Music I love

[Boethius]

I am a big fan of both the Dance of the Knights and Karajan, in general.  Thanks, Sandro.

[SANDRO43]

Moving further east:

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And...

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As well as...

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More recently...

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And the beautiful dances from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker Suite:

[BdHvA]

While not a big fan of romantic classical music the 9th by Beethoven is amazing.

Would prefer to hear Glass or Reich but if we are going to "pop" music than there are pieces from Massive Attack and Coldplay. There is as well C. Porter & J. Brel as well

On the other side of the coin there is something about the Gershwin's and I. Stravinsky that is great.

[Anotherkiwi]

More recently...

Although the Auckland Town Hall is nowhere near the biggest concert venue in Auckland, it is generally acknowledged to have the best acoustics.  The organ, some of whose pipes you can see at the top of the picture when the camera zooms out, underwent a huge restoration from 2008 at a cost of 3.5 million dollars.  It officially returned to service on 21st March 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Town_Hall#Organ

[SANDRO43]

Apropos of Avram Kachaturian, I just remembered another beautiful piece of his music, the Adagio from his ballet Spartacus and Phrygia, used as opening theme of "The Onedin Line", a BBC TV drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980 - I saw a few episodes at the end of 1971 while in London :

[SANDRO43]

MUSIC: WHEN? WHY? HOW?

Music lovers may have asked themselves such questions occasionally:

- WHEN was music first made by a human?
- WHY does it affect us so profoundly?
- HOW does it work on our brain and mind?

For answers, solid and/or tentative, I highly recommend reading "This is Your Brain on Music" (2000, Atlantic Books, 322 pages, $9.99) by Dr. Daniel j. Levitin, a one-time musical producer turned cognitive psychologist, who writes simply and often humorously about the scientific progresses in this fascinating field of enquiry.

It is also a downloadable PDF from http://m.friendfeed-media.com/0d7777c5b0749041ff5bdb39fa14401731bdc211.

[BdHvA]

I have always liked The Planets of Gustav Holst.

Poor Pluto was "discovered" in 1916 and was recently de-planetized, perhaps Russia could be interested in sending little green men to it.

In any event a wonderful piece of music..

[SANDRO43]

Another interesting read on music's effects:

A 2007 book by Oxford-educated neurologist Oliver Sacks (CBE, FRCP) who lamentably died last August and is better known for another book of his, Akekenings, made into a movie in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro:

Musicophilia relates Sack's experiences from 1966 to 1991 as a consulting neurologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center, where he discovered that music was the only stimulus that could awaken - even if only temporarily - patients suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's and other mentally incapacitating conditions from their total torpor and inaction.

This book, too, can be downloaded in a PDF version at http://www.art-13.ru/sites/default/files/musicophilia.pdf.

[SANDRO43]

To think of all that this experiment started :

The "Frying Pan"or "Pancake Guitar", 1932

The first electrically amplified guitar was designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, General Manager at National Guitar Corporation..The maple body prototype for the one piece cast aluminum "Frying Pan" was built by Harry Watson, factory superintendent of National Guitar Corporation.[3] Commercial production began in late summer of 1932 by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation.

[tfcrew]

Using Auslan which is really similar to American Sign Language ....
Sia ...a really fine in every way lady .....a super voice

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Another Sia 
The epileptic type dancing convulsions and seizures  are performed by a kid named Maddy.

[JohnDearGreen]

Looks like Kate G., Ms Salsa 2008, has now moved from Kyiv to Vienna, and
teaching at Mi Manera studio.

[SANDRO43]

I never liked chamber music played by string trios, quartets, etc. - all too often they seemed to my ears to be "meowing" in their performances due to faulty instrumental intonations - and know very little about this musical area.

Until a few nights ago, when I watched a TV documentary on the Quartetto Italiano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartetto_Italiano), a group active from 1945 to 1980 and judged by many musical experts to have been the best string quartet ever:

They received glowing accolades from major musical figures like directors Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arturo Toscanini. As you can see from the photo, for most of their 35-year career they had no scores before them and played all from memory in their recitals.

[SANDRO43]

For  those who might be interested in knowing how I create my music, a page recently added to my website explaining the process: www.floriani.it/MIDI-eng.htm.

[Darth_Budda]

Times they are a changing...

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St Pats Day...
     Bust out a Guinness or six



           

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The single "The Way" stayed on top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks, and was a top five hit on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart. Scalzo was inspired to write the song in 1997, after reading a news article about Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple who had disappeared in Texas.^[4] Though Lela had Alzheimers and Raymond was recovering from brain surgery, the couple had been driving to a local festival. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.^[5] Scalzo chose to imagine that they began reminiscing and decided to become ethereal beings on a permanent romantic trip, the answer to the song's question "where were they going without ever knowing the way?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastball_%28band%29

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[The Natural]

When it comes to Music my favourite is rock and considering my list of favourite Groups/artists, I must conclude England offers the most and the best.

No. 1 is Pink Floyd and it's leading man and also solo, Roger Waters. Pure genious lyrics even if you don't agree to it all. Progressive rock seems to be my taste; Genesis and Marillion. Here's a taste of the fantastic Music of Marillion:



Justin Case Our American friends feels left out, I must add that I also highly like the Music of American artists like Bruce Speringsteen, Eagles and Dr. Hook. And I just love the song "Sweet home Alabama".

[Boethius]

My favourite version.


Sandro, this is for you. 

[Boethius]

Love this whole album.