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What are you listening to? Part III

mikzn said:
^^^^^^^^^^^

Can't wait to hear your other version - that is what is cool about classical music there are often wildly different versions of the same music - different tempos - different feeling and tones - love it 👍
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I love wildly different versions too; however, in this case, the performance is traditional. There is only one twist, as you can probably already see:

DeBussy - "Clair de Lune" by 12-year-old Umi Garrett

I wrote this in 2015: "I love how deeply she gets into her music. As soon she faces the piano you can see the look on her face transform from that of a little kid into that of someone two or three times her age. Watch her eyes. She appears to be in a trance as she plays. She is looking into some other dimension of reality. As soon as she finishes playing, the little kid in her clearly regains control.

Six viewer comments (thankfully I saved them, because the comments are now turned off):
•Wow! I have listened to many renditions of Claire de Lune in my 60-odd years, and Umi's is the most moving ever...​
•I am 77, and I have never heard that piece played better than that. Wonderful!​
•Most nuanced performance of Clare de Lune I've heard. Quite exquisite.​
•I dearly love this piece. I have never heard it played better. She puts her heart in her music.​
•From one end to the other... exquisite piano playing.​
•A very intelligent and hard-working young person can become technically perfect, like Umi. However, her beautiful maturity of interpretation, more becoming of someone thrice her age, is spine-tingling and makes you wonder if reincarnation is real.​
 
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An homage album to José Alfredo. And I already opened the tequila.

¡Salud!

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Te vas porque yo quiero… que te vayas...
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Madhatter32 said:
Tiffany Poon performing Liebestraum No. 3 by Franz Liszt. In my opinion, a masterful performance for her YouTube audience to enjoy. I can listen to it over and over.


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I woke up at about 8:40 this evening and found your post after a horrible day, due to a months'-old internal injury that makes me dreadfully sick when it's irritated (third time since June). After several hours I was finally able to lie down without making matters even worse, and I fell asleep right away under an electric blanket, much the worse for wear. Since awakening, the "illness" element seems to have passed (fingers crossed). Only that one spot still hurts. Anyway, Tiffany Poon's video was the first thing I watched after awakening. It was the perfect thing at that moment, enough so that I had to come to my iMac to type this.

I don't like most orchestral performances of classical music (there is a major exception, as I explain below), but I absolutely love that same music when it is performed by individuals or couples. Maybe it's because it is a lot more personal that way.

P.S. I accidentally included a video link from an, as yet, unpublished post in this comment. I hope I deleted it in time, but I'll bet I didn't. Dang.
 
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mikzn said:
Boléro, M. 81 - Maurice Ravel - 1928

Cool Scene on the Movie "10" - LOL

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I loved that! "Bolero" is one of the most infectiously "moving" pieces I've ever listened to. By that, I mean I can't help but move while listening to it. At least that's true of one particular performance. I always eventually, without realizing it at first, start rotating my desk chair back and forth (and sometimes in circles 😂) and tap my feet non-stop as I listen. On 12-31-2017, just five weeks after it was first uploaded, I watched that particular performance. I consider it to be the most fun, entertaining, inspiring, lively and upbeat performance of this piece ever — and, believe it or not, it's by an orchestra (see my previous comment). I would love to meet and shake the hands of every performer. That was actually the first time I had ever listened to this piece in its entirety (although I do vaguely remember it in "10" now that you mention it; ha; I watched it in the theater in late 1979 or early 1980). Now I listen to and watch that particular performance as often as I can without overdoing it. It's just a total blast. I love everything by this particular orchestra and all of the other "associated orchestras" (I'll explain that soon). I've since watched other live orchestral performances of "Bolero," but I always vastly prefer the one I've described here. Maybe it also has something to do with the excellent camera and audio work that goes into their videos. It has been my favorite YouTube channel for years. I've been planning to post their version of "Bolero" since I first found this thread, but, as usual, I will wait a while.
 
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MJWMac1988 said:
I woke up at about 8:40 this evening and found your post after a horrible day, due to a months'-old internal injury that makes me dreadfully sick when it's irritated (third time since June). After several hours I was finally able to lie down without making matters even worse, and I fell asleep right away under an electric blanket, much the worse for wear. Since awakening, the "illness" element seems to have passed (fingers crossed). Only that one spot still hurts. Anyway, Tiffany Poon's video was the first thing I watched after awakening. It was the perfect thing at that moment, enough so that I had to come to my iMac to type this.

I don't like most orchestral performances of classical music (there is a major exception, as I explain below), but I absolutely love that same music when it is performed by individuals or couples. Maybe it's because it is a lot more personal that way.

