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inferno by Skeletalmess Thanks !
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of course , I also have the original B&W picture HERE, more classic
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Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Edgar Allan Poe
Pic By Pammy
You know the words "once upon a time"
Make you listen, there's a reason
When you dream there's a chance you'll find
A little laughter, or happy ever after
You're a harmony to the melody
That's echoing inside my head
A single voice
: Single voice
Above the noise
And like a common thread
Hmm, you're pulling me
When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
Oh, you are the music in me
Yeah, it's living in all of us
And it's brought us here because
Because you are the music in me
Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na
You are the music in me
It's like I knew you before we met
Can't explain it
There's no name for it
I sang you words I've never said
And it was easy
Because you see the real me
As I am you understand
And that's more than I've ever known
To hear your voice
Hear your voice
Above the noise (oh)
And I know that I'm alone
Oh, you're singing to me
Ooh, yeah
When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
You are the music in me
It's living in all of us
And it's brought us here because
Because you are the music in me
Together we're gonna sing, yeah
We got the power to say what we feel
Troy: Connected and real
Can't keep it all inside, oh yeah
Troy: Ooh, yeah
It's brought us here because
You are the music in me
At the Kenwood festival in June 2022
The DJ's enthusiasm is contagious.
Someone
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed at how they are.
Yoko Ono
Photo Energy (TDjallo2022)UK
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As Lloyd Spiegel remarked during his concert, it felt like home! Still 30C in the evening it was no different than Melbourne, where he is from. Comfortable on the stage, where he performs since age 10; the Wunderkind is now over 40. He composes and sings many of his own songs. Usually, he performs solo, but Lisa Baird (Lily&King), a great fun trombone player, came to support him musically and keep company on the long tour through Canada.
220. Montreal P1650378; Taken 2023-July 03. Upload 2023-July 24.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
Cause I've been blastin' and laughin so long that
Even my ma'ma thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
Me, be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of ~~~~~~~~~~~~Coolio
I really hate to trip <--------listen here..
Posted for Musically Challenged...Gangstas paradise by Coolio
There was a classic car show in the neighbourhood. It is almost an annual event. Every year new cars pop up. The hat in this class Ford, Thunderbird (1956), attracted my attention; so did the colourful seat cover. I might eventually post some more captures from this festive musically-loaded show. Wish you a wonderful day....
I am inspired by many things. Musically by the genius of Miles Davis, hence my title which refers to, IMHO, one of the best jazz albums of all time. Likewise I come to Flickr for photographic inspiration. My views on photography and indeed the many genres of photography that I attempt have been heavily influenced by so many talented people here on Flickr. One of them is Joseph Pearson Images, a London architectural photographer who has photographed so many of the same buildings and structures around London that I have but both of us do it in our own way. Its always interesting for me to see his take on a building that I am very familiar with myself and see what his 'eye' picked out. Usually it's something I've missed and so my education continues!
Yesterday Joseph posted a picture of one of my favourite underground stations here in London, Southwark station, and it got me looking back at some of the pictures I've taken over the years in this most photogenic of stations. I was surprised to see that I'd never posted this escalator shot so thought I'd do so now. Taken pre-covid, way back in 2019.
Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me by Mel Carter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKturN4Beyg
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" is a song written by Harry Noble and originally performed by Karen Chandler in 1952. It has been re-recorded several times since then, with the most notable covers being by Mel Carter in 1965 and by Gloria Estefan in 1994.
The Moldau (Vltava) River, flowing across Bohemia, Czech Republic, as it passes through Prague
Smetana: The Moldau | Czech Philharmonic & Semyon Bychkov
youtu.be/fiOGCwZGgXY?si=I6oAgfmq89hIoOZO
This is a symphonic poem by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana that musically narrates the course of Bohemia's most important river, symbolizing the Czech soul, nature, and patriotism, from its sources in two streams to its passage through Prague, becoming a cultural icon and symbol of resistance, especially during the Nazi occupation.
Lavender Twilight
lavender twilight
birds seeking their rest on high
musically sighing
soft murmurs so sweet
fill the evenings late hours
quiet now at rest
heads tucked under wings
little souls now full of peace
waiting for the dawn
TYSM Sonya Deperla for an amazing photo<3
Calton Hill.
I've not had any internet access all week - so apologies for not commenting on photos. Same deal next week unfortunately.
When I was young, and lived in Kent, I had not seen Edinburgh, except for on the cover of an LP of Scottish songs. It was fairly dreadful musically, but this was the view, which I didn't see until I was in my 30s, despite living near Edinburgh from age 7.
