jacques Duphly - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr7QgcacH4
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I envy anyone who gets to see these guys in concert. Jeff Lynne is a genius, the group is so very talented. Wow, wow, wow!! Love them more now than I did as a kid. Funny how we take some of the most important pleasures (music) in life for granted. This is definitely fun feel good music that should be enjoyed and enjoyed often.
ELO "Twilight"
https://youtu.be/XGWR0U-Q73E
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J S Bach arr. F Busoni Chaconne in D minor (James Rhodes, piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ82pECqiUg
... One of the most difficult and most challenging pieces to play on the piano and James Rhodes certainly gave it his all, musically and artistically ...
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I consider SnoreRX to be the best (https://www.sfgate.com/market/article/snorerx-review-17335921.php) and envy anyone who gets to see these guys in concert. Jeff Lynne is a genius, the group is so very talented. Wow, wow, wow!! Love them more now than I did as a kid. Funny how we take some of the most important pleasures (music) in life for granted. This is definitely fun feel good music that should be enjoyed and enjoyed often.
ELO "Twilight"
https://youtu.be/XGWR0U-Q73E
You guys should really check out Mariusz Goli. He's a street guitarist from Poland. There are a ton of youtube videos of him and he's even released an album. I've been listening to his stuff for days now. Love it.
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You guys should really check out Mariusz Goli. He's a street guitarist from Poland. There are a ton of youtube videos of him and he's even released an album. I've been listening to his stuff for days now. Love it.
Beautiful guitar music. Could either relax or dance to it. Very crisp and clean sound. I'll have to check more of him out. Thanks for sharing.
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My father suffered from severe asthma when he was young. The only treatment back then was adrenaline. As he grew older, he took it upon himself to combat it by becoming a trumpeter. He became so good that he made a living out of it when he became a jazz trumpeter with traveling ensembles.
He knew how difficult it was to learn to play an instrument, that it took dedication and hours of practice. When I was young, my two best friends both took the obligatory piano lessons. I begged my dad for lessons, too, but he thought it was just a fad of mine that I would grow out of.
When I went to university, I took music theory and gradually learned to sight read well enough that, by the time I was a senior, I had been invited to sing in the elite choir on campus and was the only non-music major to do so. By the time the spring semester rolled around, my only scheduled classes were in foreign language and in rehearsals in three different choirs. Those were the days!
After I graduated, I did sing in one choir for a short time, but after that, I never did sing again.
Despite that, I still really enjoy good vocal ensembles. About 10 years ago, a group called KITKA performed locally. This is a group of women from the CA Bay Area who love performing traditional Eastern European vocal folk music. The only reason they performed here in Chicagoland was because one of there members is originally from here and wanted to perform for her family and friends.
They have just come out with a new CD, as they informed me by email. I had not thought of them in so long! So here is a link to one of my favorite selections on one of their earlier CD's, a piece they performed when they were here all of those years ago.
If you are not a big fan of Eastern European folk songs (and why would you not be? :rofl;), I think you could still appreciate the vocal beauty of these harmonies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuJjOw15zU
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Kitka is really different from my usual daily playlist but I second this suggestion. There's something about them that I love. It's pretty wonderful that their songs cover so much of the Eastern European world, from like Macedonia, to small Russian regions, to Georgia. Listening to them kind of makes me sad because I'd love to go back to those times of singing, music and folklore... even though I wouldn't have lasted long! :rofl; Still, if I listen to them, I always end up in the kitchen baking bread! The artwork for their album Wintersongs is one of my absolute favorites... but they are all so beautiful!
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Edith Piaf Édith Piaf, born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French vocalist, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
Non Je ne regrette rien with subtitled English Translation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dLU8UOrPI
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Edith Piaf (the little sparrow) "Milord" with English subtitles - video dailymotion
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1inir
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Edith Piaf (the little sparrow) "Milord" with English subtitles - video dailymotion
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1inir
She sings with such intimacy, like all she is doing is telling you a story.
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Thank you MooseMom,
The voice of Edith Piaf is just simply the best and listening to her, you can also feel that she has lived through it all ...
Her story sounds a bit like a terribly sad story, but nevertheless, it never beat her ...
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#aznavour"bohemian life" - "la boheme" with english translation | Art x ...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/85779567872629208/
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Viva La Quince Brigada - Pete Seeger and the Almanac singers ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnzwXVpZGrA
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), almost forty thousand men and women from fifty-two countries, including 2,800 Americans volunteered to travel to Spain and join the International Brigades to help fight fascism. The U.S. volunteers served in various units and came to be known collectively as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Song of the Volga Boatmen - Red Army Chorus - Leonid Kharitonov ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM
Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov (18 September 1933 – 19 September 2017) was a Russian bass-baritone singer. He was honoured with People's Artist of the RSFSR and Honored Artist of RSFSR. In the West he was noted for his Song of the Volga Boatmen.
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Song of the Volga Boatmen
Probably a sign I need to grow up and act my age: When I read your post my mind was not on the good music, my childish brain simply said "I'd never invite those boatmen to one of my dinner parties, they are so vulgar."
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Oh, I absolutely adore Leonid Kharitonov! He lived a long life was noted for his humility and kind character.
This remains one of my absolute favorite videos on all of YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_jdXLEFBpE
He showed such fun and personality!
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Many thanks Ukrainian Tracksuit for this wonderful song and for the cheeky interpretation by Leonid Kharitonov about the dark-eyed Cossack girl who looked after horses.
This song very much reminds me of a short story by Tolstoy about the beautiful daughter of a postmaster at an Inn, where horses were exchanged for busy travellers and where the postmaster's daughter suddenly disappeared without a trace and her father leaves all and desperately searches for his daughter for the rest of his life and then he was buried, a broken old man, still searching for his daughter, near the home where he had lived with his now disappeared daughter ... and many years later the daughter returns to visit his grave, together with her children and she spent a long time weeping at his grave.
Many years ago she had run away with a handsome aristocrat, whose family would never had allowed him to marry her, so he convinced her to become his lover and he "kept" her luxuriously as that from then on.
Because she lived unmarried with this aristocrat as his mistress, she could not possibly let her father know about this situation, as it was looked upon as being very shameful for a respectfully brought up beautiful young girl to do something like that, especially since this aristocrat already had a wife and children ... in Tolstoy's story the aristocrat obviously only thought of himself and had no regard for the feelings or future of this young girl when he convinced her to run away with him, without having the courage to talk about it with her father.
I don't know at the moment where this book is, but I remember vividly Tolstoy's short story, because it impressed me ever so much as a teenager, as it described the selfish character of this aristocrat and his victim, this young beautiful girl and the second victim, her father ...
Many thanks again to share with us this song by Leonid Kharitonov and ... I have to look again for my Tolstoy collection ... Best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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The Volga Boatmen - sung by Paul Robeson - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsWoNpHg2s
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
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After listening to something else on YouTube, it suggested I listen to Fascinating Aïda's song "So Sorry Scotland". Glad they did. Great song, great music, and it will also explain a very British current problem to non-Brits.
https://youtu.be/mVy7faNKEtM
(Translation of one British slang term in the song - Barnpot: North England/Scottish word for "idiot".)
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That's really funny, Paul! Somehow, though, I don't think the solution will be found in Scotland.
Thanks for posting this.
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Interesting opinion delivered in a :o language and it comes as no surprise that the film makes a point in mentioning that : "Comments are disabled for this video" :waiting; ... Crikey ! I thought that emotions had settled a little by now about Brexit, because, after all, it has been going on for quite a while and still may take some years to finally get settled ... ?
Thank you for posting this Paul, it is quite an eye-opener. :thx;
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I'm all over the spectrum, from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to the Pogues, the Cranberries and, from Katrina, the nocturnes of John Field. For running, I like trance or house or EDM, whatever you want to call it. At 180 bpm, it's exhilarating.
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After listening to something else on YouTube, it suggested I listen to Fascinating Aïda's song "So Sorry Scotland". Glad they did. Great song, great music, and it will also explain a very British current problem to non-Brits.
https://youtu.be/mVy7faNKEtM
(Translation of one British slang term in the song - Barnpot: North England/Scottish word for "idiot".)
Hello Paul,
Please tell me : to which Heathrow-Terminal are you mainly referring to, when you mention that "it" will also explain a very British current problem to non-Brits ?
Many thanks for answering from Kristina. :grouphug;
P.S. If you think it could be an inappropriate question to answer, it would be perfectly understandable ...
