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  • Musical Interlude topic for January 2024

    01/01/2024 2:06:05 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | October 19, 2015 etcetera | George Gershwin et al
    Rhapsody in Blue | 17:14The Bobs - Topic | 851 subscribers | 1,957 views | October 19, 2015
  • How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song

    10/31/2023 2:56:11 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 30 replies
    The Conversation ^ | October 30, 2023 | Megan Sarno
    Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds will be Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, an organ work composed in the early 18th century. Most people today recognize it as a sonic icon of a certain type of fear: haunting and archaic, the kind of thing likely to be manufactured by someone – a ghost, perhaps – wearing a tuxedo and lurking in an abandoned...
  • Grafting Bach onto Mozart

    09/25/2023 10:51:29 AM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 11 replies
    self | 09-25-2023 | CharlesOconnell
    It seems it should be the opposite, that Mozart should be grafted onto Bach. But in this instance, I can't hear any player of the Gigue from Bach's French Suite No. 5, playing it with any vision of how it should sound, so fast that they just seem to want to get through it so their teachers, who assigned them the piece, will get off their backs. (It seems like they all hate the piece, as if they're escaping from hell while being dished out a dose of castor oil.) My vision is for the French Suite No. 5 Gigue...
  • Musical Interlude topic for September 2023 [Big Star]

    09/01/2023 7:39:47 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 86 replies
    YouTube etcetera ^ | May 8, 2020 etcetera | Big Star et al
    The official lyric video for "September Gurls," from the Big Star album "Radio City."Big Star - September Gurls (Official Lyric Video) | 2:50Big Star | 9.35K subscribers | 119,288 views | May 8, 2020
  • ASTONISHING Racialst Self-Brainwashing -- Black Prof. Blasts His Dad for Liking Bach - Brazilians Celebrate Their Black Cultural "Frederick Douglass" with Bach

    07/31/2023 10:52:48 AM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 21 replies
    self ^ | 07/31/2023 | Charles O'Connell
    An American radical, who dedicated a book to the devil, Saul Alinsky, proposed an operating principle of "rubbing grievances raw" so radical elites can gain power at people's expense. An example is an African-American Hunter College of CCNY music theory professor, Philip Ewell, who criticizes his Dad for liking the music of J.S. Bach. Music professor calls his black dad racist for liking BachMeanwhile, the nation of Brazil happily goes about celebrating with strongly Bach-flavored music, its cultural "Frederick Douglass", an early 20th century Black musical pioneer who fused the Afro-Portuguese culture of Brazil, (strongly Bach-influenced by composer Heitor Villalobos'...
  • Air A Cappella Multitrack

    04/25/2023 8:36:09 AM PDT · by NohSpinZone · 14 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan 31, 2013 | By atubevisitor
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  • Why I Love the Well-Tempered Clavier II

    02/20/2023 7:11:51 AM PST · by CharlesOConnell · 18 replies
    self | 02-20-2023 | CharlesOconnell
    Your opinion is as important as anyone's, but for your own satisfaction, you need to do some heavy lifting, to develop the self discipline of exploring works with which you may not be familiar, and broadening your horizons. Professional musicologists have no better taste than you, but they can get lost down the rabbit hole of their own studies. (Our opinions are as good as anyone else's.) You can imbibe some of the greatest music ever written, but you should seek an experienced guide–it has been my hobby for 40 years. (An academic sent me in a wrong direction, claiming...
  • J.S. Bach, “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079, orchestral arrangement, conducted by Igor Markevitch

    01/07/2023 9:47:51 PM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 7 replies
    YouTube ^ | 1/7/23
    J.S. Bach, “The Musical Offering,” BWV 1079, orchestral arrangement, conducted by Igor Markevitch
  • Music Professor Calls His Black Dad Racist for Liking Bach

    11/19/2022 11:47:01 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 47 replies
    THE COLLEGE FIX ^ | Matt Lamb
    Burning crosses on the front lawn and liking Bach are one in the same to this scholar A music theory professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York said his own father, who is black, was a white supremacist because he liked “Bach.” Professor Philip Ewell made the claims in a profile piece in the Yale Daily News. The university recently gave him its Wilbur Cross Award for “making the whiteness of music theory a topic of conversation,” the student paper reported. Ewell is so good at identifying “whiteness” and “white supremacy” that he even saw it...
  • Glenn Gould plays the Gigue of English Suite No 3 in G Minor without acting like a Mutant

    10/24/2022 12:51:17 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 11 replies
    Youtube ^ | Unknown | Glenn Gould
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIMxSVywqA
  • Musical Interlude topic for June 2022

