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No probs, thanks Recaredo glad to help. I am off to bed now, to sleep and hopefully have the ghost of liszt visit me in the night and help me with some things piano.
Every night when I go to sleep I ask that if liszt wants to use me as his earthbound piano slave, he can do if he teaches me what to play and how to do it...
I ask for these dreams every night, please liszts ghost do visit me.
That's a rather lisztless way to go about improving.
Working on: Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein") Chopin - Op. 9 No. 3 in B major ------------- Steingraeber B-192 Kawai CA97
Good morning everyone! Great postings yesterday. Recaredo, thanks for introducing me to the works of Kara Karayev. I had not heard of him. I really enjoyed it.
Eglantine, I'm sorry about your toothache. That is miserable. I hope you're feeling better today. Since you requested some toothache-defying entertainment yesterday, I'll offer this as my first post today by Philip Glass. it's the theme music for the film, "Koyaanisqatsi."
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Things to avoid with toothache... Not taking the foil wrapper off Kit kats properly before eating. Drawing pin sanwiches. ( thumb tacks in the usa) Hot Tea followed quickly by ice cubes.
Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley
A NOTE TO JAZZ LOVERS AND JAZZ HATERS ALIKE: Oh Yeah, I'm gonna go there today Baby!! Here is the late George Howard with "No No" from the album "A Nice Place To Be" (1986)
Things to avoid with toothache... Not taking the foil wrapper off Kit kats properly before eating. Drawing pin sanwiches. ( thumb tacks in the usa) Hot Tea followed quickly by ice cubes.
Ouch Rossy!! This hurts my tooth just to think about all of it! And I don't even have a toothache.
We must have posted at the same time. I'll PM You later!
Sorry to hear that BeccaBb, thats you and Eglantine that is suffering. Did you catch how long Eglantine has to wait for a dentist appointment? outrageous!
Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley
Good morning everyone! It's Sunday Classical Music time. My first post is the Violin Concerto K 216 by W.A. Mozart. I had the pleasure of hearing members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra perform the concerto just a few weeks ago. Here is a recording of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra performing the concerto under the direction of violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman. He was the conductor of the chamber orchestra during the 1980s. Mr Zuckerman is also the violin soloist in this three-part concerto.
Today I want to pay tribute to Marian Anderson in observance of Black History Month.
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. For me she was a role model when I was a young boy. I wrote my first book review about her biography when I was a junior high school student.
Here is some additional information from Wikipedia:
"Music critic Alan Blyth said "Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty."Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Although she was offered contracts to perform roles with many important European opera companies, Anderson declined all of these, preferring to perform in concert and recital only. She did, however, perform opera arias within her concerts and recitals. She made many recordings that reflected her broad performance repertoire of everything from concert literature to lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals.
"Anderson became an important figure in the struggle for black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid twentieth century. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall. The incident placed Anderson into the spotlight of the international community on a level unusual for a classical musician. With the aid of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. She performed before a crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions.
"Anderson continued to break barriers for black artists in the United States, becoming the first black person, American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955. Her performance as Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Met was the only time she sang an opera role on stage.
"Anderson was also an important symbol of grace and beauty during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She also worked for several years as a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and as a "goodwill ambassadress" for the United States Department of State. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991."
I have one more recording of Marian Anderson that is a fairly decent recording. Here she performs "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" an aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson and Delilah, known in English as "Softly awakes my heart", or more literally "My heart opens itself to your voice". It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she attempts to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength.
I have one more post for today. When she was a young girl in the state of Mississippi, Leontyne Price first heard Marian Anderson perform in concert. It inspired her to pursue her career as classical soprano. Here is her performance of "Pace, pace mio Dio" from Forza by Verdi.