http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/music/ en-us Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:31:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415022/posts My favorite Christmas song is "O Holy Night" -- no surprise, as "Night" is named as favorite more often than any other Christmas composition. The song began its existence as "Cantique de Noël" in 1847 and was restated in English soon thereafter. According to legend, "O Holy Night" was the first music broadcast on radio, in 1906. First up: The incomparable Enrico Caruso, in the original French, recorded in 1916. Backcountry Notes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415022/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:31:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414800/posts Iced Earth mainman Jon Schaffer has announced a new project/solo album that he’s been working on the last several months called Sons of Liberty, which he will be unveiling and talking about this Friday (December 18) on the Alex Jones show. Schaffer will be in the studio with Alex on Friday December 18th at 2pm CST. The show is broadcast from 11am to 3pm CST to over 80 stations nation wide. To find a station near you, check here or stream it LIVE for free from Infowars.com. Prison Planet members can watch the interview from PrisonPlanet.TV. On Friday, December 18th,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414800/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:08:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414770/posts Stefan KanferAll That Jazz Terry Teachout’s luminous biography captures the “sunlit, hopeful art” of Louis Armstrong. 22 December 2009 Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, by Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 474 pages, $30) In the spring of 1998, Time commissioned Al Hirschfeld, the doyen of American caricaturists, to draw an unusual cover. It would celebrate five outstanding “Artists and Entertainers of the Century”—Pablo Picasso, Lucille Ball, Charlie Chaplin, Steven Spielberg, and Louis Armstrong. Much fanfare accompanied the announcement. That illustration was never published. A handful of staffers condemned the portrait of Armstrong as racist and made their feelings... City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414770/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414157/posts ~Favorite School Song~ ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL - 15/12/1979 5 weeks at #1 - 12 weeks on chart We don't need no education We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher leave them kids alone Hey, Teacher, Leave them kids alone All in all it's just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall We don't need no education We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave those kids alone Hey, Teacher, Leave those kids alone All in all you're... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414157/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414109/posts YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414109/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:35:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414090/posts Guy has a pretty darn good collection and looks to be a good shot! You tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414090/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412191/posts Nat King Cole Christmas Music Videos. Christmas Song, O Tannenbaum, Little Town of Bethlehem, O Holy Night. Backcountry Notes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412191/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411547/posts Celtic Woman / Chloe Agnew - "O Holy Night" YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411547/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411244/posts Rock-music lore is rife with stories of bands sealing themselves up in an expensive commercial recording studio for days, weeks, or months, refusing to reenter civilian life until armed with a masterpiece destined to be heard for generations. Today, that scenario sounds more like an ancient fable. Major recording centers such as London; Los Angeles; New York; and Nashville, Tenn., are losing the studios that made them famous due to shrinking budgets at the big labels and the growing sophistication of home-
recording technology. Now musicians can plug directly into their laptops and record digitally with greater ease than ever. Software... Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411244/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:37:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410656/posts Yesterday YouTube opened to the public their newest Beta, the YouTube "Feather" service. Feather is a slightly stripped down version of YouTube for those who have low bandwidth and/ or connection issues. Feather stills gives you the YouTube "experience", that is, you can still watch and listen to all of the same videos. The difference is that HQ/HD won't be available, and comments and other "fluff stuff" are limited or removed. The loading and playing of the videos is faster and smoother, I can attest to that. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410656/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408900/posts Piano Wreckage at Ithaca College Bethany Stotts, December 16, 2009 The Ithacan Online reported on Monday that person(s) had vandalized more than 60 pianos in college’s practice rooms over the weekend. And this wasn’t just scratches, it was violent vandalism: More than 60 pianos were damaged Saturday night in the first floor practice rooms in the Whalen School of Music… Sophomore Andrew Thomson, a composition and instrumental major, said he went into the first floor of the Whalen Center to retrieve some equipment and found damaged equipment in all of the practice rooms. “Two or three [pianos] were flipped completely... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408900/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407649/posts Soundtrack albums are the hidden pleasures of pop. Composed and performed to accompany moving images, they're emotional enhancers. This dramatic quality, coupled with the depth of sound-field in full cinema reproduction, ensures that many soundtracks stand apart from their parent films as a listening experience. Guardian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407649/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407439/posts Here we go...another year end list. Lambchop Billy Joe Shaver Jon Langford/Pine Valley Cosmonauts Bad Livers Peter Holsapple/Chris Stamey Buddy Miller (with Robert Plant guesting on several songs)Okkervil River Steve Martin and the Stone Canyon Rangers (yes, that Steve Martin)Marshall CrenshawRosie Flores http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407439/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406265/posts With Christmas less than 2 weeks away I thought it would be nice for us to share our favorite performance of Christmas songs. This is one my mine, Charlotte Church singing Oh Come,All Ye Faithful. I highly recommend her Christmas album, "Dream A Dream" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4H2DswtluM&feature=related http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406265/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:14:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405736/posts For Garth Brooks, Retirement Ends Friday Night Garth Brooks officially emerges from retirement Friday night. LAS VEGAS (December 11, 2009)--Garth Brooks' retirement ends when he sings his first note Friday night