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I thought that emotions had settled a little by now about Brexit
Wow, you really don't read the news do you! Plenty of "Remain" supporting politicians are still getting death threats, or threats of violence from "Brexit" supporters. Some women MPs have even been told that, if Brexit does not happen, they will be to blame, and they will be raped in revenge! Believe me, it is about as far from "calmed down" as an active volcano next to a densely inhabited city. Rees-Mogg (the main pro-Brexit MP) has even threatened civil unrest if Brexit is delayed.
And on the other side (Remain) an anti-Brexit economist recently shocked John Humphreys by stripping naked while he interviewed her to make her point. (Bloody childish thing to do IMHO, but better than the Brexiteers who threaten violence, murder, and rape if politicians disagree with them. Although I do hope that the Brexiteers don't start stripping off too. I really really really do NOT want to see Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson naked.)
it comes as no surprise that the film makes a point in mentioning that : "Comments are disabled for this video
The reason comments are disabled on the video is probably because arseholes would post threats of violence and rape against the singers if they were left open.
Please tell me : to which Heathrow-Terminal are you mainly referring to, when you mention that "it" will also explain a very British current problem to non-Brits ?
Not sure what you are asking, I didn't mention Heathrow?
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I thought that emotions had settled a little by now about Brexit
Wow, you really don't read the news do you! Plenty of "Remain" supporting politicians are still getting death threats, or threats of violence from "Brexit" supporters. Some women MPs have even been told that, if Brexit does not happen, they will be to blame, and they will be raped in revenge! Believe me, it is about as far from "calmed down" as an active volcano next to a densely inhabited city. Rees-Mogg (the main pro-Brexit MP) has even threatened civil unrest if Brexit is delayed.
And on the other side (Remain) an anti-Brexit economist recently shocked John Humphreys by stripping naked while he interviewed her to make her point. (Bloody childish thing to do IMHO, but better than the Brexiteers who threaten violence, murder, and rape if politicians disagree with them. Although I do hope that the Brexiteers don't start stripping off too. I really really really do NOT want to see Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson naked.)
it comes as no surprise that the film makes a point in mentioning that : "Comments are disabled for this video
The reason comments are disabled on the video is probably because arseholes would post threats of violence and rape against the singers if they were left open.
Please tell me : to which Heathrow-Terminal are you mainly referring to, when you mention that "it" will also explain a very British current problem to non-Brits ?
Not sure what you are asking, I didn't mention Heathrow?
Hello Paul,
You are absolutely right with your thought that I may not read the daily papers and since I don't have a television-set, I don't listen and watch the daily news on TV either. Just now and then I listen to the radio. In my teenage years I once studied through some archive "old" newspapers at a University and that was quite a real eye-opener, because the real news were hardly ever reported and that was "it" for me from then on.
Thanks for writing about the interesting opinions about Brexit; emotions obviously still "run" very high ...
I still cannot make up my mind about it at all, except that I suspect some "racket" behind it all, but I don't know where it is coming from and what it might mean?
Thanks about the information and all the best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
P.S. Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson "threatening" to present themselves naked as some kind of protest or whatever ? Good gracious, what next? From what I "know" about them, I always suspected that there was not much class ...
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I still cannot make up my mind about it at all, except that I suspect some "racket" behind it all, but I don't know where it is coming from and what it might mean?
Thanks about the information and all the best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
P.S. Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson "threatening" to present themselves naked as some kind of protest or whatever ? Good gracious, what next? From what I "know" about them, I always suspected that there was not much class ...
There are plenty of people who believe that Putin had his hand in some of the discord that came during/after the referendum. Our respective foreign office/State department know that his dream is to see the destruction of NATO and the implosion of the EU, and it is understandable why he fears those two institutions in particular. Putin may well be "the racket".
Since this is a thread about music, I can't imagine anyone waxing lyrically about either Rees-Mogg or Johnson running about without their clothes. Imagine THAT soundtrack! :rofl;
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I still cannot make up my mind about it at all, except that I suspect some "racket" behind it all, but I don't know where it is coming from and what it might mean?
Thanks about the information and all the best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
P.S. Rees-Mogg or Boris Johnson "threatening" to present themselves naked as some kind of protest or whatever ? Good gracious, what next? From what I "know" about them, I always suspected that there was not much class ...
There are plenty of people who believe that Putin had his hand in some of the discord that came during/after the referendum. Our respective foreign office/State department know that his dream is to see the destruction of NATO and the implosion of the EU, and it is understandable why he fears those two institutions in particular. Putin may well be "the racket".
Since this is a thread about music, I can't imagine anyone waxing lyrically about either Rees-Mogg or Johnson running about without their clothes. Imagine THAT soundtrack! :rofl;
... Would not be surprised if it finally came out as a terrible toothache-symphony ... ? :laugh:
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Johann PACHELBEL: Ciacona in F minor, T206 - YouTube
I love the music of Pachelbel and try to avoid the commercials, but I am unfortunately not always lucky with it, sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxED1odw5GY
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... There is nothing to say except that here is a genius conductor who conducts the work of a genius composer ...
L'ouverture de Tannhäuser de Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFwlhBAoZz4
Video for Tannhauser Overture - Richard Wagner Karajan dirigee▶ 14:32
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My favorite song "Fly by night"- by the Artists " Rush".........on the " 2112 Overture" Album.
Saw a Documentary on the history of this bands. The core values and hard work renewed my interest. The precision of a three piece band is unbelievable!!!
Obviously though, not for everyone.
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Oh, that's a blast from the past!! :2thumbsup; That's a great song!
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Here's another blast from the past. Considering what the song is about and the fact that it was first recorded in 1978, it kind of freaks me out now to listen to it. Guess they knew where technology was taking us.
The video is from a live performance in 2004. I think they performed for the Royal Family. Dang! The Buggles still got it! Good for them!
https://youtu.be/IUgF49Rtg7Q
Here are the lyrics.
"Video Killed The Radio Star"
I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh a oh
I met your children
Oh a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh, a, a, a, oh
And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh-a oh
You were the first one
Oh-a oh
You were the last one
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put down the blame on VCR
Oh, you are a radio star
You are a radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
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These 2 Cellos will be playing in Chicago on March 26 (MooseMom.... ;) I absolutely love them! Anyone lucky to hear them perform will no doubt feel fulfilled and in love with life.
2Cellos Hallelujah
https://youtu.be/Z3649dq6boA
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Argh! That's tonight! I wish I had seen your post earlier about the 2 Cellos, Prime Timer; I would have tried to get into the city to see them. Thanks so much for the youtube link; no wonder you love them so much. Such a sweet, sweet sound...lovely tone!
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Argh! That's tonight! I wish I had seen your post earlier about the 2 Cellos, Prime Timer; I would have tried to get into the city to see them. Thanks so much for the youtube link; no wonder you love them so much. Such a sweet, sweet sound...lovely tone!
And they're kind of easy on the eyes....hee, hee….oh, if I was young again! :P Shhh! Don't tell!
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Yes, I did notice that. LOL! Your secret is safe with me, PT!
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It's the weekend! Hope all of you have some kind of "wonderful" going on!
The Drifters -Some Kind of Wonderful
https://youtu.be/nrqILBc8ow0
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A very convincing peace song by Adamo and Maurane :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtosoG-Dx1w
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Very nice, Kristina. She has a lovely alto!
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Thank you MooseMom,
Maurane (Claudine Luypaerts) was born on 12 November 1960 in Ixelles, Brussels, to Guy-Philippe Luypaerts, a composer and director of Académie de Musique of Verviers, and Jeannie Patureaux, a piano teacher. She was a singer and actress and died on the 7th May 2018 (aged 57) in Schaerbeek, Belgium.
Salvatore (Knight) Adamo (originally born in Sicily 1. November1943), is a singer and composer, has dual citizenship of Italy and Belgium. In 2001, Adamo was raised into the Belgian nobility (with the motto Humblement mais dignement) by King Albert II and given for life the Belgian noble title Ridder, translated into English as "Knight". He was appointed an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown in 2002. In 2014, Adamo was honoured at Victoires de la Musique in France.
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Just sharing a little music video I published this week. I hope it brings a smile :) https://youtu.be/SocNI9kvh_c (https://youtu.be/SocNI9kvh_c)
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Very nice, I really enjoyed it.
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Just sharing a little music video I published this week. I hope it brings a smile :) https://youtu.be/SocNI9kvh_c (https://youtu.be/SocNI9kvh_c)
Thank you Marilee for this great edit !
What surprised me most of all is that you and I could easily be sisters, because at that time we looked very much alike!
Your lovely edit brings back memories of our wedding in Gretna Green in Scotland, which took also place around that time.
