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Post by slb2 on Sept 1, 2007 11:59:49 GMT -5
And now for something completely different — I came across this — www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9GZKqXhkg — today and thought it was pretty good, and the bass's falsetto line was sensational. Enjoy, if you like this kind of thing. I can't say that those blokes didn't sing it, but I do have reservations. It seems that the rhythm singers are not credibly participatory. The lead singer has a guilty smile. And they did an amazing job for one take in the staircase of an old building, leading me to doubt its authenticity. Besides, I love that song. Takes me back to 5th grade. We'd sing it amongst ourselves and feel so cool for getting the harmonies.
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Post by joew on Sept 1, 2007 12:04:11 GMT -5
All good points, slb2. I'm just not sure.
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Post by slb2 on Sept 8, 2007 0:39:07 GMT -5
What a day of music for me! I'd been planning on a visit to the Electric Fetus to buy some CDs. I wanted Lucky Dube's latest, but it's $45 bucks, so didn't indulge in that. But I did buy his "Taxman" CD. I also picked up Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, a Texan with Louisiana style who passed away shortly following Hurricane Katrina. I LOVE his CD. And I went for Three's a Charm with the Twin Cities Gospel Choir lead by Robert "Robbie" Robertson. Have't listened to it, yet. Good and fine. I take my teen-year-old to Half Price Books so that she can buy a birthday present for her friend this afternoon. I find, to my delight, Cajun Cooking--a CD with lots of Cajun music, inc. (of course!!) Michael as well as his brother and a third song by the whole band. Plus, I pick up a Daddies Sing Lullabies CD that inc. (yes, I know) Chanson pour Ezra by Michael Doucet. His wife, Sharon Arms Doucet wrote the lyrics and Michael composed the music. And I found, also in the clearance section, music from the old TV sitcom, The Wonder Years. Not really my first choice, but Ace likes that sort of stuff and I can listen to it while I give him a back massage. If that's not enough, when I looked through the mail this evening, I found a press kit sent to me from the Walker Art Institute of Dhafer Youssef, a Tunisian jazz musician. I'm listening to it right now. My story on Dhafer is due the end of the month. Cripes! Seven new CDs in one day! One free, three for a buck or two, and the others at 15 bucks or less. ;D
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Post by Trusty on Sept 9, 2007 20:31:19 GMT -5
I'd been planning on a visit to the Electric Fetus to buy some CDs. The "Electric Fetus"? For those of us not in Minnesota, this is one of those "now I've heard everything" moments. So, I looked up its website - a place where Bookie needs to go...
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Post by slb2 on Sept 12, 2007 11:18:42 GMT -5
Don't anyone ever make me list my top ten. I couldn't do it. I do know that Michael plays the first two on my list, but after that, I only know that a song's "up there." So, surely you want to know those first two songs, huh? First one's Tasso/McGee's Reel and the band plays it right before intermission. Second one's Me 'n Dennis McGee. I don't recall BeauSoleil playing on APHC. It's a bit newer and the boys haven't been on for a couple years. But maybe. Nope. Can't find it, don't think they've played it yet for APHC. Song #3: Unchained Melody, various artists, haven't found my favorite, yet.
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Post by Brit on Sept 12, 2007 13:28:26 GMT -5
I picked up a double DVD of The Marriage of Figaro today.
"Susanna" is performd by the delightfully sexy Anna Netrebko.
Man! Is she something else!
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Post by michael on Sept 12, 2007 17:20:35 GMT -5
Yesterday, I picked up a Japanese reissue CD of Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!
I'm listening to it right now and the drum solo is just as good today as it was when I was teenager!
This is fun!
