FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 16 June 2012

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Tunes For The Troops
 

 
Canteen radio tonight....& it's commercial free!!! ;-)

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops.

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Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

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our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
 

 

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[SandRat]

Ever notice, the older we get
the more we're like computers?
We start out with lots of
memory and drive, then we
become outdated, "CRASH" at
odd moments, and eventually
have to get our parts replaced.

LOL

[Drumbo]

Kansas City
~ Wilbert Harrison ~

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[AZamericonnie]

Thank you Mayor for our daily bread....it really does always uplift me. You are appreciated! *Hugs*

[luvie]

ROAD TRIP!!

Accoustic Alchemy~Same Road, Same Reason

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[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS!

Danny Boy - Frank Patterson

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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann went on the road, Clara playing the piano concerto with Jo on the podium. She also performed the Handel Variations, wowing audiences. Jo’s social skills were terrible, and he managed not to say anything positive to Clara about the concerts. Clara began to despair about this man. You never knew where you stood with him.

Brahms had written the Quartet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 26, and that piece began to draw attention. This is an uneven work, with a weak finale where the seams show.

The first movement opens with a short motif that fans of Melody Gardot will recognize as having been extracted by her for one of her songs. Rather than explain it, I recommend just laying back and following Brahms’ musical thought. It’s all so clear, and it’s a good exercise for the listener.

Brahms: Quartet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 26, first movement

One night at the home of the Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, I had a chat with the musicians over food and drink about the great “slow” movements of Brahms. This one came up as one of the very best, and it’s a two handkerchief piece. Brahms specifies mutes for the strings to get that silky, moonlit sound. The first theme in E Major is sheer beauty. At 1:15 there is the four note motif on the cello followed by bass arpeggios in the piano. There are monsters in those depths! The E Major theme returns. At 3:37 the middle subject in F# minor appears as a cry from the heart, and it progresses into F# Major. At 6:35 the first subject recurs; the middle subject at 8:35. At 9:47 the E Major theme returns with the violin singing around the theme, which is stated on the cello. The coda at 10:50 puts the major key theme to bed. (This is where audiences start choking up.) But Brahms has a surprise. The arpeggios return, but this time they are reconciled. The monsters of the deep are just phantoms after all.

second movement

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Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
~ Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong ~

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[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!

Missing Man Setting

“The Empty Chair”

By Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), on December 21st, 2004

“In the wardroom onboard the aircraft carrier from which I recently debarked was a small, round table, with single chair. No one ever sat there, and the reasons, both for the table being there, and for the fact that the chair was always empty, will tell the reader a little bit about who we are as a culture.The wardroom, of course, is where the officers will dine; morning, noon and evening. It is not only a place to eat – it is also a kind of oasis from the sometimes dreary, often difficult exigencies of the service. A place of social discourse, of momentary relief from the burdens of the day. The only things explicitly forbidden by inviolable tradition in the wardroom are the wearing of a cover or sword by an officer not actually on watch, or conversation which touches upon politics or religion. But aboard ships which observe the custom, another implicit taboo concerns the empty chair: No matter how crowded the room, no matter who is waiting to be seated, that chair is never moved, never taken.

The table is by the main entrance to the wardroom. You will see it when you enter, and you will see it when you leave. It draws your eyes because it is meant to. And because it draws your eyes it draws your thoughts. And though it will be there every day for as long as you are at sea, you will look at it every time and your eyes will momentarily grow distant as you think for a moment. As you quietly give thanks.

As you remember.

The small, round table is covered with a white linen tablecloth. A single place setting rests there, of fine bone china. A wineglass stands upon the table, inverted, empty. On the dinner plate is a pinch of salt. On the bread plate is a slice of lemon. Besides the plate lies a bible. There is a small vase with a single red rose upon the table. Around the vase is wound a yellow ribbon. There is the empty chair.

We will remember because over the course of our careers, we will have had the opportunity to enjoy many a formal evening of dinner and dancing in the fine company of those with whom we have the honor to serve, and their lovely ladies. And as the night wears on, our faces will in time become flushed with pleasure of each other’s company, with the exertions on the dance floor, with the effects of our libations. But while the feast is still at its best, order will be called to the room – we will be asked to raise our glasses to the empty table, and we will be asked to remember:

The table is round to show our everlasting concern for those who are missing. The single setting reminds us that every one of them went to their fates alone, that every life was unique.

The tablecloth is white symbolizing the purity of their motives when they answered the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones who kept the faith.

