Originally Posted By MKB (3 FEB 2010 10:39pm)
I thought this choir was pretty neat. Crank the volume to get the early sound effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ip-N0H1Ig

Originally Posted By karla (3 FEB 2010 11:34pm)
To make things even better, it was followed by Africa , one of my favorite Toto songs. It always brings back lots of good memories.

Originally Posted By JKing (4 FEB 2010 1:43am)

Originally Posted By karla (3 FEB 2010 11:34pm)
To make things even better, it was followed by Africa , one of my favorite Toto songs. It always brings back lots of good memories.

Would I be mad to ask whether we should follow up with Europe?

I'm going to bump this back, because there's some of the links I'd like to have at hand again.  I'm glad the thread is still there!

Hooray, zombie thread rises from the grave!!! Welcome back dear threadie!  wow think back..where were you in Feb 2010?

We were all so innocent back then

Originally Posted By CrisGer

We were all so innocent back then

Yes, my halo has slipped substantially since then.

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel

Originally Posted By CrisGer

We were all so innocent back then

Yes, my halo has slipped substantially since then.

 

And now I mainly listen to the voices in my head.

The Book of Unwritten Tales soundtrack. What a treat.  

Right now, I'm listening to a lovely rendition of the "Bach/Gounod" Ave Maria masterfully played on the classical guitar by James Edwards. 

Also just listened to Saint-Saëns's cello solo, Le Cygne from his 14-movement musical suite, Le Carnaval des Animaux.  

The cello piece was featured in a short ballet called The Dying Swan (originally The Swan), choreographed by Michel Fortine as a pièce d'occasion for the great Anna Pavlova in 1905.

Cheers, Terry 

Schiller, Delerium, Enigma, Enya and some new artists similar to conjure one. Thanks to spotify, which is only just been made available in my country 

Originally Posted By Terry Penrod

 

The cello piece was featured in a short ballet called The Dying Swan (originally The Swan), choreographed by Michel Fortine as a pièce d'occasion for the great Anna Pavlova in 1905.

 

Cheers, Terry 

I love that ballet - what a pity we didn't have the cinematography back in Pavlova's day that we have now.

Just so the thread doesn't sink too far...

Toto, Toto, and Toto. I love Toto.

I can be feeling wretched, miserable and hopeless, listen to Toto and feel terrific. They just do something for me. In fact, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, they've probably saved my life a couple of times.

Over the past two days, I've listened to hundreds upon hundreds of public-domain, creative-commons and royalty-free music tracks for a feature-length lifetime tribute video about one of the original New York Photo League members. 

He was born almost exactly when the the big stock-market crash happened in 1929 and grew up during the Great Depression. So the music is an odd mix of ragtime, big-band, jazz and sentimental favorites from days gone by - along with several magnificent classical compositions for the more serious parts.

It's amazing how easy it's been to segue from Scott Joplin, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong to Mozart, Bach, Strauss, etc. and back again in a way that makes perfect sense to the story. It's even cooler that we have a huge assortment of his old New York street photos as well as those of his heroes, mentors, friends and associates like Paul Strand, Aaron Siskind, Dorothea Lange, Weegee, Alfred Steiglitz, Edward Steichen and every other big-time shutterbug back then (truly the who's who of American photography of the era). 

Cheers, Terry 

Wow, that sounds like an interesting job, Terry!

Karla, I sense a story there..

@Terry

Wow. I love that older stuff; always have. What a wonderful project.

@Trav

Well, you know me: I'm chock-full of stories. None, however, is worth mentioning here (as I make a mighty effort not to yank the thread off-topic).

Come on karla, I bet you are dying to tell..

Anyways, I started the thread, and since it's about music, I'm thinking: what could be more apt in a thread about music than music that (could possibly have) saved your life?     Boo!  What happened to our Sherlock smiley?

Please don't say "dying."

Maybe Watson took Sherlock, or Morarity could have him.

For anyone interested in the original New York Photo League, The Jewish Museum in NYC recently commemorated their related exhibit with a wonderful book titled, The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951. 

http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/photoleague 

I found out about it after beginning this rather complex video project, which will feature the photo curator from our Museum of Fine Arts here in Houston who wrote a very informative book on the subject.  

The (non-commercial documentary) biographic video will also have several on-camera interviews with the photographer himself (Martin Elkort) as well as some gallery owners and a co-founder of the new Los Angeles League of Photographers - along with many great images and songs. His stories are fascinating and in some cases, quite touching as he overcame polio and other challenges as a child before giving up his dream of following in the  footspes of giants like Atget, Cartier-Bresson, etc. to support  his family. 

What's so unique about his street photos is the positive perspective he maintained no matter how hard life got. It is so clearly reflected in his images, which is why Edward Steichen first recognized his worth by purchasing several photos for the New York Museum of Modern Art permanent collection when Martin was still just a raw beginner. 

One must wonder how far he might have taken his obvious talent had he pursued that dream past his early twenties.

Well, at least he renewed his quest some 45 years later when his grown children gave him a new digital camera for his 70th birthday. He has since taken quite a few more street photos in LA, San Francisco and Tijuana (some of them are really excellent, but many lack the depth of his trusty, old Rollieflex). Plus he has written numerous terrific articles for Rangefinder magazine and co-founded the new photo league.  He authored several books on other topics as well.

So the story as they say, has a happy ending...

Martin's initial street-photo website (too be upgraded soon), is at:  http://www.martinelkort.com 

Cheers, Terry

I really like many of Elkort's photos, Terry, especially his earlier ones.  Those in which he captures abstract designs in common objects are especially good, and the pic with the cat leaning against the little girl's back made me grin.

How often does one wish you could hear the original lineup of a favorite band again? With Howard Levy's return to progressive bluegrassers Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, I've gotten that rare chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah7nX8sRmmo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in45m_kW6Og

A couple of pastoral pieces I heard on the radio the other day that I thought were quite beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6wVZ-zaT-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llSpkFyd3g0

Zoe Keating, who does some fairly cool layered cello playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrcXX4nWOA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfdPtNf7c4Y

Lindsey Sterling, with a fun video of shadow dancing and fiddling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCsyshUU-A

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Just watched the video linked below of a once-in-a-generation audition by a pair of teenagers on Britain's Got Talent. 

The 17-year-old boy, named Jonathan Antoine, has the potential to be an international opera super star.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4 

Cheers, Terry 

That's unbelievable, Terry! Thanks so much for posting the link.

Simon Cowell is a real...er...jerk.