Gretna Green is the first village in Scotland and has been used since the middle of the 18th century by "runaways" to marry over the anvil at the blacksmith's and is still being used by "runaways" to marry officially at the Registry Office, where usually a passer-by and/or a secretary at the registry office or similar act as their witnesses for the official part of their marriage and after that the newlyweds continue with their second wedding-ceremony over the anvil at the blacksmith's near the Registry Office, where they receive from the blacksmith the Gretna-Green-over-the-anvil-marriage-certificate. In the old days (midst 18th century) weddings were conducted for "runaways" only by the blacksmith over the anvil and at that time that alone was completely legal and could not be questioned by angry parents.
Many thanks again for this lovely edit, it brings back many happy memories ! :grouphug;
P.S. I have tried to show an example of the beautiful music they play in Gretna Green on their bagpipes ... but it did not work, unfortunately I could not transfer one of the new bagpipe-videos ...
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I am very sorry that my input was edited again ... :grouphug;...
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Oh, Kristina! Thank-you so MUCH for sharing the history of runaway weddings in Gretna Green. My folks' folks hail from Ireland and Wales - maybe that's why we look a bit similar? My actual sister is the blonde beside me in so many photos. She took after the Irish side (Mom with her red hair & green eyes) while I took after Dad (with the nearly-black hair). I have traveled to many countries for work, but never made it to the British Isles, and would sincerely love to visit some time.
Thanks so much for watching, listening and sharing :) .
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Paul - Thanks so much for watching, and I'm glad it was enjoyable. :) :) :)
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Gosh, Marilee, your video has made me cry. It was incredibly moving.
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Tribute to Ludwig II of Bavaria, "The Swan King" or the eccentric "Fairy Tale King" (1845 - 1886) who succeeded to the throne at the age of 18 years and thought out, sketched, constructed and built the most wonderful castles i.e. Neuschwanstein Castle and he also sponsored the music etc. of Richard Wagner and died under mysterious circumstances in 1886.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHU7On8WKE
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André Rieu with his orchestra in Rome : Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0A8WoCqYg
P.S. Sorry about the commercials, tried very hard to do without, but unfortunately they are there all the same for us to endure ...
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Sorry, it did not work, shall try another time again. :oops;
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Oh, my goodness, I love "Nella Fantasia" and the Oboe. Thanks for the share, Kristina :)
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Many thanks Marilee and here are the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards playing "The Dark Island" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc40W1YLiR0
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A new recording of mine, here is "Ocean Eyes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA)
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A new recording of mine, here is "Ocean Eyes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA)
That's nice, thanks for sharing.
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... Thinking about "you know what" etc. : Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century.
Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence (?), during the time of the House of Stuart in the Kingdom of Scotland and the House of Tudor in the Kingdom of England.
Their ranks consisted of both Scottish and English people, and they raided the entire Border country....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uvpG4f03js
P.S. Sorry, I forgot to mention that England voted for Brexit whereas Scotland wishes to remain in the EU, so therefore ...
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A new recording of mine, here is "Ocean Eyes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vir7JvXrRA)
Many thanks Marilee. It is quite impressive. Did you sing and edit it all by yourself?
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Thanks Iolaire and Kristina, for checking out my little video :D !
Yes, this is all a one-gal operation. I have this instrument, called a Qchord: I played and sang into the computer to create audio file. Then I found the imagery online and glued it all together with some video editing software. I still have so much to learn about audio balancing, volume levels, video transitions, color correcting and so much more - it's a nifty hobby that I can do right here in the front room while hubby is sleeping :) .
The song is not one I would have chosen - another musician online suggested I learn it - so this forced me outside my 'comfort zone' and gave me more opportunities to try new things.
Music: I love what music can be.
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Congratulations Marilee, this is just wonderful and the result is stunning!
All the best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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That's really quite lovely, Marilee. Thank you! A true artist is always eager to get outside her comfort zone and learn new ways to express herself through music. You've done well here!
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Oh, thank-you MooseMom and Kristina!
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Reinhard Mey: No, I'll not give u my sons / Nein meine Söhne gebe ich nicht english subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbkUEPWJkqc
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I've loved "Bollywood" (films made in India) films for many years. I love the epic stories with the dancing, the singing and the beautiful costumes. We have to travel about half an hour to find a cinema that regularly shows the newest films released in the US.
So, imagine my surprise when a local cinema in my little city waaaaay in the western 'burbs of Chicago started devoting one screen (out of 18) to Indian films! I couldn't believe it! We have spent most of the past weekend watching the two films on offer. Both were, as is the custom, about 3 hours long. It was such fun.
The film we saw yesterday is in Telugu, the dominant language spoken in the south east of India. As is also the custom, there was an epic fight scene at the end, where the good guy singlehandedly defeats a small army of baddies, accompanied by a song that has just one vocalist, and it was awesome!
So, for something just a little bit different, here is that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QNW3guTYU8&fbclid=IwAR3z3NY-y8L8Uzc9IeDL5wnBfvI4sMkXECxp6xdIBzjNmZTGZrxZpCNDyew
P.S. I have no idea what the lyrics are in English. "Take THAT, you dastardly fiend.", or "I can fight and smoke a cigarette at the same time because I'm so cool."
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Don't mess with the Gurkhas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Shrestha
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Feel like sharing a little music with you folks today. This is Chicago's "Color My World" from 1970. As I've gotten older I've come to appreciate music I think more than I did when I was young and going to concerts. Hope you find a little peace and enjoy this one.
Chicago "Color My World"
https://youtu.be/pKvNoC0SRoY
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Blast from the past!
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I've only once had the opportunity to attend an IHD meet up in Las Vegas, and that was back in 2011. I remember hearing "Pumped up Kicks" in the lobby of the hotel at which we were staying, and it has stayed with me ever since. It's a catchy tune, and because I heard it while visiting with this special group of people, it brings back nice memories. It's not really a great work of art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
I'm posting about this because I've come across a really clever cover by "Hildegard von Blingin" (if you know of Hildegard von Bingen, you'll get the joke).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg
Lastly, I think my favorite song of all time is Dolly Parton's "Jolene", and here is what Hildegard von Bligin' did with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=203&v=ugqQlB5fpuc&feature=emb_logo
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... Sometimes life deals us terrible blows and as a result we despair.
When my “two little fighters” first failed, I arrived in the nearest A&E-Hospital in a deep coma. It must have been January/February 1971 and when I was discharged it was late summer when my “two little fighters” were “standing on their own feet again” to continue and try their hardest to build-up again.
Of course I was crest-fallen about my future and all the big plans I had and then, all of a sudden the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (17th December 1770 – 26th March 1827 entered my life and I discovered his revolutionary wonderful thoughts, against all the odds, put into music and it assisted my build-up, mainly because I really felt understood. His life was unbelievable difficult. At first the gifts of the young boy were exploited by his alcohol-needy parents. After that, many patrons exploited him for their social prestige etc. and all his compositions are a mirror of disappointments, feelings, anger, visions, loneliness, and so many more different thoughts, all expressed in a very understandable way.
Thanks to You Tube a very true film about Beethoven can be watched : “Eroica” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVnfEuCvBGA
... plus, if and when I feel I could do with a little encouragement, I love to listen to : Beethoven/Egmont Overture/Karajan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-CehMCB9U
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... Sometimes life deals us terrible blows and as a result we despair.
When my “two little fighters” first failed, I arrived in the nearest A&E-Hospital in a deep coma. It must have been January/February 1971 and when I was discharged it was late summer when my “two little fighters” were “standing on their own feet again” to continue and try their hardest to build-up again.
Of course I was crest-fallen about my future and all the big plans I had and then, all of a sudden the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (17th December 1770 – 26th March 1827 entered my life and I discovered his revolutionary wonderful thoughts, against all the odds, put into music and it assisted my build-up, mainly because I really felt understood. His life was unbelievable difficult. At first the gifts of the young boy were exploited by his alcohol-needy parents. After that, many patrons exploited him for their social prestige etc. and all his compositions are a mirror of disappointments, feelings, anger, visions, loneliness, and so many more different thoughts, all expressed in a very understandable way.
Thanks to You Tube a very true film about Beethoven can be watched : “Eroica” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVnfEuCvBGA
... plus, if and when I feel I could do with a little encouragement, I love to listen to : Beethoven/Egmont Overture/Karajan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-CehMCB9U
Did you know that "it was speculated" that Beethoven may have had Sarcoidosis, liver and kidney failure? His story is interesting. I think his love of music and humanity gave him the will to push on despite his illnesses.
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I've only once had the opportunity to attend an IHD meet up in Las Vegas, and that was back in 2011. I remember hearing "Pumped up Kicks" in the lobby of the hotel at which we were staying, and it has stayed with me ever since. It's a catchy tune, and because I heard it while visiting with this special group of people, it brings back nice memories. It's not really a great work of art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
I'm posting about this because I've come across a really clever cover by "Hildegard von Blingin" (if you know of Hildegard von Bingen, you'll get the joke).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg
Lastly, I think my favorite song of all time is Dolly Parton's "Jolene", and here is what Hildegard von Bligin' did with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=203&v=ugqQlB5fpuc&feature=emb_logo
Those are great!