Pic by Pammy
Black n White
You know the words "once upon a time"
Make you listen, there's a reason
When you dream there's a chance you'll find
A little laughter, or happy ever after
You're a harmony to the melody
That's echoing inside my head
A single voice
: Single voice
Above the noise
And like a common thread
Hmm, you're pulling me
When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
Oh, you are the music in me
Yeah, it's living in all of us
And it's brought us here because
Because you are the music in me
Na na na na
Na na na na
Na na na na
You are the music in me
It's like I knew you before we met
Can't explain it
There's no name for it
I sang you words I've never said
And it was easy
Because you see the real me
As I am you understand
And that's more than I've ever known
To hear your voice
Hear your voice
Above the noise
And I know that I'm alone
Oh, you're singing to me
Ooh, yeah
When I hear my favorite song
I know that we belong
You are the music in me
It's living in all of us
And it's brought us here because
Because you are the music in me
Together we're gonna sing, yeah
We got the power to say what we feel
Troy: Connected and real
Can't keep it all inside, oh yeah
Troy: Ooh, yeah
It's brought us here because
You are the music in me
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically,
in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous,
I let go.
Reality doesn't impress me.
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy,
and when ordinary life shackles me,
I escape,
one way or another.
No more walls.”
― Anais Nin
...Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life
Still pushing the Musically Challenged group. My list of songs goes up tomorrow so stop by and play along :-)
I did this one way back in May of 2010.
Here at Cape Arkona there are no possibilities to lie down in the warm sand. But it is still a paradise for the children. My two love to collect stones and analyze them. They are discovering so much right now.
Only so much no I stand here not in the water I jumped for the photo on one of these large rocks. That to the photo, musically you can try this, I like classical elements in a nevertheless ehr electronic piece.
niklas paschburg — reflections ♫
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Some give it two years; others say, half a year. The latest estimate is three months, at most ...
Elton John : Candle in the Wind
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrRLTgavus
Heifetz plays Melodie by Gluck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenI_FyFeZ0
Rachmaninoff plays Melodie by Gluck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O0mVzmftY
Heifetz plays Wieniawski Scherzo Tarantelle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv5XZbgNWEo
Heifetz, Tchaikovsky's Melodi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22YUP0zQ3sA
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Many music lovers find Horowitz and Martha Argerich spellbinding, yea, they are exciting but somehow I don't return to them often. Instead I would revisit Samuil Feinberg's Well-tempered Clavier from time to time. Needless to say, Mieczyslaw Horzowski and Maria Yudina's Bach are very inspiring too, particularly so for those who miss the chance of going to the Church:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=94XFV8X77U0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZJcpbDAxY
The French pianists of the older generation like Marguerite Long, Robert Casadesus, and Yves Nat or even Cortot are interesting too. Lesser known but equally amazing is
Lazare-Levy : Mozart Sonata in A Minor, K310
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0GEXiWBN8
Later on, we have :
Marcelle Meyer: Complete Inventions & Sinfonias, Partitas, Toccatas, Italian Concerto ..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHBTyagfZ4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAQ-FI5gGk&list=RDCMUC2zlRzq...
Scarlatti
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iiyzo9vdYA
And,
Yvonne Lefébure (among her pupils were Dinu Lipatti, Samson François) Mozart Concerto, No 20 with Furtwangler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idX9c58bdZE
Reine Gianoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hga9MGCpJXk
Then,
Nikita Magaloff in recital 4/4/1991 Tokyo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CLrpIfatSg
Chopin Etudes Op.10 & 25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQOK1MuTP8o
And then Samson Francois
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIw2mfcYpBM
Last but not the least, Brigitte Engerer who went the opposite direction of Magaloff who was first trained in Russia (by Siloti, Francis Lizst pupil, Rachmaninoff's cousin/mentor and assistant to Tchaikovsky ) ended up studying in France. Brigitte Engerer was first trained in France having won the first prize in Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud. She furthered her studies in Russia under Stanislav Heuhaus for 9 years:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8_upVBnT4
There was also the Polish pianist with a little bit of French Veneer, Halina Czerny-Stefańska : Chopin complete Polonaises, Heroïque, Militaire, Brillante, Fantaisie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wHiamaEen4&t=1639s
More French was Lithuania/Russia born Vlado Perlemuter who landed in France since he was three, who lost one eye and who actually spent quite sometime in an asylum:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zCli50F3xQ
86 Tokyo Recital
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svcMlCIxJ0
Well, never say never, the finishing touch of the winner of 2015 Chopin Internation Piano competition, a Korean, was also done in Paris, even though the influence of the Russian School seems to be stronger than the French in his Chopin:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZYYoDDmg8M
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I further stumbled into Edwin Fischer's WTC recorded in 1933-36 which I haven't gone through as yet. But Edwin Fischer, unlike his pupil Alfred Brendel, is almost always interesting despite his slips :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JysTlgUXuXk
Later on, we have Samuil Feinberg whom most serious pianists view as the best recorded WTC ever. After Feinberg, we have Tatiana Nikolayeva whose WTC ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNpwAZf6thY&t=72s ) is so fascinating. And then we have Evelyne Crochet, a more modern French reading of WTC and before her Walter Gieseking also recorded WTC. In between, I find Horszowski's WTC celestial. Wilhelm Kempff's WTC is appealing albeit in a totally different way from Yudin. But I'm unable to find the whole book of WTC from the latter two in record. Instead we have one from Canada and another lady pianist from US who was musically educated in Russia. Personally, I don't spend much time on the latter two. Oh, yes, Richter and Gulda recorded WTC as well. But it seems Bach music is so interwoven with spirituality, and by nature it snubs any showmanship at all...
