That's a great soundtrack, and a great movie too. One I haven't seen for a long time, so I guess now is as good a time as any to rewatch it, thanks for the reminder!
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What are you listening to? Part III
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That's a great soundtrack, and a great movie too. One I haven't seen for a long time, so I guess now is as good a time as any to rewatch it, thanks for the reminder!
Tonight, it can only be the music of Ennio Morricone.
I have posted elsewhere that a few years ago, my brother (as a combined birthday and Christmas present) treated me to an excellent ticket to a live concert by Ennio Morricone (one of his last European tours) and his orchestra.
Wonderful.
I have posted elsewhere that a few years ago, my brother (as a combined birthday and Christmas present) treated me to an excellent ticket to a live concert by Ennio Morricone (one of his last European tours) and his orchestra.
Wonderful.
I am thinking the same thing - next movie on my list to watch again - it's a long one - LOL
edit - wow - Just purchased on Apple TV - 4 hours - that’s a long movie
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Cool 👍 - did you continue the Guitar lessons? Did you stay in love with the minor scales and keys?
I was the same - loved songs with "A" -Minor - stairway to heaven, heart of gold (Em), and my first "45" classical gas
While I still love minor scales and keys (and, recently, in a moment or two of completely fatuous fecklessness, I did find myself studying the website of Martin guitars....and not only once), the guitar lessons lie in the far dim, distant, past.
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Classical Gas 💙... I loved The Mason Williams Phonograph Record album so much. It was a great combo of silly and serious. This is one of my favorites from it:
Now for something completely different as Bill puts it.
uh Huh - Jade Bird
Love to see this Live at a bar etc.... instead of this video but .... we can only dream.
uh Huh - Jade Bird
Love to see this Live at a bar etc.... instead of this video but .... we can only dream.
Martha Argerich at age 19, Prokofiev's Toccata in D minor, Op. 11.
Ha Ha - cool song - yes that album was all over the map with styles of songs and from serious music to lighthearted playful almost joke songs - thanks for the reminder 👍
Another nice song on that album is Baroque-A-Nova in which some parts almost sound like leftovers from the developement of classical gas (also in Am?) - lol - I have seen videos of Mason Williams playing Classical Gas and he adds some parts of "Baroque-A-Nova" especially the ending
Madeline Peyroux - The Summer Wind
Gary Foster on sax in a nice solo midway through. The video has paintings by Homer Winslow and Maurice Prendergast. Perfect for a summer afternoon. From album Half the Perfect World (2006).
Gary Foster on sax in a nice solo midway through. The video has paintings by Homer Winslow and Maurice Prendergast. Perfect for a summer afternoon. From album Half the Perfect World (2006).
- 🎶Tristes a fuerza de esperar 🎵 sus ojos parecen brillar 🎶 si un tren silba a lo lejos... *while sad because of all the waiting, her eyes seem to brighten up when a train whistles in the distance...*
- Tomate esta botella conmigo... *come drink this whole bottle with me*
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Deodato - First Cuckoo - Adam's Hotel - 1975
been stuck in the 60's and early seventies this past week - maybe I need to get a head band an "tie dye" t-shirt - lol
been stuck in the 60's and early seventies this past week - maybe I need to get a head band an "tie dye" t-shirt - lol
I'll be mad if tie-die stuff comes around again in a big way; I converted a lot of it back into "fabric" for collages and etc.
70s music though never died in my house even if a lot of it doesn't make it back into play very often. I spend more time in summer sorting through not-recently-played when it gets too hot to do anything else very constructive.
I figure building new playlists must count for something. Anyway it's a nice distraction from stuff like power outages after t-storms, at least while the batteries on my gear hold up. I was just getting ready to go down that road ten minutes ago when the grid was revived. So my next 70s look might come after supper when that storm wanders back for another shot at the valley. Wow... or maybe not.. the lights just flickered. Oh well.
"Summertime, and the livin' is free of power half the day"...
= a timeless local folksong in the mountains.
Damn. I didn't even get to post this!
I hit Reply and nothin' happened, looked across the room and saw the router was dark.
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Well this time I guess it was just we got switched to a different substation. Means the one up in the boondocks got tagged again and will be out for days probably. At least they finally figured out how to keep that from affecting a couple thousand customers for very long.
So back to those playlists of oldies... or maybe I should down tools and stir fry dinner while I can?!
T-storms here tonight need a soundtrack, so setting the tone with this Oscar Peterson.
Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut.
The Italian libretto for this work was based on a French novel from 1731, which tale was deemed amoral enough back then to have been banned in France immediately upon publication. The author, Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (or more usually, the Abbé Prévost), had a Jesuit education and a checkered ecclesiastical career. He spent time abroad in both London and the Hague before writing the book and later redacted some of the plot for another edition in 1753. Some say the adventures of the novel were based in part on an unlucky love affair of Prévost himself.
The story of Manon Lescaut has been adapted many times in a number of formats and languages: operas, lyric dramas, ballets, a musical and seven films.
The tale begins in France in the early 18th century as a story of two young lovers in Paris, with Manon having escaped life in a convent, but it ends in a multifaceted, trans-Atlantic tragedy years later, in New Orleans and then further west in the near-desert frontier plains of what was then France's expansive Lousiana Territory.
The tale is perfectly suited to adaptation as an opera. For me it's suited also to my "deep dive" this summer into translation issues: what gets lost and what is universal? There are English and French versions of the novel that are free for the downloading as Project Gutenburg files; some Italian-English libretto side by side translations are also available online.
I'm having a blast and hope any neighbors passing by are also enjoying the opera, since I bothered to stick the CD into the rack system today and crank it up. Or at least I was doing that until the power outages resumed, ugh. Guess the crews are working to fix lines that went down last night in the storms. Anyway at the moment I've reverted to listening to a digital version just playing on the laptop.
Neither did I. I'm on Discogs.com now to find the album to buy. I'd long forgotten about them and need to add them to my collection. Thank for posting!
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