Have you watched these twin brothers on youtube, from Indiana, who grew up on hip hop - film themselves listening to other music genre for the first time. Jolene is one of the best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pEPFYiJOXU :clap; :clap; :clap;
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Oh yes! I've indeed seen "the twins". As a matter of fact, I think somewhere in this thread I posted their reaction to Jolene. I'm always impressed when people, especially young people, step outside their musical comfort zones. I heard one of them being interviewed on WGN radio here in Chicago. I was a little disappointed to hear him being a bit, well, dull. I was surprised. But perhaps he was tired because he had been talking to SO many news outlets.
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I've only once had the opportunity to attend an IHD meet up in Las Vegas, and that was back in 2011. I remember hearing "Pumped up Kicks" in the lobby of the hotel at which we were staying, and it has stayed with me ever since. It's a catchy tune, and because I heard it while visiting with this special group of people, it brings back nice memories. It's not really a great work of art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
I'm posting about this because I've come across a really clever cover by "Hildegard von Blingin" (if you know of Hildegard von Bingen, you'll get the joke).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg
Lastly, I think my favorite song of all time is Dolly Parton's "Jolene", and here is what Hildegard von Bligin' did with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=203&v=ugqQlB5fpuc&feature=emb_logo
Those are great!
Have you watched these twin brothers on youtube, from Indiana, who grew up on hip hop - film themselves listening to other music genre for the first time. Jolene is one of the best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pEPFYiJOXU :clap; :clap; :clap;
Many thanks Okarol for sharing ! Their reaction is so sweet, isn't it ?
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An old evergreen - or should I say an old future-doom-possibility ... ? :grouphug;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
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" Noble, romantic and awe-inspiring: The Rhine River has many facades and has been admired by travellers for centuries. The Rhine flows through six countries : Switzerland, Principality of Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands before flowing into the North Sea at Rotterdam.
Victor Hugo called it a "fine river."
English landscape painters presented a portrait of "Rhine Romanticism" to the world.
On the Upper Rhine, the Nibelungs' treasure was hidden, on the Middle Rhine the Lorelei caused ships to capsize.
The Rhine also forms the border between Germany and France. It is a European River and a crucial transport route from the metropolises on the Lower Rhine all the way to the North Sea. "
....Many years ago I watched an interesting documentary about the Rhine River - or, as "he" is called on the Continent "Father Rhine" ... and towards the end of the documentary, where "Father Rhine" flows into the North Sea the following song by Vangelis was played and it left the viewer with a mysterious feeling ... about nature ... history etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwFTkooHnPs
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But do they really pour blue dye into the Danube?
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But do they really pour blue dye into the Danube?
If you ask anyone in any of the beautiful cafe-houses in Vienna (meeting point of composers of music and composers of letters, books etc.), they'll assure you, that the blue Danube is the most beautiful river in the whole world and, of course, such a natural beauty does not need any enhancement at all.
Of course, there might be some non-believers around and they might claim, that the Danube might need some enhancement, but of course, that is not necessarily the truth and strongly disputed by the Viennese.
Adding to that, it also should be pointed out, that the Viennese provide a very tasty "Muskateller"-wine, (Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains), which might turn - as I have been told - after the second glass - "things" into your favourite colour, which, in Vienna, is of course, the most beautiful Blue Danube ...
A similar phenomena - as I have been told - might happen near Loch Ness in Scotland, when you leave the Pub after a first or second glass of their most famous whiskey ... when Nessie might come along and kindly accompany you on your way home .... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBPUundF1dA
P.S. I do hope you can listen to the Blue Danube Waltz and watch the accompanying film without some of these terrible commercials ... :waving;
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As a teenager I first studied at College some of the translated works of Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) and I remember being very impressed and could not wait to read his thoughts without translation and in his language. Reading more about him as a writer, it also impressed me to learn, how his writings improved during his time in Paris at the home of his personal mentor Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946), who also acted as an “advocate of the avant-garde”, and who, if I remember correctly, assisted him to “cut shorter sentences” to “create” more of an impact on the reader.
One of my favourite short-stories “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, was later also visually developed into a most interesting film-adaption starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardener (1952). The ending is not quite fitting the original story by Hemingway, but is still very impressive in terms of the emotions involved.
Because of the great success of the short-story and movie, the following song was eventually created.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XycHpJhEuH4
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Today, I feel like listening to 4 Non Blondes - What's Up. Just feeling it.
A few weeks from now, we'll be filled with Christmas music.
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This wonderful & calming Adagio is by Domenico Zipoli (1688 - 1726), a highly underrated composer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTMAoRceJY
(... and hopefully there are no commercials ...)
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Moonlight Sonata played for an old Elephant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AcjvsVn5k
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Moonlight Sonata played for an old Elephant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AcjvsVn5k
I just saw a story in the British press about this pianist along with some video, but this particular video I have not seen. It's lovely. Thank you for posting this link.
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http://www.musicforelephants.com/
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Thanks MooseMom for this lovely "musicforelephants"-link.
... and here is a very cheeky "oldie" song that never fails to make people smile a little ... :waving;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH800q8qQsg
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Been listening to a lot of Christmas songs. I'm feeling the mood. ;D
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I have just found English subtitles to this wonderful song in the Italian language ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AahA6Uttma0
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I recently watched a documentary about the Bee Gees. I must admit that when I was younger I only related them to the disco era and Saturday Night Fever. Now, as an older person and having read up on them, I appreciate their music, talent and story even more. I never knew just how far back their careers went and how hard they worked at it. And I never knew just how many hits they wrote for other performers. These gentlemen were truly truly talented. It's sad that we are without Maurice, Robin and Andy but we still have Barry! And he's got a new album!
Love, love these guys! So energetic, fun and sexy! This is from their 1989 concert recently shown again on PBS.
Solo performance by Barry
https://youtu.be/K0GjEKVbUSU
And this is the same song (Nights On Broadway) when they did it in 1975 on The Midnight Special. They remained consistent with their sound and flawless. So much fun!
https://youtu.be/F2SDf42guB4
sorry about the edits...
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https://youtu.be/F2SDf42guB4
https://youtu.be/VXU9e-ZU6-c
Sorry folks...but here's the links to the Bee Gees in concert. First one is from 1975 and the second from 1989. They sounded the same every performance, flawless. Love them! Their music is fun and full of life and love. I appreciate them more now than I did when I was younger. Don't know why that is but I'm glad to have rediscovered them.
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We watched the movie Military Wives last night on a dvd from the library. It’s a feel good story of a UK military base where the wives setup a singing social club well their husbands/partners were deployed.
Looks to be streaming on Hulu.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8951692/
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A lovely favourite : Schubert (1797- 1828) - Impromptu Op 90 No 3 D 899 played by Alfred Brendel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMUCMY8Pjc
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Thank you so much for this link, Kristina. I found out last night that my favorite aunt had died of covid, and this music made me feel better.
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Thank you so much for this link, Kristina. I found out last night that my favorite aunt had died of covid, and this music made me feel better.
Dear MooseMom, I feel very sad for your terrible loss during this difficult time and I am thinking of you and send you my deepest condolences from Kristina. :cuddle;
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Alexander Malofeev (15 years old) on the piano playing: Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2
Totally breathtaking !
(Hopefully without commercials!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CW6cxApOBg
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Kristina, I was conditioned by Van Cliburn's impeccable performance of the Rach 2, one of the saddest of all concertos, but that this kid, at age 15, would have the emotional maturity to pull it off with apparent ease is, as you say, remarkable.
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Hello enginist
and many thanks for your kind thoughts. I do remember Van Cliburn as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeA8pMGQJ7g
and, of course John Ogdon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5whWlO35lc
Like yourself I was very surprised when I first heard Alexander Molofeev playing ... but there again, he plays so many years ahead of his actual age and he also seems to understand fully the great mystifying Russian Soul of Sergei Rachmaninoff ... and I do hope to be able and come to one of his recitals whenever he is performing in London ... :grouphug;
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Here's one for you, Kristina, a little boogie-woogie from a Brit and an American. I love blues piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOv99uEL4F4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4BrZjY_Sg&ab_channel=vlaad27
My favorite song ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4BrZjY_Sg&ab_channel=vlaad27
My favorite song ever.
