Ah, hbg, both Rockwell and Beverly know how to do an operatic performance. Loved them both, Canada.
It's quite still and dark here, folks, but I can feel the light of an unseen moon when I listen to Debussy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPBtZ0Zzok&feature=related
thanks for giving us debussy , letty - wonderful !!!
here's something different , also "classic" but ... :wink:
german hits (schlager) of the fifties (i remember them well
) - probably recorded in the sixties and seventies , judging by the clothes being worn .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCQlSwZknw0
st paddy's day is coming
here's something to get your spirits up
The Clancy Brothers - Johnson's Motor car
in case you are wondering ... it's the BIG BAND of the german army (bundeswehr) ; they visited here some years ago and brought the house down at queen's university - some fine jazz and rock !
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FhCah5zfQvc
You know, folks, there is nothing greater than to see and hear a German turned Canuck, and a Canuck turned Irish.
hbg, loved your fifties song and The Big Band as well.
dj, I do believed your Clancy Brothers lowered the boom, and the parody on Galway Bay was really good, buddy.
Now here is something new, too, but first a little background on the one we are about to hear.
Scots-Irish is a term used to describe inhabitants of the United States and, by some, of Canada who are of Ulster Scottish descent. The term is typically qualified with American (or Canadian) as in "Scots-Irish American" or "American of Scots-Irish ancestry". Immigrants from Northern Ireland however typically refer to themselves as "Northern Irish (American)", and to a lesser extent "Ulster-Scottish (American)" as the province of Ulster split by the 1921 partition that sees six of its counties in N.I. and three in the Republic of Ireland, no longer has any legal status.
Now let's listen to a Jewish princess sing a beautiful medley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCsWUEzaHWA&feature=related
I did have to smile when Babs gave her backup hell for being slow on the pick up.
Well, it's time for your PD to say goodnight, and I can't think of a better way than with this lovely acoustic guitarist playing Stairway to the Stars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGhJSopB_8
Goodnight star and moon gazers
From Letty with love
Eddy Veder (sp?)
at the Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYt4EC-E4So
wanted to play a beautiful song by the great IZ (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7cAbHGZ6F8M&feature=related
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
M.D. Welcome back, big island man. That was a solemn song by the great IZ, but beautiful and informative. Thank you for the reminder of Hawaii and its history.
edgar, both the tribute and the anniversary songs were worth the listen, Texas. Thanks again for your musical treat.
Speaking of anniversaries, folks, here's a rather sad one for Brian Jones whose birthday is today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeLeaul0zQ&feature=related
Vincente Minnelli
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Lester Anthony Minnelli
February 28, 1903
Delaware, Ohio
Died July 25, 1986 (aged 83)
Beverly Hills, California
Spouse(s) Judy Garland (1945-1951)
Georgette Magnani (1954-1957)
Denise Minnelli (1962-1971)
Lee Anderson (1980-1986)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Director
1958 Gigi
Golden Globe Awards
Best Director - Motion Picture
1959 Gigi
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 - July 25, 1986) was a famous Academy Award-winning Hollywood director and accomplished stage director, often considered by critics to be the father of the modern musical. With then-wife Judy Garland he was the father of Liza Minnelli.
Biography
Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Delaware, Ohio, United States, Minnelli was the youngest surviving child of Mina Mary LaLouette Le Beau and Vincent Charles Minnelli. His father was musical conductor of Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Minnelli's Chicago-born mother was of French Canadian descent, while his grandparents were of Sicilian and Scottish descent.
With his background in theatre, Minnelli was known as an auteur who always brought his stage experience to his films. The first movie that he directed, Cabin in the Sky (1943), was visibly influenced by the theater. Shortly after that, he directed Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), during which he befriended the film's star, Judy Garland, although it is probable the two had met casually in 1938 when Minnelli did uncredited set designing for The Wizard of Oz, most notably the opulent Emerald City. The two then began a courtship that eventually led to their marriage the following year. Their one child together, Liza Minnelli, grew up to become an Academy Award-winning singer and actress.
Though widely known for directing musicals, including An American in Paris (1951), Brigadoon (1954), Kismet (1955), and Gigi (1958) he also helmed comedies and melodramas, including Madame Bovary (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Designing Woman (1957) and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). His last film was A Matter of Time (1976). He received an Oscar nomination as Best Director for An American in Paris (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar for Gigi (1958). He was awarded France's highest civilian honor, the Commander Nationale of the Legion of Honor, only weeks before his death in 1986.
Minnelli's critical reputation has known a certain amount of fluctuation, being admired (or dismissed) in America as a "pure stylist" who, in Andrew Sarris' words, "believes more in beauty than in art". His work reached a height of critical attention during the late 50s and early 60s in France with extensive studies in the Cahiers du Cinéma magazine, especially in the articles by Jean Douchet and Jean Domarchi, who saw in him a cinematic visionary obsessed with beauty and harmony, and an artist who could give substance to the world of dreams. However, Minnelli's films are today considered some of the finest of the 20th century, being a part of the great era of the M-G-M musical. A celebration of his work and that of many other talents appeared in That's Entertainment!, which showed clips from many of his films.
He died at the age of 83 from Alzheimer's disease, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Burbank, California. He is survived by his British-born wife Lee Anderson Minnelli (born c. 1907). His widow sued Minnelli's daughter Liza over a controversy relating to Liza declining to pay the bills on her Beverly Hills home which Liza (allegedly under the influence of her then husband David Gest) wished to sell, in order to move her stepmother into alternative, cheaper, accommodation. Lee eventually dropped the lawsuit.
Relationships
His marriages ran as follows:
Judy Garland (15 June 1945 - 1951) (divorced) 1 child, Liza Minnelli born 1946
Georgette Magnani (February 1954 - 1957) 1 child, Christiana Nina Minnelli born 1955
Denise Minnelli (1962 - August 1971) (divorced) later married Prentis Cobb Hale
Lee Anderson (April 1980 - 25 July 1986) (his death)
Trivia
Named his daughter Liza Minnelli after the Gershwin song "Liza." He had directed the number for Ziegfeld Follies (1946), but it was cut from the final version of the film.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Triumphant Faith Terraces area.
Father-in-law of Jack Haley Jr.
Inventor of the "Crab Dolly", a camera dolly on wheels that can move the camera in any direction.
Insisted on using a shade of yellow in the design of his sets that had to be specially mixed. MGM painters began calling it "Minnelli Yellow."
When he was signed to MGM, he was allowed to apprentice for a year on the lot. By the time he started directing, he knew every department at the studio.
Was voted the 20th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
His widow, Lee Anderson, was his companion for a long time before their 1980 marriage.
Directed 7 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won Oscar for their performances in one of Minnelli's movies.
Is portrayed by Hugh Laurie in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) (TV)
According to movie Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Garland and Minnelli's marriage finally ended when Judy caught him in bed with another man. Minnelli was said to be bisexual
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967
