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Re: Music I love
« Reply #975 on: December 21, 2011, 09:13:44 AM »
an African rendition of a Schubert composition
Including a few redheads ;D, as well as several images of Yemanjá, an orisha originally of the Yoruba and a sea goddess in various creeds of African origin, syncretised with the Stella Maris aspect of the Virgin Mary.


Long ago, a Carioca colleague of mine took me to Ipanema beach on the night of December 30th to witness a non-touristic Yemanjá candomblé rite, which included setting adrift small floaters containing a lighted candle: the further they moved offshore, the more luck for the maker in the coming year :).
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #976 on: December 21, 2011, 01:13:12 PM »
Intelligent Men... Wonderful Music...

What More Can I Ask For ?  :)

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #977 on: December 21, 2011, 05:03:28 PM »
Intelligent Men... Wonderful Music...

What More Can I Ask For ?  :)



Moon Goddess, have you ever seen a 45-rpm vinyl record?  I have never heard of the Star-Tels, yet the music seems to come from the time of my misspent younger days and my music genre then (not now).   You stumped me.  :clapping:   I Googled Star-Tels and found nothing.   I assume early 70s.   
 

 
You are very sophisticated:  Superb English, British humor, classic music, other genres, and recognition of Sandro's  intellectual depth.  I hope the young men recognize a real prize.   

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #978 on: December 21, 2011, 05:07:45 PM »
...and to think that it all started with...a Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom ;D

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #979 on: December 22, 2011, 08:04:28 AM »
I hope the young men recognize a real prize.   

The young men?  They don't  recognize that, by accepting a "real prize", any liability concerning or arising out of "use of prize"  ;) rests solely with them   :D

Take you back to the sixties:  London 1966,  the London Eye is yet to sit where that video is being filmed, I guess :)



That video was broadcast by the BBC about two months ago, I liked the song
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #980 on: December 22, 2011, 09:40:59 AM »
...I liked the song
Dont Go Please Stay, also recorded as 60's R&B by the Drifters, and 70's disco-ized by Jay and the Americans, but sounds best when done 50's style:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #981 on: December 22, 2011, 10:11:05 AM »
Another Stay...from the 1960s ;):
 
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #982 on: December 22, 2011, 11:02:40 AM »
The most common word used in 2010′s top pop songs was "OH"

"I wanted to create a word cloud that would tell us something about the state of society today. What words do we use most often? What is the language of the zeitgeist? I decided the best way to do this was to dissect the world of pop music"

http://infographicsfordummies.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/wordle-reveals-most-common-word-used-in-2010s-top-pop-songs-as-oh/

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Oh, oh, oh

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #983 on: December 22, 2011, 12:25:34 PM »
"Also in the news" :)

A Top of the Pops David Bowie performance thought lost has been aired for the first time on television since 1973

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16280335

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #984 on: December 22, 2011, 04:02:41 PM »
Another Stay...from the 1960s ;) :
 

Fantastic Sandro!   I know this group as they came from near my hometown.    Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs with roots in black gospel music.   The song's rhythm encouraged grinding one's hips and was a welcomed departure from doo wop music.  I was just a kid with sex thoughts throughout the day; I had no experience other than my cousin letting me feel her newly formed breasts.   Crazy days.
 
Maurice Williams wrote a doo wop song in the 1950s that was later covered by a white group, The Diamonds, as one of Rock n Roll's Hall of Fame hits - "Little Darling." I assume it was popular in your Italy.  Here they are 47 years later:
 

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #985 on: December 22, 2011, 04:11:23 PM »
Moon Goddess,
 
I first thought that  Russian contemporary music had no soul.   Then I was convinced otherwise by Russian pop that fused what seem  to be Middle Eastern (Turkish, Georgian?) rhythms such as this one by Liana.  Thanks.  This is much better than that stuff from the 50s and 60s.

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #986 on: December 22, 2011, 05:43:23 PM »
Maurice Williams wrote a doo wop song in the 1950s that was later covered by a white group, The Diamonds, as one of Rock n Roll's Hall of Fame hits - "Little Darling." I assume it was popular in your Italy.
I still have the vinyl 45 RPM ;). Here they are 47 54 years later:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #987 on: December 23, 2011, 05:42:55 PM »
With respect for the Christmas season....

A VERY Merry Christmas to one and all!



 
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #988 on: December 24, 2011, 11:33:09 AM »
Just to remind   ;)

The famous "Carol of the Bells"  sung worldwide during the Christmas season was arranged by the Ukrainian composer M. Leontovich, and it is based on a Ukrainian folk chant known in this country as "Shchedryk”

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #989 on: December 25, 2011, 08:16:09 PM »
MUSIC TO REDEEM THE DESTITUTES

Music as a means to avoid the low life of the barrios, obtain a more fulfilling future and possibly also find a rewarding job.