Hello enginist and thanks for this cheerful piano-boogie-woogie and many thanks burford for sharing this song with us. I listened to it many years ago and remember wondering what was meant with "... Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain" ? (... ... still don't know the answer ...looked it up in the dictionary without success ...)
Many thanks again for sharing ... and this song reminds me about the time when I was walking through the hospital-grounds, passing by the nurse's quarters, where a window was open and this song and "San Francisco" were played on the radio and these songs impressed me very much because they represented to me the free spirit of America and I was sure that one day I would come to visit. Mind you, it has not happened yet, but there is hope that one day ... and many thanks again for sharing this beautiful song ... :grouphug;
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Some special singers with one of their favourite songs:
Eartha Kitt - Just an old fashioned girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRSqekHh1g
Victoria Wood - Let’s do it – The Ballad of Barry & Freda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFI5Jl_IqsE
Shirley Bassey – I who have nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOCDc3xLCs
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J.S.Bach (1685-1750) - The Well Tempered Clavier: Book I: Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C Major - Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997). The wonderful way he plays the piano is just inspiration at its very best !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZdbzreNcs
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Well hello crew! :)
Not logged in for a while. Music you want Music we Have.
During lockdown I went to a couple of gigs! :) Streamed. The first the wonderful Nick Cave did a live stream from my hometown of London from Alexandra Palace. A place I used to see every day while dialysing! When I lived in London that is!
Idiot Prayer https://youtu.be/SqySRG_y_l4
Staying in Australia another of my favourite bands The Cat Empire also did a gig. But here's a couple of their best songs.
Brighter than Gold: https://youtu.be/QM_rIaUm7ac
No Longer there:
https://youtu.be/gaROrDZE19k
Also discovered some new music! Gregorian! https://youtu.be/ZK6rpbxth9w
They do a lot of covers!
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Also can't ignore the unusual music of a fellow heamo patient who I started the journey with around 40 years ago.
Ed Dowie.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFSL_xNSELtJIcwJITL6NA
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My husband has always liked old school metal bands (I have, too, but he's more knowledgeable), and he is always on the lookout for new music in this genre. He has discovered many new metal bands all over the world. You haven't lived until you heard some Mongolian metal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
My personal favorite at the moment is Wagakki from Japan. Apparently they are incredibly popular in that country and had just finished a US tour before covid struck. Anyway, what's interesting about them is that they incorporate traditional Japanese instruments in their stage performances, and the lead singer also writes all of their music. She's very talented and is a lovely pianist. They have performed many times accompanied by a full symphony orchestra, but this link is to a video of their opening to a 2015 concert. I was entertained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTbDDMYjw
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JW77, OMG!!!! "Nothing Else Matters" in Gregorian Chant!!! I LOVED this! Thank you!
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During my studies I often met other artists, also one of the best pianists who often played wonderful Bach-pieces for all of us but unfortunately, playing in public Concert-Halls and "laying his feelings publicly bare" was not quite his "thing" and so he rather chose to work professionally as a Tone-Master... Unfortunately though ... he is no longer with us ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7_Ehrwx7s
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During my studies I often met other artists, also one of the best pianists who often played wonderful Bach-pieces for all of us but unfortunately, playing in public Concert-Halls and "laying his feelings publicly bare" was not quite his "thing" and so he rather chose to work professionally as a Tone-Master... Unfortunately though ... he is no longer with us ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7_Ehrwx7s
How wonderful it must be to be so talented!
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During my studies I often met other artists, also one of the best pianists who often played wonderful Bach-pieces for all of us but unfortunately, playing in public Concert-Halls and "laying his feelings publicly bare" was not quite his "thing" and so he rather chose to work professionally as a Tone-Master... Unfortunately though ... he is no longer with us ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7_Ehrwx7s
How wonderful it must be to be so talented!
Hello MooseMom,
Yes, he was very talented and I always thought it such a pity that he preferred to pursue his career as a tone-master instead of delighting audiences with wonderful piano-recitals. It is also very sad to think, that the public never had a chance to listen to his great insight of how to play the piano in such a sensitive way, that it enabled the listener to get an insight to the composers sensitivities and thoughts. This was possible because he grew up with music and came from a family of great musicians and writers...
... At the same time it is also a great pity to witness, that greatly talented musicians like him are unfortunately "dying out" these days. I mention that, because we have here in London only two classical music-radio-stations left and they are: "Radio 3" which often comes over to the listener as being extremely "snooty" about classical music and that is so sad
because there is nothing to be "snooty" about the enjoyment of listening to classical music. The other "classical" music-radio-station here is "Classic FM", where you have to put-up-with an awful lot of commercials, sometimes even in the midst of a symphony (just as insensitive as it sometimes gets at You-tube) and "Classic FM" also often tries to "introduce new talent", where most of these "new" musicians "scratch along on their fiddles" and play classical composers in such a "nerve scratching", insensitive way, that the original composition is practically unrecognisable and almost hurts the listener... :grouphug;
Mind you, I am still hoping for better classical-music-times and at least there are still many LP's from the 1940's - 1970/80's left to listen to great musicians like all the great pianists and great violinists like Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918 – 6 August 2012) and many wonderful conductors like Neville Marriner (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016)...
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My husband has always liked old school metal bands (I have, too, but he's more knowledgeable), and he is always on the lookout for new music in this genre. He has discovered many new metal bands all over the world. You haven't lived until you heard some Mongolian metal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
My personal favorite at the moment is Wagakki from Japan. Apparently they are incredibly popular in that country and had just finished a US tour before covid struck. Anyway, what's interesting about them is that they incorporate traditional Japanese instruments in their stage performances, and the lead singer also writes all of their music. She's very talented and is a lovely pianist. They have performed many times accompanied by a full symphony orchestra, but this link is to a video of their opening to a 2015 concert. I was entertained!
I think if we talk Asian metal, we have to include the very important Tang Dynasty - very first Chinese metal band formed in '89!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxublidqUw0
All these years later, still no idea what they're saying, but I can at least acknowledge why people consider them important. :lol;
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Not a clue what's going on there, but I do like it. Chinese metal! Who would have thought?
While watching that video, I was sorta scrolling down a list of like minded videos, and I came across this rather incredible video from The Hu, the Mongolian band I referenced earlier. It features Lizzy Hale of Halestorm, who really kicks hindquarters. I was just amazed. I mean, how does Lizzy Hale connect with a Mongolian metal band?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN1U9NvuIc
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The oldest musical instrument Sheng played in Covent Garden London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ4tfBiMrE
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The oldest musical instrument Sheng played in Covent Garden London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ4tfBiMrE
THAT is AMAZING!
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Thank you MooseMom, I love Covent Garden and I just have found some of its fascinating history explained:
"Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre (where artists can still find some of their art-material...) north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the historical buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the London Transport Museum and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane."
I love to visit Covent Garden and it is one the few places where you can stay for a long time and simply feel "at home" and forget all about time ...
I found more Chinese musicians performing in Covent Garden on their fascinating instruments :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8CIeCiP9J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6eCjAOMoQ
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Not a clue what's going on there, but I do like it. Chinese metal! Who would have thought?
While watching that video, I was sorta scrolling down a list of like minded videos, and I came across this rather incredible video from The Hu, the Mongolian band I referenced earlier. It features Lizzy Hale of Halestorm, who really kicks hindquarters. I was just amazed. I mean, how does Lizzy Hale connect with a Mongolian metal band?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN1U9NvuIc
I'm quite familiar with The Hu and yes, it is quite a feat in that mesh of styles. But it works! That is one jaw dropper! What talent!
I used to be sooooooo into metal and I think that's how most people remember me, tbh. :rofl; I know when I randomly ran into my old philo prof that's how he remembered me! But the issue is that, well, metal guys aren't exactly the sorts I liked. :P My husband doesn't like that one aspect of me so I slowly moved out of the whole thing. (For the most part, many places consider that sort of music still to be antisocial, etc, and definitely not feminine.) Now I find myself listening to atmospheric black metal during work just to survive!
That said, I get a huge humorous kick out of '80s power ballads. This is my go-to karaoke song, though I cannot sing AT ALL. I just wail like a balloon whizzing out of air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjQg0oAqYUs
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How Soon Is Now? -The Smiths, listening to it while driving
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The Piano ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpHj1lC5Yk
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Holly Hunter is a great pianist and actress.
