Posted on 05/16/2006 5:05:31 PM PDT by gwb43_2004
NEW YORK Bono promised, and delivered, a list and description of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's ten musical favorites for the Tuesday edition of the London daily The Independent that he has guest-edited. Rice revealed herself as a huge fan of "acid rock."
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The only thing that list told me is Dr. Rice likes a lot of the same music I do...
I figured her for an Ice T fan. Shut Up, Be Happy and the Girl Tried to Kill Me seem right.
Condi likes to go to wedding receptions?
LOL! I was thinking about roller skating rinks myself!
I forgot all about that one.
She also got Hamas elected and is allowing a modern-day Nazi regime to build nuclear weapons to destroy our country while she debates at the U.N.
She is a pathetic failure as is her boss.
"She also got Hamas elected and is allowing a modern-day Nazi regime to build nuclear weapons to destroy our country while she debates at the U.N. She is a pathetic failure as is her boss."
Oh my, the DU must be dead tonite, and one of their bored trolls escaped!!!!!
By your album choice, is Rice a "crazy diamond" or are you "welcoming her to the machine?"
-PJ
Now you're talking.
Oh so correct.
oops, Bach.
Maybe wants her to Have A Cigar. ;)
For years, before LP's, #20 was known as "the" Mozart piano concerto. Many thought he had written no others. It's a bit different from his other 26 piano concertos, the vehemence almost Beethovenian in the first movement. I've tended to see it as a warmup for the Requiem.
Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat, Op. 83
The first concerto was something of a musical shipwreck and took a while to work its way into the repertory. The second is a masterpiece. However, its construction is a bit unusual. It's cast in 4 movements, rather than the traditional 3. Clara Schumann referred to it, tongue-in-cheek, as a "symphony for piano". The finale looks backward to Mozart, specifically to the #27 concerto.
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
A magnificent chamber work for piano, 2 violins, viola and cello, although the piano tends to dominate. It's an undisputed masterpiece, and I enjoy listening to it and following along with the score. The second movement is rhythmically tricky, and I have to count "one-and-two-and-three-and-" or else I get lost.
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, Op. 92
I prefer #9, but #7 is my second favorite. Roger Norrington's recording observes Beethoven's metronome markings, and the finale is absolutely hair-raising. At the posted speed, incidentally, the second movement is not a dirge; in fact, it's not really slow at all.
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
The woman is hard core. Russian opera doesn't travel well, and there are a lot of operas I'd rather listen to. She's one serious lady.
How so, I wonder? Hmmm?
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