Venezuelan musician José Antonio Abreu was inspired to found in 1975 El Sistema, formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela, a network of music schools, first in Caracas then elsewhere in his country. 


The peak of Abreu's Sistema is the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar:


There were similar initiatives in the past ;):


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In September 1703, Vivaldi became maestro di violino (master of violin) at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà (Devout Hospital of Mercy) in Venice. While Vivaldi is most famous as a composer, he was regarded as an exceptional technical violinist as well...Vivaldi was only 25 when he started working at the Ospedale della Pietà. Over the next thirty years he composed most of his major works while working there. There were four similar institutions in Venice; their purpose was to give shelter and education to children who were abandoned or orphaned, or whose families could not support them. They were financed by funds provided by the Republic. The boys learned a trade and had to leave when they reached 15. The girls received a musical education, and the most talented stayed and became members of the Ospedale's renowned orchestra and choir.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #990 on: December 26, 2011, 09:14:52 AM »
Those years of innocence are magical

Adorable 4-year-old drummer  :clapping:

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« Reply #991 on: December 26, 2011, 09:32:01 AM »
Adorable 4-year-old drummer  :clapping:
Quite acccomplished :o. Maybe he'll turn out like one of these two ;):

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« Reply #992 on: December 26, 2011, 11:54:07 AM »
Quite acccomplished :o. Maybe he'll turn out like one of these two ;):
Time will tell!  ;)

Those little girls, Sophia and Rosie, made me weep with laughter. They are adorable,  albeit precocious :)
Poor Rosie didn't get much of a look in, but she seemed ever so happy just to be there :)

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« Reply #993 on: December 29, 2011, 11:22:16 AM »
Splendid performance by a Genius playing another Genius !

I wonder if Johann Sebastian Bach would mind having this music (originally written for harpsichord) played on a piano  :-\
Maestro, what think You of it?   :)

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #994 on: December 29, 2011, 03:52:28 PM »
Por La Herida De Un Amor.  Rap Salsa, uno de los mejores! diferente y muy buena.

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #995 on: December 29, 2011, 06:04:26 PM »
Maestro, what think You of it? :)
Supposing this was addressed to me ;), in general I think that harpsichord pieces played on the piano violate their original 'atmosphere', considering the profound difference between the two instruments: the almost total absence of dynamics in the harpsichord led to scores with closely grouped short notes, trills, etc. that sound sort of homeless on a piano, and also lack the typical guitar-like sound of the plucked instrument ::).


J.S. Bach wrote about 12 harpsichord concertos, mostly recycled from previous pieces for violin(s) - for 1, 2, 3 and even 4 keyboards. 



As can be seen in the above score, the keyboards parts are mostly in semiquavers. I also think J.S. was strongly influenced by Vivaldi, whose Grosso Mogul violin concerto (RV 208) he knew and transcribed for solo organ (BWV 594) and then used in his first Concerto (in D minor, BWV 1052). To my ear, those concertos have a distinct Venetian flavour.

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« Reply #996 on: December 30, 2011, 06:39:02 AM »
I am ashamed to say that I have only recently discovered this pianist  :-[
His facial expressions seem to communicate the pleasure of being immersed in the flow of sounds and the joy of his music-making to which the pianist brings an original and very personal approach, IMHO.

He is David Fray  :clapping:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #997 on: December 31, 2011, 10:33:00 AM »
Some down home  Russian music at the Rhythm&Blues cafe in Moscow:



Sad to say, but that was the best I found from scanning the R&B cafe videos.
The Latin music at the Chesterfield Club in Moscow sounds a little better....and
they appear to need a few more guys at the Thursday night Salsa lessons:

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« Reply #998 on: January 05, 2012, 07:09:25 PM »
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
(1879–1936)
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Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy. He was taught piano and violin by his father, who was a local piano teacher. He went on to study violin and viola with Federico Sarti at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, composition with Giuseppe Martucci, and historical studies with Luigi Torchi, a scholar of early music. A year after receiving his diploma in violin in 1899, Respighi went to Russia to be principal violist in the orchestra of the Russian Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg during its season of Italian opera. While there he studied composition for five months with Rimsky-Korsakov. He then returned to Bologna, where he earned a second diploma in composition...He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma); Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma); and Roman Festivals (Feste romane).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottorino_Respighi




Since he studied composition with Korsakov, it's no surprise he was a great orchestrator, i.e. a composer with a very rich orchestral palette, as can be immediately surmised by noticing the large ensembles needed to play his pieces ;).

Among other composers with the same bent for rich orchestral colours one can list Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Debussy, etc. Many of their compositions bore titles like symphonic poem or capriccio, and were meant to convey particular atmospheres with those colours.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #999 on: January 07, 2012, 09:43:30 PM »
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