O Sole Mio, Carlo Bergonzi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nNxw7c55Mk
Bunin: Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 in E major
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GStfo_f4L0g
An American living in China talking about the nCoV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rhyBKJXb4
On the Death of Dr. Li in Wuhan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Fy80yHYQo&t=9s
Toscha Seidel - Grieg Violin Sonata #3, Mvt 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=anTp1BExGes
Raoul Koczalski : Chopin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcV3P6zS30Q
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfmiuVSnDw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFSPMrxTgdk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=au33_fvyJng
www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTSwjBY8nQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOHg33Shwl8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fprBFVoMeU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRMyRYYGtQ
Tschaiovsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugn1MPF-T84&list=RDV_22HZ7T_F...
Scriabin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHPFrCJP6c4&list=RDsOHg33Shwl...
Schubert-Liszt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_22HZ7T_FQ&list=RDV_22HZ7T_F...
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In Conversation With: Toscha Seidel
"Studying with Professor Auer was a revelation. I had private lessons from him, and at the same time attended the classes at the Petrograd Conservatory. I should say that his great specialty, if one can use the word specialty in the case of so universal a master of teaching as the Professor, was bowing. In all violin playing the left hand, the finger hand, might be compared to a perfectly adjusted technical machine, one that needs to be kept well oiled to function properly. The right hand, the bow hand, is the direct opposite—it is the painter hand, the artist hand, its phrasing outlines the pictures of music; its nuances fill them with beauty of color. And while the Professor insisted as a matter of course on the absolute development of finger mechanics, he was an inspiration as regards the right manipulation of the bow, and its use as a medium of interpretation. And he made his pupils think. Often, when I played a passage in a concerto or sonata and it lacked clearness, he would ask me: 'Why is this passage not clear?' Sometimes I knew and sometimes I did not. But not until he was satisfied that I could not myself answer the question, would he show me how to answer it. He could make every least detail clear, illustrating it on his own violin; but if the pupil could 'work out his own salvation' he always encouraged him to do so.
"Most teachers make bowing a very complicated affair, adding to its difficulties. But Professor Auer develops a natural bowing, with an absolutely free wrist, in all his pupils; for he teaches each student along the line of his individual aptitudes. Hence the length of the fingers and the size of the hand make no difference, because in the case of each pupil they are treated as separate problems, capable of an individual solution. I have known of pupils who came to him with an absolutely stiff wrist; and yet he taught them to overcome it.
HOW TO STUDY
"Scale study—all Auer pupils had to practice scales every day, scales in all the intervals—is a most important thing. And following his idea of stimulating the pupil's self-development, the Professor encouraged us to find what we needed ourselves. I remember that once—we were standing in a corridor of the Conservatory—when I asked him, 'What should I practice in the way of studies?' he answered: 'Take the difficult passages from the great concertos. You cannot improve on them, for they are as good, if not better, as any studies written.' As regards technical work we were also encouraged to think out our own exercises. And this I still do. When I feel that my thirds and sixths need attention I practice scales and original figurations in these intervals. But genuine, resultful practice is something that should never be counted by 'hours.' Sometimes I do not touch my violin all day long; and one hour with head work is worth any number of days without it. At the most I never practice more than three hours a day. And when my thoughts are fixed on other things it would be time lost to try to practice seriously. Without technical control a violinist could not be a great artist; for he could not express himself. Yet a great artist can give even a technical study, say a Rode étude, a quality all its own in playing it. That technic, however, is a means, not an end, Professor Auer never allowed his pupils to forget. He is a wonderful master of interpretation. I studied the great concertos with him—Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Tschaikovsky, Dvoøák, the Brahms concerto (which I prefer to any other); the Vieuxtemps Fifth and Lalo (both of which I have heard Ysaye, that supreme artist who possesses all that an artist should have, play in Berlin); the Elgar concerto (a fine work which I once heard Kreisler, an artist as great as he is modest, play wonderfully in Petrograd), as well as other concertos of the standard repertory. And Professor Auer always sought to have us play as individuals; and while he never allowed us to overstep the boundaries of the musically esthetic, he gave our individuality free play within its limits. He never insisted on a pupil accepting his own nuances of interpretation because they were his. I know that when playing for him, if I came to a passage which demanded an especially beautiful legato rendering, he would say: 'Now show how you can sing!' The exquisite legato he taught was all a matter of perfect bowing, and as he often said: 'There must be no such thing as strings or hair in the pupil's consciousness. One must not play violin, one must sing violin!'
