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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 29 Sept 2012
Our Troops Rock! | The Canteen DJ's

Posted on 09/28/2012 6:02:01 PM PDT by AZamericonnie


 

 

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The New Release Wall

Just some new stuff for you all to sample this week....enjoy!

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping one of the DJ's with your requests for the Troops.

All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
 

 







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121 posted on 09/28/2012 8:35:14 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Time Out Of Mind
~ Steely Dan ~







122 posted on 09/28/2012 8:35:38 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!

Roberta Flack~Killing Me Softly

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123 posted on 09/28/2012 8:37:26 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos)
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To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W
The term “Musical Moments” goes back to Schubert, who collected a number of short piano pieces over the years and published them as a set. In 1896, the 23 year old Sergei Rachmaninov did the same thing and published his Six Musical Moments as his Opus 16

”Andantino” is a marking that is not used all that often by composers. Schubert was fond of it, and Sergei tips his hat to the master who had been dead for 68 years. It has the bleakness of Schubert is his late works.

Rachmaninov: Andantino in B-flat minor, Op. 16/1

The second piece is a whirlwind.

Allegretto in E-flat minor, Op. 16/2

The third piece is both mystical and sad.

Andante cantabile in B minor, Op. 16/3

The fourth piece is a throwback to Chopin. Follow the score, and see just how difficult this piece really is.

This is the time to note just how large Sergei’s hands really were. I can handle the interval of a full tenth in a thumb-to-fifth-finger span, but Rachmaninov could play a full thirteenth! That six-foot-six-inch frame of his gave him some advantages.

Presto in E minor, Op. 16/4

The fifth piece is a wonderful lullaby. It’s a one handkerchief piece.

Adagio sostenuto in D-flat, Op. 16/5

The last piece is joyous and exuberant. It’s a great piece for finishing a concert.

Maestoso in C, Op. 16/6

124 posted on 09/28/2012 8:38:10 PM PDT by Publius (Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Too Much Time on My Hands
~ Styx ~







125 posted on 09/28/2012 8:38:41 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: SandRat
Sand!!


126 posted on 09/28/2012 8:39:24 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Ain't Wastin' Time No More
~ The Allman Brothers Band ~







127 posted on 09/28/2012 8:40:24 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Hands Of Time
~ Steve Wariner ~







128 posted on 09/28/2012 8:40:29 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: AZamericonnie; All
No Time
~ Black Country Communion ~







129 posted on 09/28/2012 8:40:34 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Time To Play The Game
~ Motörhead ~







130 posted on 09/28/2012 8:40:42 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: AZamericonnie; All
As Time Goes By
~ Louis Prima ~







131 posted on 09/28/2012 8:40:47 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!

Diana Krall~Temptation

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132 posted on 09/28/2012 8:42:48 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos)
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Isn't It Time
~ The Babys ~







133 posted on 09/28/2012 8:43:34 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: Kathy in Alaska; mylife; Publius; LUV W; AZamericonnie; Drumbo

Here’s a great old tune from my friend Snuffy Jackson and some talented local musicians here in Kerrville ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOWZYNk-5js&list=ULwOWZYNk-5js
Time After Time -


134 posted on 09/28/2012 8:44:42 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Time
~ Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys ~







135 posted on 09/28/2012 8:46:03 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: Liberty Valance
Here's a nice one, sort of haunting, sort of reminiscent of Tori Amos in a way.

Ingrid Michaelson - “Ghost”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfyU4Qx5vc

Her father is a composer. She took up piano at age four, continued her pursuit of music throughout her school years at various institutes in and around NYC, and began her professional career by promoting her own work on MySpace in 2002.

136 posted on 09/28/2012 8:46:15 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: AZamericonnie; All
Time Warp
~ Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack ~







137 posted on 09/28/2012 8:46:41 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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To: AZamericonnie; All
For The Longest Time
~ Billy Joel ~







138 posted on 09/28/2012 8:48:55 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw [Robert A. Heinlein])
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Music for our Troops, Veterans, and their families!!