Mike
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Post by Gracie on Sept 12, 2007 18:41:02 GMT -5
Yesterday, I picked up a Japanese reissue CD of Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida! I'm listening to it right now and the drum solo is just as good today as it was when I was teenager! This is fun! Mike Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. Funny, too, 'cause just this morning I had the radio on while I was getting ready for work, and Clapton's "Layla" (the original one, the good one, not the defanged one) came on and I TURNED IT UP as I always do.... And when it was over, I remarked to Griz that this one, and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" were two of the very best rock anthems EVER and both were all the better for the artists being stoned out of their minds.... Clapton would never have turned his passion into such a howl of pain and despair if he hadn't been so far gone he hardly knew what he was doing--he has said before that he'd held in his feelings for Patti so long that he didn't think he'd ever have been able to express them...until "Layla." And then EVERYone knew. And I LOVE the drum solo, too, Mike. And I love knowing that the chemical enhancement also freed them to play those drums the way they did, as long as they did....and chuckle, still, at the idea that it was supposed to be titled "In the Garden of Eden"...but they were too doped to be able to say it properly. (But the funny thing is...I have never taken an illegal substance in my life!!) You gotta love classic rock. Well, I gotta, anyway.
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Post by michael on Sept 12, 2007 19:07:15 GMT -5
...it was supposed to be titled "In the Garden of Eden"...but they were too doped to be able to say it properly.
Gracie, I did not know that. Just goes to show ya, you learn something new everyday!
Mike
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Post by Brit on Sept 13, 2007 13:00:40 GMT -5
Ah! Drum solos! Whilst Rock was the "wild" side of the 1960's, Jazz was the "sleazy" side. Guess which one I preferred? This is the Classic "Take Five" in which Joe Morello bends down to turn the snare drum on half-way through the solo, then proceeds to paradiddle. About halfway through this stupendous performance, he lifts his left hand to touch his glasses - without apparantly missing a beat! I saw him in Glasgow doing this to an audience of percussionists. (At the time I was going out with a girl student of percussion since you ask). Also, notice how the only work his left hand did was from the wrist. The right arm swayed over the rest of the kit, but again, all the action was from the wrist. Such a contrast to the rock guys whose arms were always wildly gesticulating! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs
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Post by Brit on Sept 13, 2007 13:10:38 GMT -5
And if you liked that, try this. I am told it was an encore recorded the same night, but with microphones concentrating on the drum kit which obliterates the surrounding applause. Don't quote me on that though. I'm not so sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKq3HD0EFc
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Post by slb2 on Oct 2, 2007 13:49:37 GMT -5
Here's a piece I recently wrote and quoted our own dwarnold!!the piece
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Post by joew on Oct 2, 2007 14:22:40 GMT -5
Very evocative, slb2.
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Post by slb2 on Oct 19, 2007 10:35:21 GMT -5
Oh help. I've fallen and I can't let go. Fallen for...I don't wanna say it...reggae. Maybe specifically for Lucky Dube's reggae, I don't know. But I didn't much care for that music before last night. But I had such a good time and I've got some of his songs stuck in my head, hence, I can't let go--of the memory or the tune. I'd like to write more, but I need to finish the article about Lucky and then write another one about Andy Palacio and the Gunifuna Collective all in seven hours. It's harder than you'd think. Having the kids around makes it....interesting. Hey Thomas, does GK ever have to work on his monologues whilst tending his little one? Although she's not terribly little anymore. Thank goodness for Wii sports. I just learned that Lucky Dube was murdered yesterday (October 18th) in Johannesburg, SA. In front of his son and daughter. A carjacking. I'm horrified and shocked. I can remember his words to the audience at First Avenue just weeks ago: love those who hate you. This has me upset in an impersonal way. What a terrific waste. Lucky was such a light of hope and reconcilliation. I wrote about that in my review of his show.
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Post by joew on Oct 19, 2007 22:57:10 GMT -5
My first Boston Symphony Orchestra concert this season was last Teusday. They gave an organ concerto by Francis Poulenc — pretty good — and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony — well performed. But the real pleasant sur[rise of the evening was music by a 50-something from Boston, Michael Gandolfi. He has written a piece with 11 sections, called "The Garden of Cosmic Speculation." His inspiration was a book with photographs of an actual garden/park with that name which has been created in Scotland by an architect. The composer says that performers can choose any of the sections of the liece and play them in any order they choose. The conductor of the series of concerts last week and this had chosen four of the sections.
