What are you listening to now?
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Tik Tok shared this [one](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRt24oaU/ with me.
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White City is one of my favorite albums. I haven't listened to it in a while. I came across this, and I'll give it a
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“With the Germans, we risk losing our freedom…with the Russians our soul.” ~ Polish commander-in-chief, Edward Rydz-Smigly, 1939. Slava Ukraini!
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@taiwan_girl said in What are you listening to now?:
My new favorite song. Kind of makes me a bit sad however. Growing up in a rural village, the loss of family farms is happening all over, so I can relate to this song.
Link to videoDriving through the Land of Lincoln always gets me thinking
Of the flatlands where I come from and the life I left behind
The corn grew high on Grandpa's farm
Now they boarded up the barn
That way of life from long ago just withered on the vineYou can take a girl out of the heartland
But you can't take the heartland from the heart
Of a flatland girlYou can plant your dreams in God's green acre
Send 'em to Heaven in a grain elevator
But prayers don't run a tractor
or promise a summer rain
And I found out when I was young
Thet a farmеr's day is never done
And whеn the hard times hit the heartland
And I had to move awayYou can take a girl out of the heartland
But you can't take the heartland from the heart
Of a flatland girlThen one day from the Windy City
In blew a man who could talk too pretty
Had a long look and Grandpa shook
That's been five years ago
Nowadays when I'm up in the Land of Lincoln
I ask myself, "What were they thinking?"
All that's left is a photograph of the flatland fields of homeYou can take a girl out of the heartland
But you can't take the heartland from the heart
You can take a girl out of the heartland
But you can't take the heartland from the heart
Of a flatland girlAnother song by the same artist. The below song is also on her album, but the video below is a version she did with her father in their house. (BTW, she was the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association's Guitar Player of the Year award)
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Virginia Symphony Mozart Requiem
I have a few friends in the chorus and I like the Latin, so we went tonight. A nice show.
They print the words in the program(Latin and English), but it's not a sing-along
https://virginiasymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/VSO-End_of_Season_2223-Program-web.pdf
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My friends and I used to love love this song when we were younger. Kind of sad, but hearing it again brings back good memories
Rough translation:
Pieces of yellow leaves fall on the street, unbearable autumn
The story about me and him can't help me
Once I promised myself to love him till the end
Deep in love, life is like a dream, there is no reason for joy or sorrow
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
If you're my friend don't ask old wounds
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
Only you are my friend, stay with me until the end
I don't want to talk about my pain, I can't tell
A lifetime of loneliness has long been doomed, walk with me
Don't tell me to turn back in time I have no choice
Love to the depths, youth is like the wind, sit and watch people lose weight
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
If you're my friend don't ask old wounds
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
Only you are my friend, stay with me until the endFlowers drift away, water flows eastward, and people are silent since then
How much love is, how thick is love, only you know
Why bother to ask me where I'm going, wandering everywhere
Time is like wine when love is deep
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
If you're my friend don't ask old wounds
Only by fate can we meet and drink a glass of wine
Only you are my friend, stay with me until the end -
Wu Bai and China Blue are super famous in Taiwan (and in other parts of Asia). He was the first big rock star to come out of Taiwan, and he became big singing songs in Taiwanese, so kind of a "national" liking for him among the people who speak Taiwanese as their first language (like me LOL), which is more in the south than the north. He does do songs in Mandarin also.
He puts on a super good live show. This is one of his live songs.
(Side note - when President Chiang left mainland China and came to Taiwan, Taiwanese language was severely restricted for a long time - no radio/TV in the language, not allowed to teach in school (or if teachers heard you speaking it, they would knock your knuckles with a ruler), etc.)
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The D960 Sonata
Op 99 Impromptus
StändchenOK, so, at one time, I almost had the first movement of the D960 under my fingers, so I'm allowed to be critical, right?
First of all, someone, PLEASE buy this woman a metronome. When she started the first movement, I thought it was going to be slower than RIchter's recording. And, for about a minute it seems to be. And then, it's off to the races - for a while. There is absolutely no consistency of tempo anywhere in the first movement. It either plods or it rockets. And the rubato....my God, the rubato!
Almost as inconsistent as her tempo are her dynamics. Sometimes she's so loud and heavy that it's nothing more than a blur.
The second movement is taken slowly, of course, and it seems to be pretty consistent, at least.
I gave up before the third movement.
Give it a listen for about 5 minutes, if you dare.
Link to videoETA: Her tempo in the first bars is actually a bit slower than Richter (I just listened) and yet she performs the 1st movement, including repeat, about 3 minutes quicker.
Oy....
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
If alternative medicine worked, it’s just be called medicine
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@George-K said in What are you listening to now?:
The D960 Sonata
Op 99 Impromptus
StändchenOK, so, at one time, I almost had the first movement of the D960 under my fingers, so I'm allowed to be critical, right?
First of all, someone, PLEASE buy this woman a metronome. When she started the first movement, I thought it was going to be slower than RIchter's recording. And, for about a minute it seems to be. And then, it's off to the races - for a while. There is absolutely no consistency of tempo anywhere in the first movement. It either plods or it rockets. And the rubato....my God, the rubato!
Almost as inconsistent as her tempo are her dynamics. Sometimes she's so loud and heavy that it's nothing more than a blur.
The second movement is taken slowly, of course, and it seems to be pretty consistent, at least.
I gave up before the third movement.
Give it a listen for about 5 minutes, if you dare.
Link to videoThe artwork is an obvious Gregory Crewdson knockoff.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
If alternative medicine worked, it’s just be called medicine
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@George-K I heard it a while ago. It's a work that I love and have played. I loath Richter's recording, Brendel's as well. . I think she is pandering to audiences with her performance.
As for favorite recordings, my 3 recommended recordings are Chodos, the recording that Rubinstein authorized for release (a controverial opinion) and Schnabel's..
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Not a fan of Buniatishvili, although I would really like to be a fan. I think she has all it takes but somehow manages to fall short in most everything I’ve heard her play. The one caveat though, her playing of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz a few years back was not only original but damned impressive.
