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| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @richardbrand, @toddalin I liked Peter Grimes when I saw the opera, but it isn't an opera I'd play at home. I'm probably not a full-on opera buff. I play Puccini's beautiful melodies and some Mozart operas at home. Also a bit of Verdi. @mahgist... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @asvjerry, @johnnotkathi, @simonmoon Okay this old guy will listen to some early Riverside tomorrow. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk, @mahgister Here is a video of Jesse Fuller singing "San Frencisco Bay Blues." I heard him live at Berkeley, just across the Bay from San Francisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBME_J0pf3o And here is the great Otis Redding, who d... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I like Rev. Davis. As I've said, I was lucky enough to go to U.C. Berkeley in the 60s when all manner of musician and other artists were around. I heard blues on record players and live from real blues players. I had musician friends ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Here's a spiritual I bet none of you have ever heard. I first heard it in 1970 and immediately went out and bought the record. This was the only good song on the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sWkK06LSq4 | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister, @frogman, @hilde45 I will give a more generous interpretation of @hilde45 comment about fascism. Being the stepson of an AFLCIO worker, I used to go to union picnics and sit at Pete Seager's feet as he sang Woody Guthrie's "This Lan... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries Don't want to get in a political dispute. I did, however, read a book on fascism a few years ago by Madeline Albright, and she defines it. I also read the "Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt and she does a good job of describing it in mu... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries I am going to post a poem below about music in general and specifically about jazz. I think that my poetry might be more difficult to understand than I thought, so below the poem, I will take you through it and help you understand it. What the po... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman For me, music is spiritualism. Good music. Felt music. In Bach's Mass in B Minor he treats the music as spiritual. It comes from a place that is beyond Jesus and Dogma. A place that has existed in humanity since we became humanity. As o... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister What you said about appreciating music is how I feel. I did try Haydn's "Creation" Oaratorio. I just don't like Oratorios. I don't like the way the music becomes background for the singers to give Christian doctrine. I am listening t... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @toddalin Okay, got you. I don't care if I understand all the words. I'm more into feeling the voice as part of the music. And I guess I'm into breathy female vocalists, if I think about it. Just a matter of taste. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @toddalin Sorry, which singer did you think was difficult to understand? I don't know which post you're referring to. Thanks. | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk Can you name a few poet laureats or any famous poets who you don't think are difficult to understand? I need to know what you're talking about. Thanks. And, do you think the poems I've posted are difficult to understand? Do you think S... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk In regards to poetry being upfront with its meaning, I think that is not poetry. It's an essay or something else. Poetry, like jazz, must light a spark between listener (& reader) who must give something of themselves. But it's not ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk Bream plays those pieces with more emotion than anyone else I’ve heard, including John Williams and Pepe Romero. So, if it’s emotion you’re looking for in classical music, you might start with Wagner. Not his operas themselves, but th... |