When the sun broke through the fog by -15°
I fondly remember that winter, even though getting to that dreamy place was quite a challenge. It snowed continuously throughout the night, and by morning there was about 60 cm of fresh snow covering the Swiss mountains. I was the first person that morning to walk through and admire this beautiful winter landscape. It was an experience that deeply impressed me and that I will never forget. It was truly beautiful to be in that spot, but getting there through the deep snow was so exhausting. Despite the icy cold, my whole body was pounding, and I quickly became so tired that I soon couldn't walk any further and had to turn back. But the experience of walking through that freshly snow-covered winter landscape was simply wonderful.
Fresh snow covers the fields, only silence, far and wide and in a moment I feel eternity.
This song holds such a powerful message for those suffering from mental illness. Because these are usually the kindest, sweetest and truest among us. They are gifted, many artfully or musically and their works are an expression of the love they hold inside. Like Vincent they too struggle to live in this tough world. Please remember to be kind.
(Diana Guzman)
Don McLean – Vincent
A classic and not only musically.
I have photographed this concert house at different times. Sometimes in the blue hour, sometimes boring and gray, in the sunrise and sunset. However, I found this version to be the most expressive. I am not a fan of repetitive photography.
So there will only be one version to discover in my stream.
It also makes it much easier to stay in the swing of things. ;) No not physically.... But photographically. What will we hear here? But of course what classical music.
hania rani — g-minor ♫
venice - infinitely avantgarde
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Our house is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy 'cause of yo
Dedicated to my dear and precious friend, Gérard Beaulieu...!
New group created by Skagitrenee
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The Hypothetical Awards musically-themed
April Challenge: The Hypo Music Festival!
Beethoven's 5 Secrets - OneRepublic - ThePianoGuys
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"Don't only practice your art, But force your way into it's secret. For it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine."
ThePianoGuys
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Violator is the seventh studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was first released on 19 March 1990.
Musically, Violator has been described as synth-pop, alternative rock, dance, and gothic rock. (Depeche Mode's) Martin L. Gore called the track "World in My Eyes" a very positive song. "It's saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things.
Regarding the album's title, Gore said, "We called it Violator as a joke. We wanted to come up with the most extreme, ridiculously Heavy Metal title that we could. I'll be surprised if people will get the joke."
It was ranked number 167 on Rolling Stone's 2020 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Violator has also featured on lists of the greatest albums of all time made by publications such as Q and Spin. (from Wikipedia)
"Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move, you just sit still
Now let your mind do the walking
And let my body do the talking
Let me show you the world in my eyes..."
I headed down to my favorite spot on the river last night to try some long exposure stuff. Not exactly what I was going for, the sky didn't do quite what I was hoping, but oh well.
***Do you like music? Think you know whats good when it comes to music?***
Then head on over to Musically Challenged and play along. And if you think you can enlighten us with your amazing musical taste then sign up HERE to get the chance to play your own list of 10 songs!
Bright Eyes- First Day of My Life
(40 of 52)²
!!!Attention Seattle Friends!!!
I might be over in your neck of the woods this weekend, anyone wanna get together and go shooting?
This night photograph was taken in Gardens by the Bay, overlooking the Dragonfly Lake towards the super-trees (which are designed and built "trees"). The musically synchronised lighting at the super-trees, and Mid-autumn Festival displays are reflected in the Dragonfly Lake.
"You move like dust in the sunlight
Hear the waves and you harmonize."
