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Post by jhar26 on Feb 23, 2014 14:26:39 GMT -5
'Course always the chance she may end up the 'next' Miley Cyrus in 8 or 10 years . I doubt it. It would be embarrassing to her (I hope). But she's not brought up in a achy breaky heart kinda world, so her pride and self-respect will probably be a bit higher whereas to Miley Beethoven is just a dog she's seen in a movie.
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Post by egoodstein on Feb 23, 2014 23:43:42 GMT -5
I doubt it. It would be embarrassing to her (I hope). But she's not brought up in a achy breaky heart kinda world, so her pride and self-respect will probably be a bit higher whereas to Miley Beethoven is just a dog she's seen in a movie. Hahaha. You're probably right. I hope. Even now she's working with a much broader musical 'palettte' than the Mileys of the world. (Okay, not very hard that, but still!). I hope whatever direction she goes, she retains her enthusiasm, & uses her intelligence, talent and experience in ways that are meaningful to her.
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Post by robertaxel on Mar 9, 2014 17:04:48 GMT -5
I guess these guys are popular in some circles across the pond..like what I have seen and heard so far...
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Post by profblues on Mar 9, 2014 17:36:46 GMT -5
after watching the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert last night on my local PBS station...... (it's pledge week again apparently) I found myself today staying with the spirit today and listening to a couple of comps of Dylan covers that Walt made for me awhile back
Comp 1 One Too Many Mornings - Joan Baez My Back pages - The Byrds (naturally) Million Dollar Bash - Fairport Convention All I really Want to Do - Cher When the Ship Comes In - Peter Paul and Mary Paths of Victory - Odetta Farewell - Judy Collins All Along the Watchtower - Jimi (naturally) Sign on the Window - Melanie (the only clunker) Tomorrow is a Long Time - Rod Stewart It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Van Morrison A hard Rain is Gonna Fall - Brian Ferry Love is Just a Four Letter Word - Joan Baez It Ain't Me Babe - The Turtles (Johnny Cash would have been better) You Ain't Goin Nowhere - The Byrds Too Much of Nothing - Peter Paul and Mary If Not For You - George Harrison Poor Immigrant - Judy Collins This Wheel's On Fire _ Siouxsie and the Banshees Don't Think Twice It's Alright - Johnny Cash Percy's Song - Fairport Convention
Comp 2 Mr Tambourine Man -Judy Collins Long Time Gone - Odetta Everything is Broken - Kenny Wayne Shepherd You Ain't Going Nowhere - Joan Baez This Wheel's On Fire - The Byrds Tomorrow is A Long Time - Elvis It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Leon Russell I'll Keep It With Mine - Fairport Convention Blowin in the Wind - Peter Paul and Mary I'd Have You Anytime - George Harrison Tom Thumb's Blues - Judy Collins Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Vacels North Country Blues - Joan Baez Wicked Messenger - Patti Smith Spanish Harlem Incident - The Byrds Si Tu Dois Partir - Fairport Convention Gotta Serve Somebody - Etta James Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Peter Paul and Mary It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry -Leon Russell Long Ago, Far Away - Odetta
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 9, 2014 20:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Mar 10, 2014 18:12:52 GMT -5
British composer Steven Price's score to director Alfonso Cuaron's 2013 sci-fi drama GRAVITY, which garnered one of that film's seven Oscars. Four of the contemporary female American composer Cindy McTee's works here: Symphony No. 1 (Ballet For Orchestra); Circuits; Einstein's Dream; and Double Play. Her husband Leonard Slatkin conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Post by erik on Mar 11, 2014 14:47:59 GMT -5
The dark and creepy third movement of Bela Bartok's "Music For Strings, Percussion, And Celesta", as used in THE SHINING (hence Nicholson's "Here's Johnny!" scene here). The recording is the actual one used in that 1980 horror classic--a 1973 recording by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Herbert von Karajan:
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Post by Andrew on Mar 12, 2014 0:24:02 GMT -5
I saw a photograph of a Tastee Freeze a few minutes ago and now "Jack and Diane" is stuck in my noggin'.
Dammit, John Cougar. Why'd you have to go and do that?
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Post by erik on Mar 13, 2014 18:08:53 GMT -5
Two American masterpieces: that musical travelogue of the world's greatest continental trench composed by Ferde Grofe, and Robert Russell Bennett's symphonic picture of the Gershwins' "Porgy And Bess", made in the early 1980s by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and their conductor laureate Antal Dorati. Perhaps the greatest recording available of W.A. Mozart's beloved Clarinet Concerto, recorded in 1990, with the soloist Sabine Meyer utilizing a basset clarinet from the composer's time. It is paired with the composer's Sinfonia-Concertate for winds (which features members of her Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble). Hans Vonk conducts the Dresden State Orchestra here.
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Post by Andrew on Mar 16, 2014 10:09:31 GMT -5
At this moment. Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant (1970)
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 16, 2014 11:31:26 GMT -5
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Post by Andrew on Mar 24, 2014 1:17:46 GMT -5
This is where I'm at this evening.
These were shared with me by someone I fear I am falling in love with.
