FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 30 April 2016

Our Troops Rock!!!! | Canteen DJ's

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Ironically, my Dad’s younger sister married a man from Oklahoma who was also Indian, and he was able to trace his ancestry back to the Trail of Tears.

And I married a Russian Jew who was able to trace HIS family to an expulsion from a little town near Kiev.

A whole family of outcasts! :-)

[Publius]

My mother’s side was expelled from Spain during the Inquisition and went to Naples. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

[Publius]

WHEN 4 IS A PRIME NUMBER

BARTOK: QUARTET #4 iN C, SZ. 91, ALLEGRO PIZZICATO

The string quartets of the 20th Century were heavily influenced by the bloodletting of World War I and the nihilism that followed. Music would never be the same. Bela Bartok’s quartets are among the best of this dissonant collection.

Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly (ko-DYE-ee) would walk into Hungarian farming villages with a primitive Edison wax cylinder recorder to capture the sounds of ancient Magyar folk tunes before the new century could sweep them away. “Sing into the chicken paprikash,” one of them would say, as he hid the machine on the table among the food. The quartets of both men are filled with Hungarian folk music.

This is from the fourth of Bartok’s quartets and features pizzicato playing, which is plucking the strings.

Bartok: Quartet #4 in C, Sz. 91, fourth movement

[luvie]

RANDOM TUNES ON THE PASSING SCENE....

Jeff Golub/Avenue Blue~Naked City

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Nice!

[luvie]

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Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers~Swing Another Mood

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[Publius]

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SHOSTAKOVICH: QUARTET #14 IN F#, OP. 142, ALLEGRETTO

Dmitri had his issues with Soviet censors and culture commissars, and he died from his four pack-a-day habit at age 69, only sixteen years before the Soviet Union collapsed. He missed a wonderful moment.

This is the first movement of his next to last quartet, written in 1973. He uses a dissonant musical vocabulary, but it makes musical sense.

Shostakovich: Quartet #14 in F#, Op. 142, first movement

[luvie]

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Josh Groban~All'improvviso Amorè

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Kid Rock~Only God Knows Why

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Koop~The Moonbounce

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BARBER: QUARTET IN B MINOR, OP. 11, MOLTO ALLEGRO E APPASSIONATO

This quartet dates from 1935, when Samuel Barber was just starting out. He came from an operatic family and had a fine baritone singing voice.

This is the first movement, which combines a sense of Schubert with Wagner and displays Barber’s musical sensibility, which is a bit dissonant at times, but ultimately Romantic. The second subject is gorgeous.

Barber: Quartet in B minor, Op. 11, first movement

[luvie]

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Little River Band~Cool Change

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Mac Davis~One Hell Of A Woman

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[luvie]

Heck, they might be kin! :)

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Nils~Jump Start

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BARBER: QUARTET IN B MINOR, OP. 11, ADAGIO

This is one of the most famous pieces by an American composer. In 1936, Arturo Toscanini orchestrated it, and it became an immediate hit, usually reserved for grave occasions of state. Both “The Elephant Man” and “Platoon” used it in their soundtracks.

This is the original version, and it is amazingly intense, worthy of three or four handkerchiefs.

Barber: Quartet in B minor, Op. 11, second movement

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Norah Jones~Come Away With Me

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Paul Hardcastle~Apache Warrior

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Publius, and thank you for sharing the quartets. ((HUGS))

I’m enjoying Tchaikovsky now.

[luvie]

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Pieces Of A Dream~Turning It Up

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