What music are you listening to?

Can You See the Light :)


I was never a Belushi fan, but this was one fun movie. :)

I'm sure most Sundays it isn't like this, but my dear Jamaican friend did say our Mass was really boring compared to her services. :)
 
Maria Callas - Bizet’s Carmen Habanera.

 
Undoubtedly many fortunes of some Disney feature films - at least for the successes dated especially between the 60s and 70s - were due to first-rate soundtracks. New compositions by established artists (think of Elton John for the "Lion King" in more recent times) or beautiful reinterpretations and readjustments of classic compositions. What I perhaps prefer is the famous Sleeping Beauty waltz which draws heavily on that one by Tchaikovsky :)

One of the great things about being a parent is being able to relive those great films through your children. It's a wonderful excuse to see the world through a child's eyes. Even now, on the rare occasion, long after the children are grown, my wife and I will pull out a Disney feature, Beauty & the Beast, Snow White, or Cinderella, and watch them to enjoy the incredible skill and artistry of these movies. How exciting is must have been to be the first audience to see Snow White!

Children also let us go back to Disneyland again and again. I don't like what I've heard about recent changes to the park, but in the day is was grand!
 
Callas was the best actress in opera ever, imo. Here she transforms herself into an anxious, love struck teen-ager. This aria always gets me, but never more than in this performance.

 
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Callas was the best actress in opera ever, imo. Here she transforms herself into an anxious, love struck teen-ager. This aria always gets me, but never more than in this performance.


Simply wonderful. What elegance. What a spectacular voice. These videos are a record for eternity. I was amazed.
 
Simply wonderful. What elegance. What a spectacular voice. These videos are a record for eternity. I was amazed.

It would be difficult for me to pick "a" favorite performance by Callas, but this Violetta in La Traviata is "way" up there. She pierces and then wrings the heart. Verdi and Callas were a match made in heaven.

There are English subtitles on screen.

Love is the heartbeat of the universe,
mysterious, altering,
the cross and delight of my heart.


She was American born, but her ancestry was from an area in eastern Thrace which some reports say was settled by Minoans.

House of the Ladies fresco...
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I always imagine her strong boned face as Clytemnestra, however, or Electra, or, indeed, as Medea, whom she played.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBsgtfr7Y8

Pasolini hovered over her face for seconds on end.
 
Are you in gospel music mode? :)


Rivers loom large in many religions. There are numerous mentions of the River Jordan in Gospel music.

However, whenever I hear of the rivers of Babylon I immediately think of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love". Shows where my mind's at! :) His too! Did anyone ever celebrate physical love between man and woman better than he did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I

Serendipity. This song which references the River Jordan showed up in my youtube feed. It's a fabulous song from the Appalachian mountains, home to a huge Scots/Irish migration. It appears in the new "1917" movie.


As a lover of opera who can forget "Va Pensiero"? Singing about one's nostalgia for the River Jordan while languishing in captivity near the "rivers of Babylon".

The English subtitles are on screen. It's the Muti version in "Casa Nostra". :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPANwyaSlX4
 
When Japanese play Balkan chiefteteli Gypsie Music in Greek langauge

 
Deep Purple’s Strange Kind Of Woman on Italian TV 1971

 
Wow! Where did you find that??? :)

Like the song. Also "really" like the lead singer's hair. :)

From around that time this is my favorite song. It was my bride and groom dance song at my wedding. Still LOVE it.


This was also absolutely huge: American Pie. Still listen to this one too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciM7P9K3FA&list=PL-f5sU8-_h3dEJr_G14GJGKZ9i6jAWzyR&index=3

Roberta Flack is wonderful. She's a diva. A complete artist. Your performances and recordings are a celebration of good taste. Ian Gillan is the lead singer of Deep Purple. Today he doesn't have that many hairs anymore, at the age of 74:

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Don McLean’s American Pie. Wonderful :)
 
Roberta Flack is wonderful. She's a diva. A complete artist. Your performances and recordings are a celebration of good taste. Ian Gillan is the lead singer of Deep Purple. Today he doesn't have that many hairs anymore, at the age of 74:

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Don McLean’s American Pie. Wonderful :)

Thanks, Duarte.

It was hair nostalgia. :) That was my hair for years, just darker. I loved that period for hair; just wash it and go.

Fortunately, women don't lose their hair to the extent men do, although it does get a bit thinner.

Another one I listen to all the time. I adore her and listen to her all the time. (Not Brazilian Portuguese subtitles, but I still could read 90% of it. :))

 
Moi Lolita - Alizée

 
k.d.lang is one of my favorite singers "ever". She can sing the blues as well as the greats of the past, country, pop, you name it. It's such a damn shame, in my opinion, that she hasn't had more success. I think part of it may be that people can't get over the way she presents herself.

The album Shadowland is one that I listen to all the time.

This is a blues song that she just "kills" imo.



A country one...she can put so much pain and despair in her voice no matter what she sings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uxx8DshRE8

Live, without warming up or rehearsing with the orchestra...Roy Orbison's "Crying". Such an incredible gift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-0aIHtD2Q
 

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