Scorpions~Send Me An Angel

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139 posted on 09/28/2012 8:49:15 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos)
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To: AZamericonnie; ConorMacNessa; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W
Now it was time for Sergei Rachmaninov to write his first symphony, the goal of every classical composer worth his salt. Two failed first movements littered his student years. In 1895, at age 22, Sergei had finally written a symphony that he thought was ready for the world. It took him two years to find a venue, but the composer Alexander Glazunov was booked to conduct the symphony in St. Petersburg in 1897.

Glazunov is remembered today as a second rate composer and a fourth rate conductor. Like so many Russian artists, he spent much of his life at the bottom of a vodka bottle. In 1897 he weighed nearly 400 pounds. However, the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil war and famine that followed trimmed his weight to a svelte 185. Unfortunately, Glazunov was ill suited to conduct this piece.

The first performance went poorly and made the First Symphony one of music’s great shipwrecks. Sergei was horrified with what he heard. He tried to find a location in the hall where he couldn’t hear the butchering of his child. In an era before air conditioning, there were windows in concert halls that could be opened. Sergei found one and crawled out onto a fire escape to flee the disaster. He could still hear it. He closed the window. He could still hear it. Finally, he put his hands over his ears and spent the next hour outside.

The reviews the next day were devastating.

”If there had been a conservatory in hell, and if one of the students were given an assignment to compose a programmatic symphony on the theme of ‘The Seven Egyptian Plagues’, and if the student had composed a symphony somewhat similar to Rachmaninov’s symphony, he would have brilliantly fulfilled the assignment and thrilled the inhabitants of hell.” – Cesar Cui

It is only because of this famous review that Cui is remembered at all. His songs are almost forgotten, even inside Russia.

Sergei’s account of the debacle is even worse.

”The despair that filled by soul would not leave me. My dreams of a brilliant career lay shattered. My hopes and confidence were destroyed.”

The symphony lay forgotten until 1945, two years after Sergei’s death, when two professors at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, found the orchestral parts in the basement. They put the piece back together in a critical edition, and the symphony was premiered in the Soviet Union to great acclaim. It finally came to America in 1961 when Eugene Ormandy conducted the American premiere in Philadelphia. It turns out that the problem was Glazunov, not Rachmaninov. It’s a good symphony, and with the right conductor, it would have made a fine splash.

The symphony’s score begins with a quite from the Bible. “‘Vengeance is mine,’ says the Lord.” The introduction sure sounds like that! The first subject is stated on the clarinet, and it’s gorgeous. At 2:40 the second subject appears in F Major, and it’s a sinuous melody that dispels the anger. The sunburst at 4:18 is hair raising! The development at 4:57 is worked up as a fugue, and the end of the development at 6:38 is magical where he doubles the piccolo and glockenspiel. At 7:47 he recaps, and in this recording Ashkenazy just rips into that first subject! At 10:34 he works the sunburst into the second subject, and at 11:15 all hell threatens to break loose. His coda is reminiscent of Tchaikovsky.

After a first movement like that, Rachmaninov puts his dance movement, a scherzo, in second place. It’s a light footed movement, and it’s the best movement in the piece.

The third movement is one of the great slow movements of Rachmaninov.

The finale is wild and bombastic, perhaps too much so.

This is a full recording of the symphony. Pour yourself a good stiff drink, and just wallow in the music.

Rachmaninov: Symphony #1 in D minor, Op. 13

The premiere of this symphony was such a setback that Sergei could not put pen to music paper for the next two years. It was a full three years before he could write a piece in which he was confident, and this began the period of his greatest works, to include the immortal Second Piano Concerto. But to do that, he needed to go to Germany to visit a famous psychiatrist. That’s for next week.

140 posted on 09/28/2012 8:51:09 PM PDT by Publius (Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
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