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Saturday, March 24. 2018

Little Feat: Down on the Farm

h/t, Reader. Lyrics here

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Wednesday, February 28. 2018

Those teen girls are in their 70s now

Bragging about how they met Mick Jagger. Brian was the foundation. He could play anything. Best rock/pop band ever. Beatles quit rock quickly in their brilliant and short-lived career. OK, McCartney went back to rock on his own and did very well.

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Friday, January 26. 2018

"Lascia ch'io pianga"

Almirena's Aria from Handel's Opera, Rinaldo (1711). Lyrics/text here.

In Farinelli and the King on Broadway, this song is sung by a counter-tenor. In the movie Farinelli (clip below) most is sung by a counter-tenor with the high notes by a soprano and, again, the actor playing Farinelli lip-syncing.

As I said, Farinelli was the Elvis of his time.

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Monday, January 15. 2018

Sublime

The Flower Duet is probably the only piece of the 1882 opera Lakme that any of us have ever heard. Netrebko and Garanca:

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Saturday, November 25. 2017

Russian melodies

With Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvostorovsky. Great melodies. You can imagine the women getting aroused and the men hating Dmitri just for being Dmitri.

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Wednesday, October 11. 2017

You got lucky, babe

You got lucky, babe, when I found you.

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Saturday, September 2. 2017

RUSALKA (MOON SONG)

As sung by a Jersey girl. h/t Snobs Beware: I'm Cranking Carmen in My Ten-Year-Old Ford

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Sunday, August 27. 2017

5 minutes of music education

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Friday, August 18. 2017

House Music, with a question for our genius readers

In how many ways can we live, today, like kings of olden times? For one, we don't need a court orchestra to keep our ears stimulated, altho that would be pleasant for sure.

My house radio music has always been WQXR (live streamed or sometimes regular radio), but on the Cape I discovered Chatham's Cape Classical 107.5. They are at least as enjoyable as WQXR and they also live stream. OK, I do CDs also, but only radio introduces me to music I haven't heard before.

My perennial question to my readers is this: How do I get live-streamed music to go through my fancy speakers? Or is streamed music of such lousy quality that it doesn't matter?

What about a Bluetooth audio receiver? I don't know how those work.

I eagerly await suggestions.

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Thursday, July 27. 2017

Jersey Girl

Song by Tom Waits

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Monday, July 10. 2017

Hebrides Overture

It's just an overture

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Monday, July 3. 2017

Michael Roach

We posted a Michael Roach performance a couple of weeks ago. I like the sound of this band.

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Sunday, July 2. 2017

From 1959

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Thursday, June 29. 2017

Jack Bruce (1943-2014)

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Wednesday, June 28. 2017

The great Albert King: Wine and women is all that I crave

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Thursday, June 22. 2017

Jug Band Music

Kweskin has exactly the right voice, assuming that's Kweskin. But where's the jug?

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Saturday, June 3. 2017

Sexy music

From Kenny Burrell's 1963 Midnight Blue album

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Monday, May 22. 2017

Today's bit of the sublime

Va Pensiero, from Verdi's Nabucco. The singers are Hebrew slaves in Babylon. Lyrics (Italian and English) here.

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Saturday, May 20. 2017

Saturday free ad for Bob

Mr. Vanderleun found this excellent recording of the haunting anthem Not Dark Yet from Dylan's 1997 Time Out of Mind album. Was it that long ago? Sheesh, the time is runnin' away.

A commenter on Youtube:

This guy has reached me intensively in every stage of my life..Been with him since I was in hs, and now I'm a senior citizen. hearing this song as I face less than what was behind.

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Monday, May 1. 2017

Two musicians at the end of life

Elvis, 1977

Johnny Cash's last live performance

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Friday, April 14. 2017

St. John Passion

We recently heard a performance of Bach's St. John Passion, with the same small-size choir that Bach had (but with far better voices now, for sure), and with the original instruments. Bach pretty much always bitched about the lousy choirs he had to work with. Bitched about the musicians too.

Loveliest live music I have heard in a while and, even though you know the story by heart, and when Pilate asks Jesus Was ist Wahrheit? you get a chill. Pilate was a good guy, really.

Libretto with translation here. You need it without your German.

Bach wrote St. John Passion in 1774 to be performed on Good Friday. The experts say it is as close as Bach got to operatic music. It was designed as an entire Lutheran church service, with a break between Part 1 and Part 2 for a homily. Some of the choruses were familiar German hymns. It's a shame to perform it outside a church.

As with all ambitious and complex music like this, it takes me more than 3 hearings to begin to get it.

A question to which I cannot find an answer is whether Bach wrote the notes for the recitative sections, especially by Evangelist, or whether they are singer's choice. Can a reader find out?

Below, St. John Passion with a larger choir and orchestra than Bach had. Why did Gardiner use an organ instead of a harpsichord in this performance?