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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 23, 2015, 5:45 am
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[quote author=bradley link=topic=280.msg3246#msg3246
date=1447738220]
Kerry, its good music and good graphics as well. Relaxing!
[/quote]I love Chopin even if I was never all that good at
playing him. Some people might even say I was lousy since I
often ignored some of the directions; and I had some criticism
thrown my way -- but to be honest about it, some pianists do.
It's astonishing to read the musical directions, such as when to
get loud and soft, and then see how performers defy them. I
doubt Chopin would mind.. The poor fellow had tuberculosis and
lacked the vigor to play too loudly. He was listening to
someone performing one of his pieces once and the pianist hit
the keys so hard he broke a string. Chopin said he wished he
could do that! What an endearing comment.
I used to play this --Chopin's Nocturne in EbM Op.9 No.2. I
loved doing the trills. I could do it fairly well; but I
assure you Rubenstein does it better. I love the plaintive
wistful mood of this music. The graphics don't do much here
though.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk
And I also loved to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata -- the
first movement. It isn't that hard.
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 23, 2015, 8:09 am
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Shifting gears . . . . When I used to go out dancing, this
was one of my favorites songs.
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go by Soft Cell
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And another favorite -- if I did it before, never mind but I
love to hear this again and again: I Will Survive by Gloria
Gaynor
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Re: Some Music
By: Oneoff Date: November 24, 2015, 1:40 am
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 28, 2015, 10:13 am
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Here we go with an old song from the 20's -- Hallelujah! I'm a
Bum! sung by Harry M McClintock. I was singing this the other
day in my car.
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 28, 2015, 10:25 am
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Of course, the song about being a bum is making a little bit of
fun of religious types with its "revive us again." Here's
another song that's more antireligious. Joe Hill's TThe
Preacher and the Slave, also sung by McClintock.
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That reminds me of Joan Baez. I was never one for attending
many concerts; but I did hear her sing this at a concert in
Philadelphia. I was singing too in my car lately. It reminds
me of how a life can have impact even after the body dies -- the
"works" go on. It reminds me of what John wrote about works
following people:
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours; and their works do follow them.
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And here's Pete Seeger's version:
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Even if you don't like unions, the message of how we live on
after death seems like a good one to me with "our works"
following us.
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 28, 2015, 10:33 am
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And here's one of my favorite pieces of music for violin. This
is the Adagio from Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.
This music gives me goosebumps. If music really, really moves
me, it gives me goosebumps.
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: November 28, 2015, 10:56 am
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Here are three more slow pieces. First Albinoni's Adagio in G
Minor for Violin, Strings, and Organ Continuo.
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Then there's Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. He lived in
West Chester where one branch of my Father's family settled when
they came to America while my Father's branch went further west
-- but I retain a fondness for both West Chester and Barber.
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Among other things, he wrote an Agnus Dei. This was recorded
by the Choir of New College, Oxford:
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Re: Some Music
By: Heartsong Date: December 2, 2015, 5:08 am
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John Farnham - You're The Voice (lyrics)
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: December 2, 2015, 11:18 pm
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[quote author=Heartsong link=topic=280.msg3394#msg3394
date=1449054492]
John Farnham - You're The Voice (lyrics)
[/quote]Thanks for that. Something about the intro to that song
reminded me of this -- don't know why. My mind has its quirks,
I guess.
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Re: Some Music
By: Kerry Date: December 5, 2015, 7:18 am
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Now for some opera. Here's the charming Charlotte Church along
with one of her young friends doing the famous "Evening Prayer"
from Humperdinck's opera, Hansel and Gretel. This is an
English translation. I first heard this song by doing it
myself. It was in an songbook I inherited from my Grandparents.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_RwW0MYGA
Kathleen Battle is one of my favorite sopranos. Here she is
with Frederica von Stade doing it in the original German.
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