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Each time I hear this song and no matter who sings it, I feel energized. It somehow fills me with a long burning fire with such power that I feel ready for anything. :guitar:
Disturbed -The Sound of Silence
https://youtu.be/H3By4DZyTNM
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City : Am Fenster (song by an East-German group about sitting at the window (Fenster) looking over the wall into the West...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFtMtalfa_Q
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Dynamite by BTS - I was in my daughter's room
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Jose Carreras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7zGsojS_R8
Brassed Off - Concierto d'Aranjuez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8hIc7DpuE
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Memories ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVFTr_Bh5U
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Memories of my first mountain-climb ... many years ago ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPS8SbhkFg
and the same region during the summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiIXhNCu4Uw
... and latest discoveries ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa64xQQhhxE
... and possible opinions about the three borders ... :welcomesign;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwHj4lj3F-k
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Each time I hear this song and no matter who sings it, I feel energized. It somehow fills me with a long burning fire with such power that I feel ready for anything. :guitar:
Disturbed -The Sound of Silence
https://youtu.be/H3By4DZyTNM
This is one damn good old song that would never fade. There is a driving force in this song. :guitar:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwHj4lj3F-k
Interesting and informative video. Never thought we could be in three countries at once.
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I always listen to this in the morning when preparing breakfast, just a little motivation to start my day with positivity.
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEeaS6fuUoA
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Lovely song. Really a great way to start the day.
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Feeling very misanthropic lately. It'll be 8 years that this has been a standby song for such moods. ETA: I should forewarn it is Watain so not everyone's cuppa!
https://youtu.be/HckCCGL6AUk
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Feeling very misanthropic lately. It'll be 8 years that this has been a standby song for such moods. ETA: I should forewarn it is Watain so not everyone's cuppa!
https://youtu.be/HckCCGL6AUk
;)
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Feeling very misanthropic lately. It'll be 8 years that this has been a standby song for such moods. ETA: I should forewarn it is Watain so not everyone's cuppa!
https://youtu.be/HckCCGL6AUk
Oh, wow, You Tea. I really, really like this! This is so cool. Thanks for posting the link to this.
Ok, well, I was a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest for decades. Yes, I admit it. It's so kitschy that it's iconic. Perhaps some of you saw the Will Farrell movie "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga". If not, and if you are in the sort of Watain mood, maybe this movie will help. It's silly but so true to the art form. Will Farrell's wife is Swedish, so perhaps he learned about the song contest from her.
Anyway, imagine my surprise and delight when I found out that the Eurovision Song Contest was going to be broadcast here in the US!!!!!!! Oh, I was giddy with joy and watched it all. For proprietary reasons, perhaps, I can't find an official Eurovision youtube vid to share of the winner, but the band that won, Maneskin, is an Italian band and won a song contest at Sanremo. Italian rock lives!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA12F2ZBtJ0
I knew absolutely nothing about this band, so after a bit of youtube surfing, I found this song of theirs that just tugs at my lil' ol' heart strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UZgJUB9CY
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Glad that it is liked! It is a very good "nice song" versus the other Watain material that I don't typically share with people. A lot of the time it hurts people's ears and then it turns into "what is theistic Satanism?" which often turns into downhill conversations.
I watch Eurovision too! Not that I am a "fan", but it just is one of those events that mark a season of the year. To be honest, I was kind of shocked that Maneskin won. Not because of their song, or their performance, but just because, it was rock. And then, on social media, SO MANY people complained and believed the lead singer had used cocaine (whilst at the competition) and caught it on camera. Moral panic! It was a situation for a bit.
It's funny because they were showing up in social media ahead of the competition because the fashion house Etro designed outfits for them. I never paid them any attnetion, so then on competition day, I was like, Oh..those are those people.
How nice that a little musical investigation led you to something that tugs at your little heart strings!
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I was shocked, too, that rock made such an impact at the contest. What was so revealing was just how out of step the "jury" was from the public, but that's part of the fun of Eurovision. We all know which countries will give their 12 votes to their neighbor. Of course, when the UK got no votes from anyone, the first thing everyone thought was, "That's for BREXIT!"
My husband loves those reaction videos on youtube and will occasionally suggest a rock song he likes to various "reactors". I can see the appeal of watching someone react to a kind of music they never would have heard had not someone said, "Listen to THIS!" I think I posted somewhere on this thread a reaction video of two Black teenagers listening to Dolly Parton's "Jolene" for the first time. So, I am amused to watch various American "reactors" who had never heard of Eurovision post reaction videos to Maneskin's performance at the contest. I like open minded music lovers.
Yeah, the whole drug thing was unfortunate and unfair. The band members were furious and demanded a drug test to prove this was untrue, and that was that. I hope someone apologized to them.
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What was so revealing was just how out of step the "jury" was from the public, but that's part of the fun of Eurovision. We all know which countries will give their 12 votes to their neighbor. Of course, when the UK got no votes from anyone, the first thing everyone thought was, "That's for BREXIT!"
Spot on about the jury! It seemed as though France was about to sweep the competition! Understood, though, as it seems French bard-y sort of songs always tend to touch certain sorts of people and leave others disinterested. I find it cool when many votes, or a majority of them, go to countries that sing in their own languages. Italian rock was nice a change than the stale English only mediocre pop songs!
Not sure if you know this, but the Russian entry Manizha caused quite a stink at home. The song was too feminist or whatnot and people launched so many complaints. After that, a blogger wrote something like Manizha was actually supported by the government, and it turned into a lawsuit?! Not sure what's happening now, but I was like, wow...Eurovision drama and not in the fun way, like a costume malfunction!
I know it infuriates most of the continent, but I get a kick out of the "we know who's going to give their douze points to who!" moments. Often in the Balkans! :lol; I did have a bit of an aww moment for the UK with their 0 points!
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Stephen Bishop Live :guitar: :'(
On And On
https://youtu.be/3oByMiF4hPg
Lyrics
Down in Jamaica, they got lots of pretty women
Steal your money, then they break your heart
Lonesome Sue, she's in love with old Sam
Take him from the fire into the frying pan
On and on, she just keeps on trying
And she smiles when she feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on
Poor old Jimmy sits alone in the moonlight
Saw his woman kiss another man
So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky
Puts on Sinatra and starts to cry
On and on, he just keeps on trying
And he smiles when he feels like crying
On and on, on and on, on and on
When the first time is the last time
It can make you feel so bad
But if you know it, show it
Hold on tight, don't let her say goodnight
Got the sun on my shoulders and my toes in the sand
Woman's left me for some other man
Aw, but I don't care, I'll just dream and stay tanned
Toss up my heart and see where it lands
On and on, I just keep on trying
And I smile when I feel like dying
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on
On and on, on and on, on and on
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Admittedly, I am not into opera but found myself comforted by Andrea Bocelli's performance. At the height of Covid unleashing a terrible brutality upon us, Mr. Bocelli used his celebrity and wanting to offer hope, he gave the world what he could; his beautiful and calming voice. It has comforted me ever since. Perhaps now I am into opera.
https://youtu.be/huTUOek4LgU
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Greatest Hits of 1720 :
J. S. Bach : Harpsichord Concerto in f minor. BWV 1056 (II y III) (Larghetto & Allegro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5QgLnweRxQ
Tomaso Albinoni :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eLU5W1vc8Y
Händel : Sarabande in D minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-qHtYfktiQ
Bach : Air on the G String (Suite No. 3, BWV 1068) J. S. Bach, original instruments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzlw6fUux4o
Bach Double Violin Concerto in D Minor 2nd mvt. Largo; Voices of Music BWV 1043
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzTwO0zWrqU
Jean-Joseph Mouret: Rondeau from "Sinfonie de Fanfares"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZQG-DZy7uY
(Hopefully headache-producing-causing YouTube-commercials could be successfully avoided this time ... fingers crossed!)
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One of the most honest Chopin-compositions : Etude op 25 no 12 :
Chopin was extremely unwell at the time of composing this Etude and certainly must have felt very deeply, that his time was about to "run out" and whilst composing this particular Etude, it comes over very strongly, that Chopin expressed similar thoughts like Dylan Thomas :
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
Georges Cziffra : Chopin etude op.25 no. 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKSsdtzByKs
P.S. Studying Georges Cziffra's life makes it very understandable, why he could convey Chopin's situation so perfectly in such a "stormy" way ...
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Watermark by Enya, I was listening to it yesterday while lying in bed
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... Just by chance I've heard this wonderfully inspiring song tonight ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdeg-WKt1U
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... Just by chance I've heard this wonderfully inspiring song tonight ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdeg-WKt1U
Ah kristina! I love the Highwaymen! (And enjoy each singer in their own right - big fan of Waylon). Hard to believe I first heard them on a bootleg cassette that someone had and pretty much tossed out and I got hooked on this song. Probably explains a lot about my life decisions! :rofl;
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Many thanks UkrainianTracksuit for your interesting experience about how you came about this most unusual song.
