Music I love

[Shostakovich]

Another one, for a good laugh (R rated)

[Shostakovich]

Nor shall we forget:



There is something old-timey about it, not quite certain I can put my finger on it.

And, what the heck, just to show you what a hipster and rake I am:



but the video is for the birds, and Tool plays the artists ruse too much, dwelling always on the dark side.

And do it's back to basics after all:

[Son of Clyde]

Eleven year old guitarist.



One of my favorite songs.



Great ballad.

[threeships]

[JohnDearGreen]

Emmylou Harris : Save The Last Dance For Me
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsxFjONXIA&feature=PlayList&p=19E66FFBE8EEBE13&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=54[/youtube]

EH at Billy Bob's
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5TfRdLUnPo&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-NyQbNz6Hc&feature=related[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

Save The Last Dance For Me

Originally released in 1960 by Ben E. King with The Drifters:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix8QBOCWQtA[/youtube]

Ben E. King (born September 28, 1938) is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me," a U.S. top 10 hit in both 1961 and 1987 and a #1 hit in the UK in 1987, and as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group The Drifters.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

From the same period (late 1950s), the Everly Brothers:

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKn6h2x5IcY[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUoN50lkRi4[/youtube]

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLuWciXFcM[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-4cmjTA1s[/youtube]

[OlgaH]

One of my favorite Russian singers Larissa Dolina

[youtube=425,350]hvQyV0sTvjI[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]d_rwzRWbUJs&feature=related[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

C'est ci bon (1947), in other interpretations:

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib87HRYSZ8g[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5WVkl_f7_E[/youtube]

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiUrtbRsbE[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFCS7kZwxug[/youtube]

[Son of Clyde]

Yesterday I decided to listen to Yma Sumac, a singer from the 50's with a 4 or 5 octave range. I decided not to post anything here for fear of being banned for life.
If anyone wants to hear her go to Youtube.

[Shostakovich]

Yesterday I decided to listen to Yma Sumac, a singer from the 50's with a 4 or 5 octave range. I decided not to post anything here for fear of being banned for life.
If anyone wants to hear her go to Youtube.

Come on Son, be like Shosty and master your fears:

[Antonia_Kas]

Why Yma Sumac should cause any problem, I wonder? One of my favs.....

[SANDRO43]

Yesterday I decided to listen to Yma Sumac, a singer from the 50's with a 4 or 5 octave range.

I remember her, she was nicknamed the Nightingale of the Andes :

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6eKroZeIg[/youtube]

[dogspot]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIvRXCV9lk[/youtube]

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[Shostakovich]

Pretty cool Dogspot.

I don't suppose there are any Norweigan black metal fans in the house? 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luFCBdS5PAs[/youtube]

No?  Truth is, I don't like it much either

Here is what your girl's mom and dad were required to think is cool

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdVTVR-j0Q[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

I just finished MIDI-sequencing one of my favourite pieces - Maurice Ravel's La Valse (1919-1920) - and uploaded it to the 'Concert Hall' page of my website:

www.floriani.it/hall-eng.htm

It was a considerable job - 755 measures for a total of 18', with 27 modulations to different keys - which I did in order to gain some insight into the technique of this master orchestrator .

[SANDRO43]

On a different note :

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJhcEnBM70&NR=1[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqgO63b59c[/youtube]

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZH8zTzjQpE[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQxmqKzyQY[/youtube]

[JohnDearGreen]

Typical WMVM first introduction:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im_plNH0p0&feature=related[/youtube]

One for those who still have their Christmas LIGHTS on:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAze4zYE3Qg[/youtube]

[Shostakovich]

Uh-Oh, more hipster music from Shosty!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEQNAZGoZrw&feature=PlayList&p=C4F3C88E46AFE508&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

That vocalist reminds me of:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVf2NCGkgTU[/youtube]

Who not only sings in English, but in Gaelic and Latin as well:

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxRj-ejoJaM[/youtube]  [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnxzqQqO6hI[/youtube]

Regina coeli is a famous 12th-century Marian antiphon which later was set to polyphony by several composers, Mozart included. My choir is preparing Antonio Lotti's (1666-1740) version:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XFy_cze3Z8[/youtube]

[Shostakovich]

Ah yes, Sinead.  I suppose she's got an edge.  But it is true, many Irish I know also do, as do many groups with a violent history, perhaps explaining the Russian variation on the theme as well.

Perhaps her Regina coeli was a token of her healing.  Emotional turbulence supplies a great creative force in the arts.  Knowing that has spawned a legion of poseurs - whose aim is not art but to mine out a fortune by finding the correct expression of angst to match the age.  Also perhaps an artist can begin on the right footing, find an audience and seek to maintain their power with feigned expression.  That is what happened to Elvis, McCartney and not a few others.

Music does have strong trans-formative power and addresses a person at many levels.  At a certain level I think punk can be trans-formative; it gets one moving at least.  One discards the childish things though and moves on.  Many people don't like this but I think the concept of 'higher' arts is valid in that the higher arts correspond, sometimes in complicated ways, to more elevated states of human development.  Which is not to say that all elevated people listen to Bach as there are many pathways through which human development may take place.  Anyway there is this notion that intrigues, stating that the 'music' happens between the notes.  That the notes set a stage for the perception of silence.  This has a certain ring about it and seems very Asian.  A display at our Seattle art museum  teaches that the Chinese art of the tea is not about the tea flavors but is intended to introduce one to different aspects of water.  So the long pause in this well-known piece of music has always intrigued:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9iXnbBo8c[/youtube]   

 

[Shostakovich]

I was spoiled by Glenn Gould (and had the rare opportunity to introduce my husband to an artist he was unfamiliar with)

Good ol' Glenn.  They don't make them like they used to.  Much as I really am a big fan of Glenn I will say that his radical interpretations of Bach seem to miss the mark.  That is why I've posted the Goldberg under Schiff, who, in my mind takes the cake for the interpretation of Bach.  On the other hand, consider this:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc2gUk6Ag-0&feature=PlayList&p=942CD12D3C87BF15&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=60[/youtube]

[Seeker]

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My favorite group... and one of my favorite songs.

[Boethius]

I will say that his radical interpretations of Bach seem to miss the mark.  That is why I've posted the Goldberg under Schiff

The Schiff did nothing for me.  We're all different, which is good.

[SANDRO43]

Speaking of Ireland, here are two typical musical forms of the Green Island, the fast Reel and the slow Air:

[youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hk13Dn7ePY[/youtube] [youtube=325,250]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-No-yKmiiA[/youtube]

I think both forms influenced American music considerably, and the Irish dance is probably the 'forefather/foremother' of:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_o9pXLZKtM[/youtube]

Tap dancing .