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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
Why thank you Wayne, by the way, do you like it? ( i do loads and loads)
I am now so totally into "steampunk" I have watched the film "The prestige" which I can so heartedly reccomend , it has David Bowie in it ( fortunately not singing his new single!) in a sort of Cameo role as Tessla!
I have watched wild wild west, I have watched the golden compass, so if anyone knows of any good steampunk films or music just let me know and I will go watch/listen...???
Answers on a postcard to RST please.
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
Thanks the the wishes and musical offerings everybody! (Especially the Solace, Richard) I had a good day
Rossy, I asked BillyO, and as I suspected, he liked it because it sounds like Siouxsie. Not as good as Siouxsie, he says, but he likes it.
I also asked him about the steam punk stuff. If you're a reader, he says to check out "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. He wasn't familiar with the music, but thinks the Sherlock Holmes movies of late have a steam punk "edge" to 'em.
Well, I'm off to enjoy my last day of freedom before the madness of two weeks of Mardi Gras with one week of Superbowl sandwiched in the middle. I would also like to thank the Atlanta Falcons for losing the playoffs so that we have no cities in the bowl within an easy day's driving distance, decreasing the amount of traffic I may check in later.
AimeeO - Yuja is terrific - her fingers fly - but there are so many awesome pianists these days - I would guess however that she probably wears a tight red dress better than most...
Good to hear Astrud again - love that music - it's been a long time - that sounds like "A Day in the Life of a Fool"???
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Frederic Chopin
Current favorite bumper sticker: Wag more, bark less.
Yes, that's what's known here as "A Day in the Life of a Fool." In Brazil it's known as "Manhã de Carnaval" (or in English, "Morning of Carnival"). It cam from the movie Black Orpheus. From what I've read, it has a lot of versions of different lyrics.
The original version sung in Portuguese version is about someone looking forward to Carnaval (which seems to be way cooler than New Orleans' Mardi Gras) and hoping to find love. I like it because it's a gorgeous song and it never seems to be played around here during Mardi Gras.
Here's Tori Amos' version:
"A Day in the Life of a Fool" is about someone wandering around hoping to run into the one who left.
Here's Frank Sinatra singing "A Day in the Life of a Fool."
I’ve realized I’ve never posted about “Zarzuelaâ€, the Spanish operetta. It was an interesting genre of music, whose origin starts in the Baroque period, but reached its major popularity along the nineteenth century. Later, along the twentieth century, this genre became revue.
Here we can listen the prelude from “La Verbena de la Paloma†(Pigeon’s fair), one of the most popular zarzuelas, composed by Tomás Bretón. This recording was directed by Ataúlfo Argenta, a great conductor who dignified this genre of music.
Morning guys and gals..... Anyone see this yesterday..... cool
Almost all audible sounds are bubble-like in nature, not wave-like, as is commonly believed. If our eyes could see music, they would be bathed in scintillating, kaleidoscope-like patterns.
The Cymascope is an instrument that makes sound, or music, visible, creating detailed 3D impressions of sound or music vibrations. Here, the rapidly expanding sphere is captured in a frozen moment. The interior reveals a beautiful and complex structure representing the rich harmonic nature of violin music. , Music made visible, can be thought of as, analogs of music, because the geometry they contain is a mathematical correlate of the musical pitches and intervals that caused the pattern to form on the Cymascope membrane.
It's a struggle at present to pull myself away from the piano. I've fallen behind on most of my pieces this week and haven't even bothered with Mendelssohn (plus I had week off from the SWW's the previous week) but by contrast I've played a wider variety of pieces than normal as I blow the dust off volumes by Clementi, CPE Bach and Scarlatti, up to the klavierstucke of Brahms.
We begin our usual foray into the world of the classical today with a beautiful piece by Carl Nielsen who wrote this overture while visiting Greece with his wife, who had interests there in the classical artwork. This, the Helios Overture, is inspired by a Greek sunrise.
The Nationalists, Grieg, Nielsen, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Russia's Mighty Handful et cetera dominated music after the Romantics and before the chromaticists.
This is the first movement of the second Symphony by Borodin, a gifted chemist and amateur musician, and is one of his most famous pieces. Its Russian character is hard to miss.
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I may check in later. 
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