The yellow ribbon around the vase symbolizes our continued determination to remember them.

The slice of lemon reminds us of the bitterness of their fate.
The salt symbolizes the tears shed by those who loved them.
The bible represents the faith that sustained them.
The glass is inverted — they cannot share in the toast.
The chair is empty — they are not here. They are missing.

And we will remember, and we will raise our glasses to those who went before us, and who gave all that they had for us. And a part of the flush in our faces will pale as we remember that nothing worth having ever came without a cost. We will remember that many of our brothers and sisters have paid that cost in blood. We will remember that the reckoning is not over.

We many of us will settle with our families into our holiday season, our Christmas season for those who celebrate it, content in our fortune and prosperity. We will meet old friends with smiles and laughter. We will meet our members of our family with hugs. We will eat well, and exchange gifts and raise our glasses to the year passed in gratitude, and to the year to come with hope. We will sleep the sleep of the protected, secure in our homes, secure in our homeland.

But for many families, there will be an empty chair at the table this year. A place that is not filled.

We should remember.”

Thanks To Alfa6 For The Narrative Of “The Empty Chair.”

Schumann - Traumerei
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Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

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San Franciscan Nights
~ Eric Burdon & The Animals ~

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[luvie]

Howdy, DJ Conor! Good stuff there! (((hugs)))

[luvie]

ROAD TRIP!!

Bachman Turner Overdrive~Let It Ride

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[AZamericonnie]

LOL....mixed drinks! You’re so fun Cindy sue & thank you for all your work! Love the theme. *Hugs*

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Luv!

*HUGS*

How are you doing tonight? Unfortunately, I can't stay up late tonight - a full day at work tomorrow.



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[luvie]

ROAD TRIP!!

Al Jarreau~One Way

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[luvie]

Hi, Conor! I’m good. Off tomorrow, so I can cruise a bit.

YOU need a vacation! :)....even if it’s at the house! LOL!

[Publius]

If you get the chance, drop in over the weekend and enjoy the material Brahms wrote as preparation for his German Requiem. 13 posts in all tonight,

[AZamericonnie]

LOVED this vid Boogieman & thank you for posting it! Welcome to the Canteen! *Hugs*

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Chicago (1964)
~ Frank Sinatra ~

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[AZamericonnie]

The great Frank Patterson and a special guest on the opening offering

Oh wunnerful Conor! Thanks for all you do & as always for your service!

[Publius]

Johannes Brahms dropped in on the Lower Rhine Music Festival in Cologne, met Wagnerian heldensoprano Luise Dustmann, flirted with her and, according to Brahms’ first biographer, bedded her. After all, opera singers are hardly virgins!

Brahms started sketching a cello sonata, a quintet for strings and a symphony. The symphony was to go through another twelve years gestation before it was ready. Even the quintet had another two years to go before Jo could get a real handle on it.

There is an old saying that one of the most stressful things that can happen to a person is to see a friend promoted. In this case, the wily old conductor in Hamburg decided not to die on the podium, and Jo’s good buddy Julius Stockhausen got the gig. Brahms was floored, and he never lost his anger at his hometown. Now it was time for a change. At the age of 29, Brahms moved to Vienna. It was to be a marriage made in heaven.

No one ever plotted a musical career more shrewdly than Brahms. He had amazing gifts, and he made sure everybody knew it! There were more venues for music in Vienna than in any other city in the German speaking world, and Brahms knew which field he had to conquer first. He began by playing a piano recital where the first half consisted of Beethoven, Bach and Schumann, and the second half of his own material.

Wagner himself was in the audience. While Brahms despised the cult around Richard Wagner, he absolutely respected the operas of that composer. Wagner had totally reformed the art of German opera, and Brahms appreciated that. While Wagner was openly contemptuous of Brahms and his music, Jo had a quiet respect for Wagner and never badmouthed him, attending all his operas with enthusiasm.

Jo got himself a new best friend: Karl Tausig, one of the better pianists and arrangers in town. They would spend hours playing four-handed duets, smoking and telling the latest dirty jokes.

Every composer worth his salt wrote variations on Paganini’s 24th Caprice. Rachmaninov, Rochberg, Lutoslawski, and Brahms all took cracks at it. Brahms wrote them up as two complete books of etudes for Tausig. Clara thought they were a bit too much like Franz Liszt, but they were too juicy for her to ignore. She took them up with gusto. This is another intense session that you might want to bookmark for later.

Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1

Book 2