I “fell” for it when I heard it and thought about my recent sepsis-survival and realized that “The Highwayman” is indeed a most unusual and most encouraging survival-song and is very encouraging in its own way, because, after all, it points out that we are still here and, most importantly, alive… :waving;
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Vivaldi - The wonderful Concerto in E minor for Bassoon RV 484
Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina (The Frédéric Chopin University of Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidC7TZRxkA
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G.F.Haendel - Watermusic (Minuett I-II-etc) played and wonderfully danced by the English Bach Festival Musicians & Dancers at the Banqueting House in Whitehall London. Unfortunately the picture quality is not good, but it does convey the fun of Baroque dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yurw5Cf4HY
G.F.Haendel - Watermusic (PART II: Air-Menuet-Bourreé-etc.)
Again with the English Bach Festival Musicians and Dancers at The Banqueting House – Whitehall London and fortunately this time with a much better picture quality…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epmG43H9D98
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When I (hopefully soon ) feel a little better I am going to read "Memoirs of Madame du Barry" by Pidansat de Mairobert.
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the very last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution ... and today I came across this most interesting and eerie "A night at the Palace of Versailles" and the sound certainly emphasizes the unusual eeriness of Versailles as it is now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhRBIgvbx0U
and ... there is also "a day at Versailles" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETmC3jkDAwY
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Stjepan Hauser performing "Caruso" by Lucio Dalla, in his hometown, in the iconic Arena Pula, Croatia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrk9s1UbC8
Stjepan Hauser performing Tennessee (from Pearl Harbor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ4bQTVaFB8
... and "Vocalise" by Rachmaninoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK6v4_Xxbk0
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Jacqueline Mary du Pré (1945 - 1987) was a British cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularity. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time.
Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at the age of 28; she died 14 years later at the age of 42.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgdbqt2ON0
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Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz and protest-songs... :secret;
Donovan : “Gold Watch Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEDk7eprIGQ
“Universal Soldier” Donovan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50lVLtSQik
Alan Stivell (born 6 January 1944) is a French, Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, protest-song recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp
Alan Stivell - Spered Hollvedel + Delivrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkl4ssj8uyA
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Sorry to share this :P but the odd Serbian language songs that I picked up while being in Balkan grocers have come back to my mind with the whole Novak Đoković soap opera. Maybe it will be an earworm for you too. :lol;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinmWhuDQJk
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Charles Aznavour - Emmenez-moi (Audio Officiel + Paroles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrKMaeQUx0
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CHOPIN - NOCTURNE NO.20 IN C-SHARP MINOR OP.POSTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyAOYMUVDs
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Alexandra (1942-1969)
My friend the tree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWOz6NcAVOk
I've wanted to see you again for a long time
my old childhood friend,
I had a lot to say to you
and knew you would understand me.
I came to you when I was a little girl
with all the child worries.
I felt safe with you
and all my sorrow flew away.
I cried in your arms
you stroked me with your green leaves
over my hair, my old friend.
My friend the tree is dead
he fell in the early morning.
You fell this morning, I was late
you will never sway in the wind again
you must lie fallen on the way,
and some who pass by
he doesn't care about the rest of life
and tears at your green branches,
who bow to the ground, dying.
who will give me the rest now
that I found in your shadow?
I lost my best friend
that linked me to my childhood.
My friend the tree is dead...
Soon a house of glass and stone will grow
where he was knocked down
soon gray walls will rise
where he lies in the sunshine.
Maybe there will be a miracle
I will secretly wait
maybe a garden blooms in front of the house,
and he comes to life again.
But then he is still weak and small,
and though many years pass
he will never be the same.
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Michel Sardou (born 1947 in Paris, France)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DD7f3yUZEQ
Lyrics of the song My last dream will be for you by Michel Sardou
They took my pens,
My office, my papers,
Found behind my back
My unpaid bills.
They took my car,
My apartment, my TV.
They told me "You're a pan,
You've got it for years!"
They came one morning
In Colombo raincoats,
Bailiffs, notaries,
URSSAF and taxes.
I saw them satisfied
Of duty accomplished,
The media, the Palace
And then everything that follows
But my love,
They won't have it.
my last dream
Will be for you.
They took my songs,
My piano, my checkbook.
They put in the truck
My beautiful signed paintings.
They took my suits,
My addresses, my fingerprints,
My tapes, my thrillers.
The others filed a complaint.
They put me in sight
My company accounts.
They told me "Watch out
And then to your health!"
I saw them satisfied
Of duty accomplished,
The media, the Palace
And then everything that follows
But my love,
They won't have it.
my last dream
Will be for you.
They took my boat,
They read my mail.
They took me...
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Two renaissance dances (composed in 1613) by Erasmus Widmann (1572–1634), mandolin guitar mandocello.
Erasmus Widmann was a South German composer. He was born at Schwäbisch Hall and studied in Tübingen. His first musical positions were in Eisenerz (1596), Graz (1596), Schwäbisch Hall, and from 1602 Kapellmeister to Count Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim until the count's death in 1610. Then he became cantor and organist at Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkVEhUxvY8
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Erasmus Widmann (15 September 1572, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany - 31 October 1634, Rothenburg, Germany.
Dances & Galliards from Musikalischer Tugendspiegel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9M_4xnyEyw&list=RDY9M_4xnyEyw&start_radio=1&rv=Y9M_4xnyEyw&t=11
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Michel Charles Sardou (26th January 1947 in Paris, France) is a French singer and occasional actor. He is known not only for his love songs ("La maladie d'amour", "Je vais t'aimer"), but also for songs dealing with various social and political issues, such as the rights of women in Islamic countries ("Musulmanes"), clerical celibacy ("Le curé"), colonialism ("Le temps des colonies", "Ils ont le pétrole mais c'est tout") or the death penalty ("Je suis pour"). Another sometimes controversial theme found in some of his songs ("Les Ricains" and "Monsieur le Président de France" for example) is his respect and support for the culture and foreign policies of the United States of America.
English Translation of Vladimir Ilitch (first release in French by Michel Sardou in 1983)
P.S. I have tried very hard to create a chance for this song to be enjoyed without any commercials but unfortunately this seems to be impossible and I am very sorry about that... if by any chance anyone here is able to cut-out these terrible commercials I would be very grateful indeed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5XsdOspltI
A Siberian wind blows over Bohemia.
Women are angry at mill doors.
From the banks of the Volga to the Niemen delta,
Time has passed, it has passed for nothing.
Since no god in heaven is interested in us,
Lenin, stand up,
They've gone mad!
You, Vladimir Ilyich,
You're right, you laugh.
You who have traveled in an armored wagon.
When you see the Holy Father your cousin from Poland
Bless all his followers in his armored car.
You, Vladimir Ilyich,
At least you shiver
Seeing the drawers of the bureaucracy
Filled with all the names of people imprisoned
Or the ones sent to die at the country's frontiers ...
You, Vladimir Ilyich,
In the sun beyond the grave,
How many years is it necessary to earn four feet under?
When we know the price we put in a bomb;
Lenin, stand up,
they've gone mad!
Where are the paths of hope?
In which night in the depths of which fog?
Nothing has changed, the damned of the earth
They didn't find the way out of hell.
You, who had dreamed
The equality of men,
You must fall from above into your eternity,
In front of all these old men in superb uniforms,
And these homes for the people in their private quarters.
You, Vladimir Ilyich,
If you are the prophet,
Come and talk to us again in the heart of Moscow,
And spread the news across the planet:
'Friends of the human race, they have become mad'!
https://lyricstranslate.com
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Here Richard Tauber (1891 Linz Austria-1948 London GB) sings the song composed by Schubert-Tauber-Clutsam for the film “Blossom Time” (1934). I heard this powerful song many years ago, could not find it again and fortunately today I could listen to it again when watching the Biographical movie about Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) called “Blossom Time”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBnRKAKYUpo
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, (baptized September 25, 1683, Dijon, France—died September 12, 1764, Paris), French composer of the late Baroque period, best known today for his harpsichord music, operas, and works in other theatrical genres but in his lifetime also famous as a music theorist.
One of the very best interpretations of Les Indes galantes - Les Sauvages by Jean-Philippe Rameau, interpreted by Dmitry Ivanchey :
Rameau - Les Indes galantes - Les Sauvages - Dmitry Ivanchey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmlF3QZkTM
P.S. I am very sorry about these irritating commercials before we can enjoy this beautiful interpretation of Rameau's musical thoughts.,,
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Franz André Heller (born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter and actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGjF8QgHTY&list=OLAK5uy_kRZ7Pc9NNRoarLOic0DG71sWSBQ9XAaXQ&index=4
One of his best liked songs and hopefully the translation is not too bad to convey his poetry and hopefully these terrible commercials are not too awful to bear but unfortunately these days one has to "qualify" and first "get over" these terrible commercials in order to be permitted to listen to some good music on youtube ... :embarassed: ... that is always the trouble with getting something for free ... there is always a catch, isn't there ... ?
