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Sleep well Recaredo! I must have just missed you. I'm home now and resting up a bit before I start practice. I am looking forward to listening to your post shortly. You know how much I love Baroque!

I've never seen that version of "Landslide", Griffin.. really great - thanks for posting it. Terrific stuff, everyone.

Ahh....can't do Country. I have tried....really i have. 39 years and only country i have been able to enjoy is Lee Hazelwood.

We went for a drive up to the mountains today. It was 3 deg (celsius)....cold for here and for this time of year.

I enjoyed listening to Kate Bush's recent album "50 words for Snow" on the way home....twice....wife and kids were napping in the car!

I have been spinning this constantly since Christmas. It's a slow real burner. Opening track "Snowflake" sets the mood and theme for the album. It features Kate Bush's son as the snowflake, Steve Gadd on drums, and Kate's mellow piano.

It's Ok, vegasE, you and 3 million other people have just collectively sighed in relief, ha ha!

I love watching ballet...
Have a nice day, all !

(tomorrow, I may just post one of the top 10 music videos of all time and I do not believe it's been posted here yet!)
*no disrespect meant

Good morning everyone! Lots of great postings here folks! Recaredo, I loved the Locatelli violin concerto. I've never heard any of his compositions. This was a treat. As things turned out yesterday, I decided to do my piano practice before listening to your post. It was an excellent decision because I listened to it later in the evening just before going to bed. That was a perfect time. Thanks!

Elssa, the Fleetwood Mac was great. I have the album that my cousin gave to me years ago. I never get tired of hearing it.

Vegas, I really enjoyed the Kate Bush selection. I've not heard much of her music, however. She has a wonderful touch to the piano.

Okay, I'm going to shift gears here to one of my favorite jazz pianists. It would be a gross mistake, however, to put Herbie Hancock into only the category of jazz pianist. His versatility as a musician, composer, artist, arranger, blows my mind. I recently saw him on public television performing George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When he was a young man he had already made a guest solo appearance with the Chicago Symphony.

Enough of my chatter. Let's have a listen to his performance of "Watermelon Man."

Here's one more by Herbie Hancock, "Cantaloupe Island," and I am off to work. Enjoy the rest of your day!

One of my most worn out records was a 12" single of this:



I never really appreciated his work until much later.

Oh and my neighbor(an upright bass guy) saw him at Orchestra Hall here last year.

Bob

Herbie and Joni


Herbie and Stevie

LMAO oh I remember Rockit! I loved that song! I had no idea who played it though. Mr. Herbie Hancock is quite talented.

Vegas: I see why you listened to that CD over and over again! It's very relaxing. Nice background music to let yourslef wander too!

Great picks guys! and good morning!

Can't wait till Sunday to post the followings:

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I was listening to Mendelssohn's works for cello and piano yesterday. All of 'em are breathtaking! But I'm continuously listening to these two again and again and still can't meet my thirst!

Evening dudes and dudettes, heres a thought..
Nobody has mentioned this yet,

BUt what sort of music would you like to be played at your funeral? Heres hoping you dont kick the proverbial in the near future, but, just like writing a will, your choices of post mortal coil auditorial delight should be contemplated well in advance of your eventual demise...

So what will it be? will you want to be buried or incinerated to the strains of something mild and serene like a little Enya ( not enya when she was a child ,but just a small amount of enya)

Or would you like to go kicking and screaming and dragging your fingernails along the icy hardened cold earth as they try and lower your coffin prematurely into the awaiting dark hole dug in unhallowed ground?

Or have you any planned musical choices that adequately express how sorry you may be that you have grown to such a morbidly overweight individual that you have concerns all your ashes will not fit in a single urn?

And if so, what will these musical choices be that express your funerary desires and wishes for the spectators left behind in either grief and mourning or deep joy at your passing?

Hmm...

On a more serious...ahem...note...I would pick these...I'm a big fan of film sountracks and I first heard Glenn Gould as a kid watching "Slaughterhouse Five"...



Or this, one of my all time favorite soundtracks:



Bob

The entire Kid A album.

What else but this ?

All of the above plus this!

I'd say this one if I had a funeral and there better not be! A wake at the most for this girl....

This one:




With or without the segue.

Now for my wake.. heheh

KeysAngler--I agree!