On Usedom, I was on the road by bike and could just stop to photograph. My strengths are not necessarily in nature photography, quiet and pleasant scenes I discover but still. Musically, we remain a little in the chill dance area.
jody wisternoff — brilliant eyes ♫
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www.dailymotion.com/video/xom4h2
cette vidéo parce qu'elle est pour moi un voyage extraordinaire... visuellement, musicalement...
un voyage qui me rend heureuse pour quelques minutes et dont la poésie m'émeut à chaque fois...
this video because it is for me an extraordinary journey... visually, musically...
a trip that makes me happy for a few minutes and whose poetry moves me every time...
In his full description of our Daffodil in Eden: or, A Compleat Body of Gardening (1757), John Hill (1716/7-1775) writes: 'tho' far from the most elegant of the Narcissus kind' it's valuable on account of the early season in which it grows, even in the snow of the severest Winter. Of course, when we think of Daffodils especially the 'trumpets' come to mind, as it were musically ushering in Spring. In the present Narcissus that trumpet is quite splayed outward. Still, I think it's quite pretty and elegant, too.
Gregg Stafford and Charlotte McAfee-Brunner, two horn players, few years apart in age, 1300 miles apart geographically, but on the same page musically. It was great to see the interaction, mutual respect and admiration. Gregory Stafford brought the NOLA show on the road. Fortunately, all roads lead to Toronto (contrary to the popular beliefs) and few dozen music lovers enjoyed his showmanship. The intimate confines of Grossman's provided the right atmosphere. Great sold-out night with the visiting legendary musician from New Orleans. Gregg has many friends in Toronto trad jazz community and who could, showed up. It was fun for the musicians, so double fun for the audience.
From New Orleans - Gregg Stafford, vocals and trumpet with special guest Charlotte McAfee-Brunner on trombone, Toby Hughes- saxophone, Roberta Hunt- piano, Chuck Clarke- drums, Colin Bray- bass, Brian Sasaki- banjo, Gram Whitty- bass, Miklos Lorantffy- saxophone and Joseph Trainor- piano.
340. Grossman's; 2024-May 31. P1130627; Upload 2024-Jun 24.
We had such a beautiful snowfall overnight that, for some odd reason, it made me think of Schubert's Winterreise Lieder Song Cycle. And then I felt like doing this in a Georgia O'Keeffe style. What a combination for the second day of what we're calling a New Year. I wonder what Schubert and O'Keeffe think of my pairing?!
Here's one of my favourites in the cycle sung by one of my favourite tenors, whom I've now obviously drawn into the collaboration! My mother accompanied my father for many of the Winterreise - what a duo they were musically!
A sculpture of Sir Edward Elgar in front of Hereford Cathedral, in Hereford Herefordshire.
Elgar was a composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs.
Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition.
He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere.
In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras.
Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=TduHf1tWDvIThey say he likes a good time
(My, oh my)
He comes alive at midnight
(Every night)
My mama doesn't trust him
(My, oh my)
He's only here for one thing
But (so am I)
Yeah
“i am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. i am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. anything i can not transform into something marvelous, i let go. reality doesn't impress me. i only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another. no more walls.”
~ anais nin (french born american author)
Australian Guitarist Lloyd usually performs solo, but Lisa Baird (Lily&King), a fun trombone player, came to support him musically and keep company on the long tour through Canada. I thought it was a good idea and it made the show better. Few years ago Dr.John toured with trombonist Sarah Morrow and she almost stole his show. Lisa Baird (using sometimes Lily to hide her identity) took up trombone, as an easy way to meet dysfunctional men, and she was indeed never disappointed. The last bit of info is from her bio, not the usual stuff I ad-lib.😄
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Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball~~~~~~~~~~Damien Rice
CANNONBALL <---listen here!
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Just having a little fun for the holidays. This is a total ripoff of Annette's gorgeous photo. Yes I know, she looks way better with a candy cane in her mouth then I do!
Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :-)
This weeks list of songs in Musically Challenged is from Georgie*S. They are all Holiday related, so head on over and check them out and get in the holiday spirit.
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Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Metallica
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Antoine "Tony" Petrucciani Quartet; is a French jazz guitarist and was been father of Michel Petrucciani.
Petrucciani comes from a Neapolitan family; his father was also a guitarist. Influenced by Wes Montgomery , Barney Kessel and Joe Pass , he first worked as a warehouse manager for the American Air Force at Orange and played jazz with friends after work . With his wife Anne he has three sons named Philippe (* 1957), Louis (* 1958) and Michel Petrucciani (1962–1999), all of whom he promoted musically and to whom he gave jazz lessons himself . In 1971 he founded a music store in Montélimar. Since the mid-1970s he performed with his sons in the south of France and from 1982 played several albums with them and changing line-ups. He runs a jazz school in Carnoules [1] and performs with his own quartet. [2]