You, you, you
When it rains, the rainbows grow
When it snows, the stars grow
When the sun is down, butterflies grow
And always, always I like you!
You, you, you are
my only word
You you you
mean everything!
The laughing, the screaming
Leaving, staying
The hour, the minute, the moment
The house and the city, the wind and the leaf
The breathing, the dying
And the music
you, you, you are
my only word
You you you
mean everything
you, you, you are
my only word
You you you
mean everything
The grass and the snow, the earth and the sea
Searching, finding and losing
Running, turning, sleeping, seeing
Falling, flying, ABC
When it rains, the rainbows grow
When it snows, the stars grow
When the sun is down, butterflies grow
And always
And always
And I always like you!
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On repeat for days around here... not sure what that says about my mental state.
https://youtu.be/zZcH2OOMV4A
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Ennio Morricone - Lady Caliph - Tribute to German-French actress Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-c63mPIjPE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdollDkFSs
Camille & Julie are the Berthollet sisters, two extraordinarily gifted musical siblings from the idyllic Rhône-Alpes region in France. Camille (17) plays violin and cello and Julie (19) violin and viola. They became celebrities in France when the then 15-year-old Camille won Prodigies, a TV show for classical virtuosos under the age of 16. After captivating more than four million viewers on the France 2 network with her searing rendition of ‘Summer’ from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Camille was immediately signed to Warner Classics, her debut album (featuring her older sister as duo partner) going on to achieve Gold status with more than 80,000 copies sold in France alone. On their second album together, with the support of the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the sibling sensations reveal the poise, maturity and musical prowess they have continued to develop since Prodigies, confirming their talent goes far beyond the TV phenomenon that launched their bright careers.
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Kenny Rogers (1938 - 2020) singer, songwriter and actor : The Gambler .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo
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One very favourite English landscape-painter is Sebastian Pether (1793 - 1844), also called Moonlight-Pether, mainly because his work consists of wonderful moody moonlight-paintings and fascinating sunsets. Many of Sebastian Pether’s paintings were collected by Henry Huttleston Rogers 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896 - 1966) of Anglesey Abbey in the County of Cambridge and some of Sebastian Pether’s paintings shown here harmonize very well with the Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB80KYEHD0E
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Maurice André, French trumpeter (1933 – 2012) plays “A Farewell, The Queens Dolour”
composed by Henry Purcell, English composer (1659 – 1695)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9rxXGYeer8
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Reinhard Mey (born 21 December 1942 in Berlin) is a German "Liedermacher" (literally "songmaker", a German-style singer-songwriter). In France he is known as Frédérik Mey.
- Gute Nacht Freunde - Lyrics + English Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1HL1gEfv0M&list=RDGMEMQ1dJ7wXfLlqCjwV0xfSNbA&index=2
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, (1683, Dijon — 1764, Paris), French composer of the late Baroque period, best known today for his harpsichord music, operas, and works in other theatrical genres but in his lifetime also famous as a music theorist.
Another fun-version of Les Arts Florissants jouent Rameau, "Forêts paisibles" extrait des Indes Galantes,
Soprano Sandrine Piau, Bass Lisandro Abadie and the Choir of des Arts Florissants, Conductor William Christie of the Philharmonie de Paris...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNmyYgkG2z8
Jean Rondeau (born 23 April 1991) is a French harpsichordist and pianist. He was taught by Blandine Verlet from an early age and he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris & the Guildhall School of Music in London. He won the Young Soloist award in the 2014 Prix des Radios Francophones Publiques and has released several solo albums. Here Jean Rondeau plays on the very special Harpsichord (after the Ruckers school) a most fascinating version of Jean-Philippe Rameau's composition - Les Sauvages - at the Salle Bourgie du Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpQD4de-EI
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I test link (http://www.testlink.com/) envy anyone who gets to see these guys in concert. Jeff Lynne is a genius, the group is so very talented. Wow, wow, wow!! Love them more now than I did as a kid. Funny how we take some of the most important pleasures (music) in life for granted. This is definitely fun feel good music that should be enjoyed and enjoyed often.
ELO "Twilight"
https://youtu.be/XGWR0U-Q73E
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... These days there is so much talk (again) about war and it is so very sad... and ... there are impressions, photos and many films about what the reality of war really seems to stand for like the terrible losses and horrific unforgettable impressions and how much it always traumatizes and hurts innocent people. And ... there is one particular film which seems to "sum it all up" and that is the following unforgettable clip of "Riders on the Storm" and, as the provider of this film writes: " Dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died during the Vietnam War. Brave young man who served their country, which many of them never received a "welcome home" or a "thank you" from its country".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1KHHre-8g
P.S. After posting it all here, quite suddenly there came up a "Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users" ... and so it seems impossible to watch ... which in itself is very sad, but I tried and found another "version", perhaps not as "good" (in tonality & filming) as the first to convey the message, but nevertheless ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMDv7xhpoU
And here are two European "versions" about the same sad theme with English subtitles :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WukbQ9ldsdc
and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbkUEPWJkqc
... and hopefully ... please ... perhaps ... one day ... people could be trained in the art of diplomacy and conflicts could be avoided from then on ... how about it ?
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The great Russian pianist Emil Gilels (19 October 1916, Odessa, Ukraine - 14 October 1985, Moscow, Russia) plays Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1st April 1873 Starorussky Uyezd - 28th March 1943 Beverly Hills California United States) Vocalise op.34 no.14
From the recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IiC1kAdzM
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kristina, we are having our first proper snowfall of the winter today, and this piece is perfect for the day!
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kristina, we are having our first proper snowfall of the winter today, and this piece is perfect for the day!
Many thanks MooseMom, I am so glad that this piece of music was perfect for your day.
Take care and best wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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Lotte Lenya (THE Lotte Lenya 1898 - 1981) sings a song composed by her husband Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950) with texts by Bertold Brecht (1898 - 1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJKkqC8JVXk
... and here Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971) sings his very special version of the song by Kurt Weill "Mack the Knife" ... and very kindly mentions Lotte Lenya 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-lHrDPjGfQ
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Beethoven - Overture to "Egmont", Op. 84 (Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChcrZX2rZ1M
From the Church of St. Nicolai, Leipzig, Germany (Starts at 1:30)
20 Years Peaceful Revolution - Leipzig commemorates the 9th of October 1989
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Conductor: Kurt Masur
On 9 October 1989, 70,000 people staged a non-violent demonstration calling for more freedom and democracy in the GDR. Thanks to the claim “Peaceful Revolution”, initiated by Kurt Masur as one of six prominent citizens of Leipzig, everything proceeded peacefully. That evening, the Gewandhausorchester played under his baton Brahms’ Second Symphony at the St. Nicolas Church. The following regular "Monday Demonstrations", which came to be described as the “Peaceful Revolution”, became a major milestone on the way to open the Berlin Wall one month later on November the 9th in 1989 and paving the foundations for the reunification of the two German states.
Exactly 20 years later, the Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur commemorate the beginning of the German reunification by presenting the same symphony at the same location. :)
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Alexandra (Doris Nefedov née Treitz, May 19, 1942 – July 31, 1969), better known by her stage name Alexandra, was a German singer. "Grau zieht der Nebel - Tombe la Neige"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAZ9WNToR3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guE3ig4zTbc&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=xHskeo9ceL4
Translation:
On a tree in the park of the big city
hung a leaf among thousands of leaves.
When the night wind sang in the trees the leaf swayed in dreams about the wide glorious world.
"If I could just once, like the wind fly with the clouds over the sea,
oh I would give my life if I could fly, if I only could fly ..."
Autumn came soon and gave the leaves their most beautiful colours and again the leaf complained of its sorrow:
"I have to stay and fade away if I only could go with the swans where the summer never ends..."
Then the autumn wind cried: "You shall fly! Fly!"
And he tore the leaf from the tree, drove it into the great city, let it fly, let it fly.
Happiness was brief ... The leaf fell wearily on the street, into its rain-soaked grave
Already at the end of its life the little leaf cried in vain up to the silent houses:
"If only I could once more fly in the wind! I'd fly back to my tree and the dream would be forgotten about flying ... forgotten ... ...from flying ... from flying ...
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Emil Gilels (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) plays the Prelude in B minor (Johann Sebastian Bach / Alexander Siloti)
From the legendary recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY
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Emil Gilels (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) plays the Prelude in B minor (Johann Sebastian Bach / Alexander Siloti)
From the legendary recital at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY
It is gently snowing outside today; it's beautiful and calm, and this music is perfect for the day. Thank you for posting this. It's lovely.