One is always a little apprehensive of music for symphony orchestra composed in the past 100 years. But this was actually okay, even fun to listen to at times. So if you are ever thinking about going to a concert which includes something by Michael Gandolfi, don't let the Gandolfi scare you off.
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Post by Brit on Oct 20, 2007 5:48:19 GMT -5
I googled that name and found it to be in the south-west corner of Scotland - in what is known as Burns' Country.
I had never heard of it before.
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Post by joew on Nov 2, 2007 11:29:13 GMT -5
I mentioned that I had gone to a concert last night. There was Mozart's Symphony No. 1, written in London when he was nine years old. That was followed before intermission by "The Lost Art of Letter Writing," a piece in four movements for violin and orchestra by Brett Dean, an Aussie who turned 46 last week. The piece had its world premiere last spring, and the current BSO concerts are the American premiere. Each movement is inspired by a letter: 1.) from Brahms to Clara Schumann in Hamburg, 1854, referring to their secret romance; 2.) from Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, 1882, in which he says that the eternal beauty of nature is a constant in his otherwise troubled life; 3.) a letter from Hugo Wolf to a friend, Vienna, 1886, "a frank outpouring from a life of affliction;" 4.) a public mainfesto from the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, Jerilderie, 1879, pleading for justice for his family and the other poor Irish settlers in northeastern Victoria. Frank Peter Zimmermann, to whom the work is dedicated, was the soloist — as he was at the world premiere. There is a massive percussion section with various sorts of drums, marimbas, cymbals, glockenspiels, but most of the time they and the rest of the orchestra are playing in the background to the solo violin. There aren't any tune that I would have ended up singing, but it is not particularly dissonant either and there are fragments of melody. It takes something over 1/2 hour. The audience seemed fascinated — much less coughing than usual during the quiet parts. All in all, not too tough to take. I think with a lot of contemporary symphonic music, it helps if you think of it as being the soundtrack to a movie you haven't see. After intermission, Zimmermann returned as soloist in the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2, and the concert ended with Schumann's (Clara's husband) Symphony No. 2. If you want to hear any of it, it is being performed again this afternoon and tomorrow evening. You can hear it, beginning at 1:30 Eastern Time today on www.wgbh.org (click "radio" then "listen live"). During the half hour before the concert and during the intermission, they often have interviews with the conductor, and sometimes the soloist. The new piece will be over before 2:30. Tomorrow the concert will be broadcast live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET, on www.wcrb.com (the listen live box is on the right side of the homepage). BTW, most weeks from early October through the first week of May, with some time off around Christmas, there are live concert braodcasts of the Boston Symphony at those times. In the summer (July and August) there are concerts of the BSO from Tanglewood Friday evening, Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon on one or the other of those stations.
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Post by joew on Nov 8, 2007 19:09:03 GMT -5
Here's one that is definitely not lip-synching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImHLH53T1_AThere are several other numbers by the Georgetown Chimes on YouTube, as you'll notice. I chose this one in honour of brit. The group was already of long standing when I was a student at Georgetown. Among the videos I've seen so far on YouTube, the only one which was in their repertoire back then is "We Meet," which was the opener at all their performances.
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Post by slb2 on Nov 9, 2007 0:07:52 GMT -5
joew, yum, yum!! very nice
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Post by slb2 on Nov 9, 2007 0:09:25 GMT -5
fyi, the advertisement on top of the page: tous les matins du monde
I understand the individual words, but not how to translate it.
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Post by Trusty on Nov 11, 2007 20:31:17 GMT -5
fyi, the advertisement on top of the page: tous les matins du monde I understand the individual words, but not how to translate it. THIS may help "All the Mornings of the World" or "Every Morning of the World" (At least I think that's it.)
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Post by slb2 on Nov 12, 2007 10:13:32 GMT -5
I still don't really "get" the translation. What's the meaning behind the words?
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Post by Trusty on Nov 12, 2007 17:29:34 GMT -5
I still don't really "get" the translation. What's the meaning behind the words? Don't really know. It's the name of the movie at the other end of the link. Maybe contact the producer???
