Thanks gunga! My grandparents were german-speaking mennonite but came out of the Ukraine. when I was very little, grandmother would play guitar and sing folk music. Her guitar playing was much like the second piece you posted.
buckwheat and dwight (my mom used to dance around the kitchen singing this song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJcxtOLoXrM
and this ain't bad...grappelli and menuhin
"every note was an event"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV0IcFyXUWs&feature=related
Bernie wrote-
Quote: Are you sure we need your aesthetic coaching?
No I'm not but I'm sure you need it from somewhere.
Have you not read The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz?
My Way indeed. A scientific materialist faints away at such egotistical nonsense.
What's an "angel"?
I saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet in Glasgow when I was in my young and impressionable years, and mightily impressed I was. I liked Desmond and Morello better that Dave B too, but such good memories. I can't decide whether that piece is iconic or seminal.
But are you absolutely sure Mac that you were impressed by Dave Brubeck rather than your own sophistication at choosing to be present at such a "modern" and esoteric occasion and thus a cut above those of your contempories who's intellectual capacities were challenged by Ready, Steady, Go. and all that swampy muck-sweat The Pill brought in and which our betters thought fit to try to get back into the bottle once they had seen the Sex Pistols which, as you know, had a Jesuit trained lead-singer and a bass guitar player from before The Flood. And a mad Svengali for management.
If you followed your nose from Brubeck you should be foot-tapping all night, by now, in headphones, I presume you are married, to Debussy, Berg, Schoenberg and Webern razzamattazz.
That Blue Man Group that fm put up was derived from the Sex Pistols type of thinking.
But not to worry Mac. I was a bit like that myself once until I saw the error of my ways after eventually finding a route through a thicket of critics and other bullshitters to Subterranean Homesick Blues. Purely by accident I might say. I know why they hated Dylan and did their utmost to hide him.
Brubeck & Co are monastic. Christian obviously.
We got into the Third Dancing Craze a bit back but I think it's been brought under control. I've even seen scientists trying to do the twist. That was funny.
Europe has experienced two major dancing crazes before. 17th century period. One either side. Something to do with sexual repression it is said. They were frowned upon by the "monastics".
You can't dance to Brubeck. You can only go into a world of your own.
"Just put some bleachers out in the sun
We'll have it right up Highway 6ty- woooooooooona!"
Thanks again, gunga. How does it come to pass that you have familiarity and affinity for music from this region?
The second film coming up on your page is a piece on the making of a music video (daning with wolves). It's an interesting peak...the intital storyboarding, the onset shennanigans, rehearsals, etc. I've never worked on a music video shoot but I've gripped in some film work. Mostly boring as hell but always interesting people to work with.
Russian language is a major hobby. My main college degrees were in math but I have coursework equivalent to another bachelors in Russian, mainly from Norwich (Vt.) and the Russian School which used to be part of Norwich and was regarded as the nation's premier Russian language immersion program. I've always been fascinated by Russian music.
I can use Russian keyboards easily and recent versions of both Windows and Linux have easy facilities to switch keyboards back and forth to different language sets and it's gotten easy to do several kinds of engine searches in cyrillic.
Oy to ne vyecher (Oh what a night) is the song about Stenka Raizin's dream.
Clearly, you and i will have to talk about matters unrelated to polictics in america.
Ah Music! The Universal Language of Love (or is that Russian?)
This clip has a couple hiccups, but I thought it was worth a once through, twice.
Little Village -
She Runs Hot
blatham wrote:But I could also point out that your voice has been the only one on this thread to toss up criticism of other people's musical tastes.
Um ... James T. Kirk ... singing Sinatra ... "sullied" ... pot ... kettle ... etc.
While looking for video on Ike last night, i ran up on this-
TINA
No video to link here. Just a Ebert review, a link to order, and a recommendation.
Ebert doesn't mention the soundtrack to this brit film, but I will. It's really very good, drawing on our own music traditions and from traditions around the Baltic area. The soundtrack got a nomination at Cannes. Not only that, but the fellow who did it, Garry Bell, is one of my high school hippy buddies. It would make a wonderful christmas gift.
http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/beautifulpeople
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20000303%2FREVIEWS%2F3030302%2F1023&AID1=%2F20000303%2FREVIEWS%2F3030302%2F1023&AID2=
