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What are you listening to now?

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  • HoraceH Horace

    My piano teacher Thomas Schwan is doing a small tour playing Chopin's complete nocturnes. I noticed he'll be around where a few forumites live. He's previously played the complete WTC1 and WTC2, and the houses are not always packed, as you can see from the videos. I wish I could have gone to his recital near Dallas tonight. He'll be in Chicago in November. I doubt the houses will be packed, if his WTC recitals are an indication.

    https://www.thomasschwan.com/events

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    @Horace said in What are you listening to now?:

    My piano teacher Thomas Schwan is doing a small tour playing Chopin's complete nocturnes. I noticed he'll be around where a few forumites live. He's previously played the complete WTC1 and WTC2, and the houses are not always packed, as you can see from the videos. I wish I could have gone to his recital near Dallas tonight. He'll be in Chicago in November. I doubt the houses will be packed, if his WTC recitals are an indication.

    https://www.thomasschwan.com/events

    Link to video

    Link to video

    Listening to his Bach WTC I now. Just about 5-6 minutes in and I am enjoying this immensely.

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      Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopler. Really good concert video. The did an album together - "All The Roadrunning", which is actually quite good also.

      Here is one song from the album (and concert)

      Link to video

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        They are both remarkable artists.

        Probably my favorite Knopfler/Harris collaboration.

        Not live, but, still.

        Link to video

        Harris is 77 now, and Knopfler is 75.

        Geezers.

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          They are both remarkable artists.

          Probably my favorite Knopfler/Harris collaboration.

          Not live, but, still.

          Link to video

          Harris is 77 now, and Knopfler is 75.

          Geezers.

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          @Deep-Fakes 👍 👍

          DOnt really know much about her, but she has a remarkable clear, precise voice.

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            I've always liked Mark Knopfler's guitar playing. It was such a pleasant change from all the mindless shredding that was so popular back in the 70's and 80's. And his writing is great - every song a story.

            I was only joking

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              Came across this singer and have been enjoying her - Gillian Welch

              Here are a couple of her songs. The first is not her own. It was original from a US country singer called Johnny Cash. She mostly collaborates with David Rawlings.

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              and one more

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                  Overall, this is the most brilliantly curated song list. Ever. Thanks!

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                    Free Sirius XM week, so Little Steven's Underground Garage. Best station ever.

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      @mark

                      Superlative arrangement and playing. Effortless technique.

                      Oddly I don’t see her on Qobuz although she has recorded at least one album.

                      Elbows up!

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                        Just really "found" this guy. Listening to a lot of him recently. Hadn't really heard of him before. John Prine. In a way, reminds me of Bruce Springsteen (hear me out! LOL). Neither are great singers but I think that both are very good storytellers. Have a way to convey a lot of emotion and story in 3 minutes or so.

                        Here are a couple of his songs:

                        Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

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                        You come home late and you come home early
                        You come on big when you're feeling small
                        You come home straight and you come home curly
                        Sometimes you don't come home at all

                        So what in the world's come over you?
                        And what in heaven's name have you done?
                        You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
                        You're out there running just to be on the run

                        Well, I got a heart that burns with a fever
                        And I got a worried and a jealous mind
                        How can a love that'll last forever
                        Get left so far behind

                        What in the world's come over you?
                        And what in heaven's name have you done?
                        You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
                        You're out there running just to be on the run

                        It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow
                        It's crossed the evil line today
                        Well, how can you ask about tomorrow?
                        We ain't got one word to say

                        So what in the world's come over you?
                        And what in heaven's name have you done?
                        You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
                        You're out there running just to be on the run
                        You're out there running just to be on the run
                        You're out there running just to be on the run

                        Souveniers (song begins at 1:25)

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                        All the snow has turned to water
                        Christmas days have come and gone
                        Broken toys and faded colors
                        Are all that's left to linger on
                        I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
                        For they always bring me tears
                        I can't forgive the way they rob me
                        Of my childhood souvenirs
                        Memories they can't be boughten
                        They can't be won at carnivals for free
                        Well it took me years
                        To get those souvenirs
                        And I don't know how they slipped away from me
                        Broken hearts and dirty windows
                        Make life difficult to see
                        That's why last night and this mornin'
                        Always look the same to me
                        I hate reading old love letters
                        For they always bring me tears
                        I can't forgive the way they rob me
                        Of my sweetheart's souvenirs
                        Memories they can't be boughten
                        They can't be won at carnivals for free
                        Well it took me years
                        To get those souvenirs
                        And I don't know how they slipped away from me

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                          Rita Strohl. Righteous Babe.

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                            IHT

                            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                            -Cormac McCarthy

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                              IHT

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                              @jon-nyc said in What are you listening to now?:

                              IHT

                              There's famous story about the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham saying to a female cellist, "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."

                              The old bastard would be cancelled nowadays.

                              I was only joking

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