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Post by joew on Nov 23, 2007 19:14:44 GMT -5
Well, I went into Boston this afternoon to hear Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride followed by his complete Má Vlast(3 sections before intermission, and the rest afterwards), played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra played well, as far as I can judge, and anybody who likes that kind of thing can hear the Saturday evening live performance right after APHC over www.wcrb.com our commercial classical music station. I suppose it would be ridiculously late for you, Brit, but on Sunday, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (which would normally be 8:00 your time, but I don't know whether you will still be on summer time) www.wgbh.org will stream a recording of most of the previous weeks program: Haydn's Symphony No. 104, "London," and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 (omitting Elliott Carter's brand new Horn Concerto, whose world premiere I attended and which is no great loss). There will also be streamed live broadcasts of the BSO over www.wgbh.org on Fridays Nov. 30, December 7, January 4, and January 11 at 1:30 with a pre-concert show at 1:00 Eastern Time. The concerts will all be repeated and streamed liveon www.wcrb.com the following evening at 8:00 EST (without the half-hour pre-concert features). I won't try to list the programs for the concerts. The third of the concerts is all nineteenth century music, the others are 19th and 20th century, with one 21st century work getting its American premiere next week.
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Post by michael on Nov 25, 2007 21:29:34 GMT -5
This is my entire Christmas music CD collection. I usually start playing them after the first of December and for sentimental reasons I’ll probably start with The Andy Williams Christmas Album.
Herb Alpert & the TJB – Christmas Album Peter Nero and the Philly Pops – Holiday Pops! Diana Krall – Christmas Songs Al Hirt – Have A Merry Little Christmas Steve Tyrell – This Time Next Year Jane Monheit – The Seasons The Beach Boys – Ultimate Christmas Frank Sinatra – The Christmas Album Chris Botti – December Kenny G – Faith Johnny Mathis – The Christmas Album Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas Dean Martin – Making Spirits Bright The Andy Williams Christmas Album Michael Bolton – This Is the Time, The Christmas Album The Ventures’ Christmas Album
Happy Holidays, Mike
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Post by Brit on Nov 26, 2007 14:41:21 GMT -5
Oh Dear! I thought you had some taste in music Mike!!!
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Post by michael on Nov 26, 2007 18:14:04 GMT -5
Oh Dear! I thought you had some taste in music Mike!!! George, George, George, I had a feeling that I'd be disappointing you with my list of Christmas pop & fluff music... but surely, the Peter Nero and the Philly Pops has to account for something in your lofty appraisal of music. Happy Holidays, Mike
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Post by Brit on Nov 27, 2007 17:43:15 GMT -5
Yes, forgive my snobbish pomposity when it comes to music, but maybe I didn't make it clear a great deal of it was tongue in cheek my friend.
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Post by slb2 on Nov 29, 2007 1:57:55 GMT -5
And Sir Brit, you didn't notice the tongue in Mike's cheek? NO!!! That's not my tongue! For goodness sake's!
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Post by joew on Dec 2, 2007 0:34:19 GMT -5
Well, I went to the Handel and Haydn "Messiah" on Friday night. (They gave excerpts in their first year, 1815, and gave the first complete American performance in 1818. Beginning in 1845, they've performed it every year.) It was a very good performance, conducted by Harry Christophers, with relatively unknow soloists, all of whom were quite good. The tenor was perhaps the weakest link vocally, but he did something very interesting. When he got up to sing, he kept his score closed, holding it at about waist level, which gave an impression that he was singing spontaneously, telling us about what he had expeienced. The bass was satisfyingly strong on the low notes, but did not have to strain for the high ones. The alto had a rich voice; and the soprano was clear-voiced. All sang their parts well. A note in the program booklet said that the performances were being recorded for broadcast on WGBH on Sunday, December 23, at 2:00 p.m. EST. You can catch it on the web at that time on www.wgbh.org and I definitely recommend it. Of the H&H Messiahs I've attended in recent years, this was the most satisfying.
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