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Unread 11-06-2020, 04:25 AM
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Thanks for that one, Mark

Yep, we've all become "The Indoor Type" - at least for the whole of the November lockdown. It's too cold/wet/windy most of the time for sitting in the garden anyway, so staying in is the new going out!

...and we have the Sphere, music to listen to and poems to write...

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Unread 11-06-2020, 09:55 AM
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Ann, at least Boris takes the virus seriously.

Roger, you're right about how music brings out the best, while concealing the worst, of humanity. The "Hallelujah" is a stellar version. Like the Beethoven, it will be hard to stop listening.

Once upon a time, I had a job in a small town in Germany. On my way to work in the morning, I'd often whistle the Choral Fantasy, an earworm--or, as the Germans would call it, an "ohrwurm"--that had burrowed deeply into my brain. Some of the townsfolk opened their windows to listen as I whistled by, and I have no doubt that many of them recognized the tune. Does every Irish schoolboy know his Yeats? No, at least not to the extent that the Germans know their Beethoven.

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More proof of the power of music, from Spain:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/...lez-swan-lake/

A bit of fact-checking about the ballerina's professional background in the 60s:
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/93338...but-who-is-she

The video remains as miraculous to me, regardless.
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Julie, I'm stunned every time I see the power of music in this context. I, too, care less about the accuracy of the story's protagonist and more about the fact (I want to know the science behind it) that music enthralls as is does through so much.

I'm not sure why that led me to this, but there is a connection at least in the perplexing nature of life's truths. (Three mermaids are they : )
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Aaron Copland
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

I. Slowly and expressively - Cadenza
II. Rather fast

Encore:
Göran Fröst - Klezmer Dance Nr. 3 "Let's be happy"

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi, conductor

Wiener Konzerthaus
January 16, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu1ZqTC5RIA
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That was amazing, Martin! Both the Berstein and the encore, apparently written by the soloist's brother.

The soloist is wearing a very cool jacket, too.
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Traveling Wilburys - The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Documentary
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Unread 11-14-2020, 10:39 AM
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MARVELLOUS! Thank you for posting this, Duncan. I hadn't seen it before.

Jayne
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Thanks, Jayne! It was only posted two weeks ago, so it might be new to everyone.

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As a way of combating hard times, I'm listening to a couple of great new albums: Taylor Swift, Folklore, and Amy Macdonald, The Human Demands.

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