at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. It’s the first of a handful of weekends that he'll be performing each year for as many as five years. The weekends are selected based on his three daughters' school and sports schedules. Brooks says these acoustic shows will be different each night. Sometimes he'll have guest performers with him, including his wife, Trisha Yearwood and sometimes it will be... KWTX TV Waco http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405736/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:23:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404750/posts They came, they conquered... they were never heard from again. After reaching the Hot 100's Top 10 with their very first singles, none of these acts managed to crack the Top 25 for the rest of the decade. But hey, four minutes of fame is better than nothing. The one-hitmakers on this list have been ranked by how high their big song climbed on the chart compared to how far down the tally their subsequent highest-charting effort peaked. NEW YORK (Billboard) – They came, they conquered ... they were never heard from again. After reaching the Hot 100's Top 10... Billboard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404750/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401891/posts Benedictus XVIJoseph Ratzinger  Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - The Musical Offering in MP3 The Musical Offering A selection of sacred and classical music in Mp3 played by teachers and students of Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music The Holy See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401891/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:58:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400903/posts Two years ago, the USCCB released a document of revised guidelines for liturgical music titled "Sing to the Mountains" -- er, "Lord." In its 88 mostly tepid pages are found a meditation on the scriptural and theological foundations for the use of music in worship, notes particular to the celebration of special rites within the Mass, and handy tips for ordained and lay liturgical ministers, such as the suggestion that cantors "possess the ability for singing and a facility in correct pronunciation and diction."   And, as with so many products of committee, its prescriptions perform a two-step waltz:... Inside Catholic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400903/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399427/posts Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering and recording rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87. Keane, who survived non- Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosed when he was 80, died of renal failure Saturday in an assisted living home in Hollywood, said his son, Tom Keane. "He was like the original independent record man in those days," said Tom Keane, a songwriter and record producer. "He was the guy going out and finding talent and developing it and getting it out to the masses." A clarinet player... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399427/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398576/posts Every Christmas season, which in our home begins around the second week of November, I am on a mission. My goal: find one new CD and one new Christmas movie to add to our growing collection. The movie gets rotated in with about a dozen or so other favorites while the CD takes front and center stage. Whatever this CD is, it is played so constantly throughout the next 6 weeks that it must, by nature of its place in our routine, be extraordinary. I don’t give this spot to just any artist; but, rather, I spend time searching... Catholic Exchange http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2398576/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398120/posts A few months ago one of my Aunts passed away and I drove up to Jersey for the funeral service. At the lunch afterward one of my cousins was kind enough to give my brother and me a mix of some some CD's he had burned. They were a compilation of the best of Stiff Records - a bunch of punk / new wave / underground music from the 70's. It featured bands like Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Devo, and Elvis Costello. Everybody has a favorite era in music - it usually coincides with when you come of age.... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398120/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 02:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397735/posts What could bring record producers, famous for working on music by Elton John, Blondie and Dolly Parton, together with Pope Benedict XVI and the former choir master of St. Peter’s Basilica? The answer is “Alma Mater,” a new CD from Decca released worldwide Nov. 28. The album features nearly 10 minutes of recordings of the Pope alongside eight tracks of Lauretan Litanies, Marian popular chants and modern classical music. Each track ends with Gregorian chant sung by the Philharmonic Academy of Rome Choir and conducted by Msgr. Pablo Colino, the former chapel master of St. Peter’s.For 26 years, the Spanish priest was... NC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2397735/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:59:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396447/posts My thoughts tend to wander in church. The lector might open with a biblical passage describing the Israelites assailing Jericho. I’ll picture myself inside the city, as a trader bartering in the ancient streets. This, in turn, will cause me to wonder how people got along in those days without air conditioning. So it was that, waiting for Mass to begin one recent Saturday evening, I was unruffled by the sweet, dark strains of “Night and Day.” “It’s just me,” I thought. “Just my wayward imagination.” It was with a jolt that I realized, “No, it’s not just me.” Someone... NC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396447/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:36:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393654/posts Bob Dylan has at various times revolutionized folk, rock, country and gospel music. However, any Dylan fan who says he was not surprised that Bob has released an album of traditional Christmas songs is pulling your leg. Christmas In The Heart is another surprising move by an artist famous for surprises. Yet when you hear Dylan’s direct and obviously sincere readings of “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Little Town Of Bethlehem,” and “The First Noel,” this unlikely exercise seems of a piece with the rest of Dylan’s work. From the very first, this was an artist who made us look... SNS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393654/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:29:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392233/posts Kansas City, Mo., Nov 21, 2009 / 02:14 pm (CNA).- A community of Benedictine sisters living in the Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph have released a Christmas CD titled “Christmas at Ephesus.” Proceeds from their new CD, comprised of traditional carols as well as the sisters' compositions, will go toward the building of a new monastery. The Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles are still new to the Kansas City Catholic community, invited by Bishop Robert W. Finn in 2006. A traditional monastic community of women who desire to emulate the Blessed Virgin Mary by living in quiet... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2392233/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:07:22 GMT