P.S. I accidentally included a video link from an, as yet, unpublished post in this comment. I hope I deleted it in time, but I'll bet I didn't. Dang.
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Wishing you a full recovery from your ailments. It is quite possible that Tiffany Poon's performances may have some physical and mental healing qualities, so I am glad you happened upon it.
 
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Madhatter32 said:
Wishing you a full recovery from your ailments. It is quite possible that Tiffany Poon's performances may have some physical and mental healing qualities, so I am glad you happened upon it.
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That's very kind of you. Thank you. I actually agree with you about the possible physical and mental healing qualities.

I have had very few ailments for the past 18 years, which has spoiled me so much that they are even more unpleasant on the rare occasions that they do occur. I've always avoided touching my face in public, and I take a lot of excellent supplements, Hawaiian astaxanthin being chief among them (it is almost to me, like spinach is to Popeye ;)).
 
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I had to google Hawaiian astaxanthin ... and I am a person who regularly visits the Islands almost every year (but sadly not this year). Sounds interesting. I'll try to learn more about it. As I get older, I appreciate the importance of good health more and more.
 
Madhatter32 said:
I had to google Hawaiian astaxanthin ... and I am a person who regularly visits the Islands almost every year (but sadly not this year). Sounds interesting. I'll try to learn more about it. As I get older, I appreciate the importance of good health more and more.
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I don't know if we are allowed to name brands and retail outlets, so I will give you clues what to look for and where to look. The brand I like most (all natural; it needs to be all natural) starts with the letter B, and the company's name starts with an N. Read the several thousand customer reviews for the 12mg version on that huge, famous online retailer whose name starts with the letter A. None of them are exaggerating. I began taking Astaxanthin in 2011. It consistently makes me feel as if I am in my 20s, physically. Within a few days of first taking it, it totally eliminated my chronic shoulder and elbow pain that had been forcing me to hold my left arm in a certain way for the past year or more while I was sitting down, and I couldn't raise one arm above shoulder height without a certain type of severe pain. It was really unpleasant and hard to describe. They have never returned. My knees and ankles also stopped hurting (after I had foolishly jogged on concrete for a couple of summers). It improved my eyesight dramatically within four days. I never sunburn anymore, even when I worked outside in the summer for six to eight hours a day for a couple of months each in 2013 and 2014. I was doing heavy physical labor, and I never got tired, even after sitting idle all winter. I used to get tired right away after a winter of sitting around. I think it helped with my allergies, too. I haven't had any since. It has helped me in other ways that I can't remember at the moment.

After my mom got out of the hospital a few years ago, she could barely walk, even with a walker, even after two months. I spent a month trying to get her to take astaxanthin, with her arguing the whole time. Finally, she listened. Within four or five days, she was walking again -- without a walker. She was too proud to admit that it was the supplement that I had pestered her to take, but I know she knew. :)
 
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MJWMac1988 said:
I don't know if we are allowed to name brands and retail outlets, so I will give you clues what to look for and where to look. The brand I like most (all natural; it needs to be all natural) starts with the letter B, and the company's name starts with an N. Read the several thousand customer reviews for the 12mg version on that huge, famous online retailer whose name starts with the letter A. None of them are exaggerating. I began taking Astaxanthin in 2011. It consistently makes me feel as if I am in my 20s, physically. Within a few days of first taking it, it totally eliminated my chronic shoulder and elbow pain that had been forcing me to hold my left arm in a certain way for the past year or more while I was sitting down, and I couldn't raise one arm above shoulder height without a certain type of severe pain. It was really unpleasant and hard to describe. They have never returned. My knees and ankles also stopped hurting (after I had foolishly jogged on concrete for a couple of summers). It improved my eyesight dramatically within four days. I never sunburn anymore, even when I worked outside in the summer for six to eight hours a day for a couple of months each in 2013 and 2014. I was doing heavy physical labor, and I never got tired, even after sitting idle all winter. I used to get tired right away after a winter of sitting around. I think it helped with my allergies, too. I haven't had any since. It has helped me in other ways that I can't remember at the moment.

After my mom got out of the hospital a few years ago, she could barely walk, even with a walker, even after two months. I spent a month trying to get her to take astaxanthin, with her arguing the whole time. Finally, she listened. Within four or five days, she was walking again -- without a walker. She was too proud to admit that it was the supplement that I had pestered her to take, but I know she knew. :)
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Excellent code -- not hard to find. Quite a testimonial. Thank you.
 
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Another Reina del Cid cover. This time she is with Toni Lindgren, Josh Turner and Carson McKee performing Harvest Moon by Neil Young. I really enjoy each of their contributions to the song as I find them all to be extremely talented people.

 
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