What are you listening to at the moment?

Baja Marimba Band "HEADS UP" vinyl album, released: 1967 (I copied it onto a CD-R for listening convenience).

Track 1 "Georgy Girl" is the most amazing version of this song I have ever heard.

Side One
1. Georgy Girl (Springfield-Dale) 2:35
2. Spanish Eyes (Burt Kaempfert) 3:00
3. Winchester Cathedral (Geoff Stephens) 2:07
4. Domingo (Mel Pollan) 2:18
5. The Odd One (Bud Coleman) 2:08
6. They Call The Wind Maria (Lerner-Lowe) 3:00

Side Two
1. Born Free (John Barry) 3:00
2. Cabeza Arriba! (Heads Up!) (Julius Wechter) 2:30
3. Temptation (Nacio Brown) 2:31
4. Baja Nova (Julius Wechter) 2:20
5. The Cry Of The Wild Goose (T. Gilkyson) 2:15

All the best,
Mike
 
For the time being, I am in love with Uzbekh and Uyghur folk music.
I love to see how the music transforms into dance through the gracious movements of the Turkmen ladies.
I am a big fan of Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks and Rachmaninoff. Go figure.
Freedom of expression of cultural and ideological diversity is our only hope to survive as a relevant species in this Universe.
 
Godfrey said:
Just had to turn on Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #9, to hear the chorale again. 😀

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The greatest music ever written. In my opinion, shared with many others who know more than I do.

I was listening to Brahms' First Symphony the other night and remembered his infamous quote. Maybe it is a fake quote, I dunno, but it's a good line none the less. When someone arrogantly told him the fourth movement of his symphony was derivative of Beethoven's Ninth, he replied "Any damn fool can see that!"
 
We all have our favorites and we want the world to feel like we do.
I have been following a female guitar player from Croatia, Ana Vidovic to grow into stardom.
Today, she is rated as the number four in the world.
She has a very special touch, her technique is difficult and only a few are pursuing the way she plays tremolo.
I like how she brings up the essential structure of the composition.
She is NOT like John Williams. She is like Ana Vidovic. How to play the classic guitar "right" and what does it mean?
Ana plays straight into my heart.
 
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Dogman said:
The greatest music ever written. In my opinion, shared with many others who know more than I do.

I was listening to Brahms' First Symphony the other night and remembered his infamous quote. Maybe it is a fake quote, I dunno, but it's a good line none the less. When someone arrogantly told him the fourth movement of his symphony was derivative of Beethoven's Ninth, he replied "Any damn fool can see that!"
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That's a great quote... who cares if it might not be 100% accurate? 😀

Ludwig fired a cannon shot to the heavens with that symphony. It never fails to make me feel uplifted. It's so tragic that he was likely stone deaf by the time it was first performed. But I think he heard it better than anyone else ever has.

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AndyCapp said:
We all have our favorites and we want the world to feel like we do.
I have been following a female guitar player from Croatia, Ana Vidovic to grow into stardom.
Today, she is rated aher tremelo.s the number four in the world.
She has a very special touch, her technique is difficult and only a few are pursuing the way she plays tremolo.
I like how she brings up the essential structure of the composition.
She is NOT like John Williams. She is like Ana Vidovic. How to play the classic guitar "right" and what does it mean?
Ana plays straight into my heart.
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I'll have to see if I can find a recording. Thank you!
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Ah, Apple Music has some of her work. It's lovely! 😀 Thank you again!

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Out to Lunch said:
It's in the air. I loved this comment on the clip:
“I like classical music, it is so calm and relaxing”
-Stravinsky: "Let me introduce myself"...
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Remember that when this piece premiered it caused a riot. The opening high-pitched bassoon set the audience off and some wound up standing on their seats smacking others on their heads. An inauspicious and raucous start. I wonder how they accepted Firebird later. More fisticuffs? LOL

It would have been great to be there with a camera. ;o)
 
Godfrey said:
That's a great quote... who cares if it might not be 100% accurate? 😀

Ludwig fired a cannon shot to the heavens with that symphony. It never fails to make me feel uplifted. It's so tragic that he was likely stone deaf by the time it was first performed. But I think he heard it better than anyone else ever has.

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When you listen to the choral movement, and realize how very high the sopranos have to sing, you realize that yes, he probably was deaf.

Every summer at the Boston Symphony's summer festival at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts, the final concert is the Beethoven 9th. Never gets old.
 
Pollini 1960, Chopin No 24 prelude. So touching, this blazing youth of 18, winning the competition, such talent, the music so tragic and affecting, the glory he gained, the life he lived, and as for all, death foretold in those three final notes.

 
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Trite but true, music is our universal language. Drop someone in a remote foreign spot with an instrument. Let him play an hour and someone will show up and start playing along. Unless the time signatures are really complex they will understand each other and do duets even though unable to communicate in any other way. And how often have we seen the videos of elephants charmed by classical piano on YT? I doubt anyone will be testing lions this way but animals are charmed by music. What is it that does this?

When I worked, back at the dawn of time, I had a very high stress job. I could come home, drop on a CD and lean back in the Eames style chair and be calmed in a moment, soothed, rested and restored. Magic, pure magic. Mysterious and enjoyable.
 
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