I'm taking a trip with cousins. We differ on politics. I'm bringing a few cds.

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I'm supposing they have a cd player and don't understand italian. I don't much either but I've looked up some bizarro lyrics.

Still, I like travelling music, including symphonies, opera, and much else, though mostly blues.

And my first choice to bring is one almost no one here will know -
(maybe Francis and Fbaezer, and the guy from Rome whose name I'm forgetting this minute, starts with R - I'll be back with that, he's been helpful to me and I like him).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_De_André

mi innavoravo di tutto

The recording that gets me ---

coda di lupo
I could play it forever.

As I remember that first particular piece, it's flakey, as is much else, at least in translation, but de Andre had an emotional stance.

Should I do that to my cousins...
when I could give them Mendelssohn..

Given I bring this one, the others may be innocuous.

Still it's an amusing idea, talk via cds in a cramped space.

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[+3] - lmur - 10/24/2009[quote="ossobuco"] - - I had at one point a photo re his funeral - throngs. [/quote] I was sorely disappointed upon re-reading to find an "r" in that last word. Sorely.

@ossobuco,

Well, here's a still video re Coda di Lupo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMnGdZ5dDQ

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@ossobuco,

Other songs vary.

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@ossobuco,

So, from the response so far, I go with Mendelssohn...

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@ossobuco,

Anything would be good, so long as it's in a language they don't understand.

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@roger,

They might have some german vocabulary...

I think myself that de Andre is wrong for this situation. though he slows down and gets attentive in later tracts. (His voice gets me, not so obvious on that video - never mind politics). I can give them Puccini and Verdi (they like classical music, go to concerts)...

We'll see. I'll check some of my cds. Gawd knows what they actually like.

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@ossobuco,

I'll back off, as I'd like de Andre on the road, depending on the road, but I'm odd. I like a lot of italian music. I don't want to excruciate my cousins.
Much.

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@ossobuco,

The simple truth is, most people don't like other people's music.

When do you leave, by the way?

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@roger,

Thinking... the 29th.

I agree with you on that, about other people's music.

Hey, if you want to come and meet them, maybe. I don't want to be neg, they are people who mean a lot to me, however I snotpost - we have history in that cousin husband was a john birtcher. And, worse, I like this man.

But I'm not sure how it could work, re connecting, as there is this schedule.

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@roger,

Damn, Roger, I don't know. If you got here, we could do this stuff together. The atomic museum is first on the list for Monday. It was my idea, but they really liked it.

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@ossobuco,

Quote:

Well, here's a still video re Coda di Lupo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMnGdZ5dDQ

Nice, osso.

I like it.

If I was taking the trip with you I'd be perfectly happy if you played this a few times. Smile

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@ossobuco,

I'm not sure I promote your drive to here, my cousins have a schedule, including madrid, taos, santa fe, and so on.
A single lunch, I'd be all for it.

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@msolga,

Thanks, msolga.

He was a problematic person but I liked him. And so did many other people.

Long lost on my saved photos or article that crashed was a piece on the funeral of de Andre. Anyway, people liked him.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

The simple truth is, most people don't like other people's music.

That 's astutely n sapiently insightful.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Roger's a keeper. We beg to differ on occasion.

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@ossobuco,

Sounds good, but when I will be in Albuquerque is kind of up in the air, right now. So complicated, I better PM.

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@ossobuco,

This is the first I've heard of him (from you), osso. And I do like that song. It might sooth your cousins & they might refrain from sharing their political views with you, you never know! Smile

Are you a wee bit apprehensive about this trip?

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Thinking... the 29th.

I agree with you on that, about other people's music.

Hey, if you want to come and meet them, maybe.
I don't want to be neg, they are people who mean a lot to me,
however I snotpost [ ?? ] - we have history in that cousin husband was a john birtcher.
And, worse, I like this man.

But I'm not sure how it could work, re connecting,
as there is this schedule.

I never actually JOINED the John Birch Society,
tho I had friends in it and I was very much in sympathy with it,
during the Third World War, but I loved arguing politics.
I started spouting when I was 13 and have never shut up since.

Its FUN, tho admittedly: that is according to taste.

David

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@roger,

Quote:

The simple truth is, most people don't like other people's music.

But this is not always the case!

For example, I just enjoyed osso's music. Very Happy

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The John Birch Society had exactly ONE single, individual issue, to wit:
communist imperialism.

Like the fascists and the nazis: the commies have collapsed and ended.

That 's over now.

There is nothing left to say on that point.

David

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