    06/01/2022 9:31:54 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 57 replies
    YouTube ^ | various | various
    June Dance | May 27, 2021 | Julien Daian Quintet - Topic Featured Artist: Sylvain Gontard Bass Guitar: Tommaso Montagnani Drums: Octave Ducasse Flute: Cyril Benhamou Piano: Edouard Monnin Saxophone: Julien Daïan Trumpet: Alex Tassel Trumpet: Sylvain Gontard Composer: Julien Daïan
  • Musical Interlude topic for March 2022

    02/28/2022 11:17:03 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 69 replies
    YouTube etc ^ | March 2022 | varies
    Drums, Marimba, Percussion: Barrie BarlowOrchestral Arranger: Dee PalmerConductor: Dee PalmerFlute, Producer, Saxophone: Ian AndersonAcoustic Guitar: Ian AndersonLead Vocals: Ian AndersonBacking Vocals: Ian AndersonBass Guitar: Jeffrey HammondAccordion, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer: John EvanElectric Guitar: Martin BarreGuitar: Martin BarreOrchestra Leader: Patrick HallingUnknown: Robin BlackProducer: Terry EllisWriter: Ian AndersonMarch, the Mad Scientist (2002 Remaster)November 6, 2014 | Jethro Tull
  • Bach Christmas Cantatas 1-3

    12/21/2020 8:31:38 AM PST · by left that other site · 23 replies
    You Tube ^ | 12/21/20
    Bach Christmas Cantatas 1-3, over an hour of beautiful music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UjjwzJBFE
  • Benedict praises "glorious music" of Bach in festival message

    07/28/2020 11:32:31 AM PDT · by Marchmain · 15 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | July 28, 2020 | CNA
    Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has praised the “glorious music” of Johann Sebastian Bach in a message to a festival in Germany. In a statement released July 27 by the organizers of the 2021 Bach Festival in Leipzig, Benedict XVI noted that the festival would include a cycle called “Bach’s Messiah,” chronicling the life of Jesus through the composer’s music. “The particularity of this festival is that it has merged the works of Bach relating to the life and work of Jesus Christ of Nazareth into a whole, thus giving us a kind of ‘Messiah’ by Bach,” he wrote. The Bach...
  • Bachfest Leipzig streamed St. John's Passion on Good Friday (intruiging and captivating performance!)

    04/10/2020 8:08:27 PM PDT · by aspasia · 7 replies
  • Grafting Bach onto Mozart

    07/15/2019 11:08:42 PM PDT · by CharlesOConnell · 10 replies
    Freep ^ | 07/15/2019 | CharlesOconnell
    It seems it should be the opposite, that Mozart should be grafted onto Bach. But in this instance, I can’t hear any player of the Gigue from Bach’s French Suite No. 5, playing it with any vision of how it should sound, so fast that they just seem to want to get through it so their teachers, who assigned them the piece, will get off their backs. (It seems like they all hate the piece, as if they’re escaping from hell while being dished out a dose of castor oil.) My vision is for the French Suite No. 5 Gigue to...
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - The Impressionists - Bach's Goldberg Variations

    07/14/2019 11:29:49 AM PDT · by mairdie · 17 replies
    I like to take a different perspective on things as I think you learn different things from different approaches. This goes chronologically through a range of artists, so you can see what people were painting around the same time. Starts earlier than Impressionist Period and goes a bit later. Two sections - first On View; second Not On View. Artists listed at the end in their order of appearance in the video. Trevor Pinnock's Bach's Goldberg Variations - 7, 11 and 22.
  • "Ruht Wohl, Ihr Helegen Gebeine" from St John's Passion J.S. Bach

    08/10/2018 7:31:47 PM PDT · by left that other site · 31 replies
    You Tube ^ | 8/10/18
    For many years I listened to a compilation CD of Bach's Adagios and Largos (Slow Pieces), and I LOVED this 8 minute meditation from St. John's Passion. I don't speak German, and didn't have a clue what it was about, but I love the piece. This is a very nice rendition of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arrA7DBmeNI
  • Daily Mail Cats to Segovia's Classical Guitar - Bach

    03/27/2018 10:04:38 AM PDT · by mairdie · 17 replies
    Andre Segovia plays Bach's 3 Pieces from Violin Partita No 1. Hot off the video editor.
  • Culture: Conductor Jenny Wong Explores the (Spiritual) Depth of Bach

    12/08/2017 10:29:39 AM PST · by GoldenState_Rose · 39 replies
    Jenny Wong is the Associate Conductor of the LA Master Chorale. Wong says she’s excited to conduct the six motets by J.S. Bach for many reasons, not the least of which is the incredible depth of the music. “All of us, undoubtedly, who we study Bach’s music, you’re always going to leave it feeling like you can’t study it enough. There’s just so much more to get to know about it. Because Bach’s music there’s such an order to it. And yet, it’s never just because it’s academic. It’s useless to talk about Bach without talking about the reason for...