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 24, 2014 9:44:07 GMT -5
I like all those Arvo Part works & the Ligeti . Right now listening to very fine new duo album 'Tales' from classicalish guitarist doing jazz-oriented stuff Diego Barber, w. Craig Taborn on piano. He's a little like a 'Spanishy' Ralph Towner. Here's link w. snippets: www.sunnysiderecords.com/release_detail.php?releaseID=718Here, earlier more hard bop stuff:
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Post by Andrew on Mar 24, 2014 12:44:57 GMT -5
I'm appreciating this whole thread, because it gives me new things to check out. I almost think I should stop buying music, because I always hunger for something I haven't heard before. It's almost like buying DVDs. I already saw it! But with jazz and classical, it seems more enjoyable to listen and relisten. More layers, more fun. I'm definitely going to back through this whole thread (back into time) and check everything out that folks have recommended. Ron talks about when he "grew up" and his musical tastes moved more to rootsy stuff like blues and folk (correct me if I'm miscategorizing, Ron). I'm thinking I'm going through a similar transition. Anyway, right at this moment, this exact precise moment, I'm listening to this:
It may be time to finally go through that "Classical Music for Dummies" book I was gifted several years ago.
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 25, 2014 3:13:25 GMT -5
Glad you're getting into classical music and jazz, Andrew. Perhaps I will one of these days post a "beginners guide" or whatever I will call it which hopefully might help because it's a huge field with many genres and sub-genres, and when you start out it's hard to see the forrest through the trees (or something, as Ed would say).
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Post by erik on Mar 25, 2014 9:21:11 GMT -5
Revisiting a couple of classic Western film scores from 1969: Both of these movies, released just a mere three weeks apart in the late spring of 1969, changed the way we all thought about the West and the Western, and Ennio Morricone (for ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST) and Jerry Fielding (for THE WILD BUNCH) provided the scores that helped in that changing (IMHO).
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Post by Andrew on Mar 27, 2014 20:31:54 GMT -5
Glad you're getting into classical music and jazz, Andrew. Perhaps I will one of these days post a "beginners guide" or whatever I will call it which hopefully might help because it's a huge field with many genres and sub-genres, and when you start out it's hard to see the forrest through the trees (or something, as Ed would say). Well to be clear, I have been into jazz for over 15 years now It's also true I'm no expert. I just know I like it. As for classical, now that I've heard some really really good avant garde stuff, I'm disappointed with how pedestrian the local classical radio station really is. If Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach can be called "pedestrian." ;-)
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Post by erik on Mar 27, 2014 20:54:05 GMT -5
A 1997 recording of two Schubert symphonies (nos. 3 and 8) made by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, plus a transcription for piano and orchestra made by Franz Liszt of Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasy", with Boris Berezovsky at the piano (this last work will be spotlighted this coming Saturday [March 29th]).
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Post by Andrew on Mar 28, 2014 21:22:02 GMT -5
Been listening to Mary Chapin Carpenter's latest, "Songs From the Movie." Very mature, singer-songwriter. I don't hear any country in this at all. This is more Joni Mitchell territory I think. Super mellow, vulnerable, lovely, sad.
Recommended to all.
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Post by profblues on Mar 29, 2014 8:45:58 GMT -5
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 29, 2014 9:59:45 GMT -5
Right at the moment, I'm listening to the new album from Swiss jazz pianist Colin Vallon's trio, 'Le Vent' which I like a lot. Sort of 'impressionistic' chamber jazz. Here's 1st track: Last night was listening to new Mozart Arias album by Canadian singer Karina Gauvin. (She's mostly noted for earlier stuff, but w. smallish orchestra approach, I like this quite a lot on early hearing): Here's album promo: Also, yesterday , enjoying fascinating new album of early rare B'way/stage songs from DC trio Three for a Song. Very arch/old fashioned & kinda camp a la Noel Coward & kinship to the old Ben Bagley ' Painted Smiles' rare B'way albums if anyone knows those : . And one I hadn't heard in a few years, New England folk singer Sara Grey's 'Back in the Airly Days' from '98. Some NE stories as well as variety of kinds of folk songs. Like her a lot: Not on this album, but here's Sara: . Some album info: waterbug.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=105
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Post by Andrew on Mar 30, 2014 9:53:04 GMT -5
Glad you're getting into classical music and jazz, Andrew. Perhaps I will one of these days post a "beginners guide" or whatever I will call it which hopefully might help because it's a huge field with many genres and sub-genres, and when you start out it's hard to see the forrest through the trees (or something, as Ed would say). Gaston: I should have said first, I for one would be very excited to read/listen to your Guide to the Forest beginners's guide, because you're right. I'm finding stuff pretty darn randomly and it isn't always easy to see how it fits. And even the most-played greats, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Chopin, the Russians...I don't know who was a contemporary of whom, and who influenced whom, etc.
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Post by Andrew on Apr 4, 2014 23:19:28 GMT -5
Stunning!
Shirley Bassey - "I Am What I Am" In front of a VERY appreciative audience!
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Post by erik on Apr 13, 2014 13:25:05 GMT -5
A pair of recordings, one by the reigning Queen of Country Rock ( Duets), the other by one of her many fellow female thespian peers ( Everlasting).
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Post by profblues on Apr 13, 2014 15:02:12 GMT -5
Rainy day here in K-drag has me listening to Sirius/XM Radio and Outlaw Country
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