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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
I've been lurking on this thread ever since Rossy started it. What an amazing array of music I've seen! I can't promise to be witty or clever— in fact I can't promise that I can even embed a video—but I'd like to join.
Here's one of my favorite singers. What a soulful voice, and that harmonica just gives me chills.
your more than welcome piRround!! The more the merrier!! Welcome and long may you post!
Zrtf90, Excellent Faure post, I am learning a piece by faure at the moment, a duet for four hands, for me and my teacher to play.. For some bizzare reason, it is not comimg easy for me, it looks simple enough, but is proving awkward!!! More practice needed. lol.
I am hoping to get more time to post some music here tommorrow!!
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
Greetings everyone! Welcome to the thread piRround (Sandy)! I enjoyed listening to Yvonne Elliman. So glad you joined in the fun of posting your favorite music.
Great postings today! Thanks Richard, Recaredo, and PPP. I will have a few postings shortly. I've had to cut back on my posting time because I am pressed for time at work, and I have to give priority to piano practice when I have free time. That's what I love about PW. Folks are supportive of piano practice as a priority!
I am so glad you said that Griffin, because I too have to work a bit hard on a piece over the next week or so... Hmmmm.
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
Hi PPP! We posted about the same time. This was one of the few TV programs I watched on our commercial channels. I loved all of the flawed characters on the Seinfeld show. Thanks!
Pianojoy, there have been a few previous locks. best to forget them. Quite often a new thread will open up to talk about it, then that gets locked. We dont have that here on RST!
night nighty everyone.. sleep well.
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
I am so glad you said that Griffin, because I too have to work a bit hard on a piece over the next week or so... Hmmmm.
Hi Rossy! I realized I was taking on too many other activities and was noticing a slight backslide with my progress on two pieces. That is unacceptable!
Anyways, that is why we are here at PW...to support each other on our piano work. I'll have one more offering shortly. I still have a little research to do for Sunday. However, I'm just about ready for the Sunday Classical postings.
I think the thread's moniker is pretty inappropriate, a sort of challenge, and intentionally so.
I'd prefer for it to get ignored than to get locked.
It just got locked, so funny! First lock on the ABF? Wonder what forum this contagious bug will travel to next...
Hi to all the new guys! (Griffin- it's almost sunday, you have to wait for your classical postings!)
Hi Piano Joy. No danger of me posting Sunday Classical on Saturday. As you know, my tastes in music are pretty eclectic. Tonight, I'm singing the blues! Well BB King and John Lee Hooker are! You would not want to hear me take on the blues! It would be a disaster!
BTW, me and the other half are enjoying a look at the night sky tonight where we are able to view Venus, Jupiter and the first quarter moon! Beautiful! Hope you can see that from where you are.
The other half is an astronomy buff, and I learn lots from his interest.
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday, or Sunday to my buddies on the other side of the Atlantic!
Griffin, ask your other half for his opinions on Niburi will you!! Planet X does it exist or not?
We have been watching venus and jupiter together in the sky here in the Uk too Griffin, really beautifull, especially so with the last full moon!!
later dudes and dudettes!!!
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 beautiful, sunny Sunday here in the Emerald Isle. Greetings to all and congrats to Alonso.
Griffin, I had another listen to Fragile this morning. The music has been going round in my head a few days now. It's so evocative. I know from experience that as a performer it's a real treat to play with musicians that you admire and occasions like this are special. I would love to have been there. It reminds me of some of the great sessions such as Carl Perkins' Silver Jubilee and Roy Orbison's Black and White Night.
I was thinking as I watched Sting that I wouldn't like his string bill, which reminded me of Dominic Frasca. And then I realised that I have fifteen guitars myself including a 12-string so my own bill's quite hefty.
Thanks, Recaredo. I'm not sure I'm ready to record just yet. I don't have the facility I had fifteen years ago and I've since developed arthritis in my right thumb. It still does all it needs to but it hurts now.
Hi piRound. I remember Yvonne's 'If I can't have you'. Wasn't she on EC's Slowhand? Most of my albums are in the attic now and all the mp3's are on my external hard drive so I don't know who's on what anymore.
Rossy, did you get that sight reading book or were you too busy with Dolly? Oh, and it's Scott Gorham not Graham (my Bill Nelson post), sorry about that!
Anyway, back to Dominic Frasca. Here's how most people are introduced to him.
Originally Posted by piano joy
it's almost sunday, you have to wait for your classical postings!
Am I missing something here? Was my Liszt posting out of order? Is it only classical on Sunday and this Frasca posting also o.o.o.?
Excellent Richard, no your not missing anything, liszt is fine anytime, and anything is fine anytime!!
meant to mention, I saw Be bop de lux many moons ago, I think it was life in the air age tour, John cooper clarke was the support act to them at the time... peoples poet.
The book I got by the way "Graded Aural tests" by Annie O Warburton. Its extremely comprehensive, but he is sending me another with particular emphasis on sight reading, I will let you know when I get it, and what it is called.
Th graded aural tests covers... pulse, accent, time. Rhythm patterns. Pitch tests: one to five single notes. Melody, Intervals, Two part tests, single chord tests, chord progressions, cadeneces, Key and modulation, tests of general musical experience and tests of general musical literacy.
There are 286 pages stuffed with musical goodness.
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
Hi Rossy, yeah, they've grown some since the stint in Clacton.
Brilliant JLH posting, Griffin!
I've just recently learnt Boom Boom on guitar. I saw Imelda May with Jeff Beck's tribute to Les Paul (impressive) and then she did a stint on Jools Holland with Johnny Got a Boom Boom. I learned that and then went on to JLH.
A good Sunday to everyone! It's bright and sunny here in Minneapolis today, and has been unseasonably warm for March! Wonderful postings Richard and Keys Angler.
Welcome to RST, Keys Angler! I enjoyed your posting, and hope you will continue to post. I had not heard the Billy Childs Trio before. I liked their rendition of Fragile.
Richard, I know what you mean about having to go back and listen to the version of Fragile I posted. I go back to it often. It is so beautiful. The first time I heard Fragile, was performed by Ruben Blades.
Richard the reference to Classical Sunday is about me. I tend to post my favorite classical music on Sunday when I have more time. No one else is compelled to do that. You can post it whenever the spirit moves you!
I'll be right back with my Sunday Classical picks.
