FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

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[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Tunes For The Troops     **Artist Showcase** Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Gilda Mirsky Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro. Laura was of Russian Jewish and Italian ancestry. As a child, she taught herself piano, read poetry, and listened to her mother's records by Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday and classical composers such as Ravel and Debussy. She composed her first songs at age eight. With her family, she spent summers in the Catskill Mountains, where her father played the trumpet at resorts. While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth." Among her favorite musicians were John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Curtis Mayfield, Van Morrison, and girl groups such as The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Shirelles. Nyro's own renditions of her songs never attained hit status, but between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had achieved significant successes on the charts with her works. Other artists scored hit after hit with her songs, led by the 5th Dimension’s “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “Sweet Blindness” in 1968 (then “Wedding Bell Blues” in ’69 and “Blowin' Away” in ’70). Over two consecutive weeks in October 1969, Blood, Sweat & Tears entered the Hot 100 with “And When I Die,” and Three Dog Night followed with “Eli's Coming.” In 1970-71, Barbra Streisand charted three consecutive times with Laura Nyro songs, “Stoney End,” “Time And Love” and “Flim Flam Man.” Nyro's evocative vocal style mixed jazz and rhythm-and-blues with street pop, gospel, and Broadway, and her three-octave range has led her voice to be characterized as both "a blues soprano" and "a rich, charcoal-smudged alto." In 1996, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After the diagnosis, Columbia Records prepared a double-disc CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. The company involved Nyro herself, who selected the tracks and approved the final project. She lived to see the release of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997), and was reportedly pleased with the outcome. Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, at 49, the age at which the same disease had claimed the life of her mother. Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, and Melissa Manchester. Todd Rundgren stated that, once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura". On April 14th, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday. Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops! *Canteen Mission Statement* Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

 

More Than a New Discovery	Eli Thirteenth Confession
Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 1	Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 2
New York Tendaberry	Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat-(Remastered)
Gonna Take A Miracle Ft. Patti LaBelle	Smile-(Remastered)
Season Of Light	Mothers Spiritual
Live at The Bottom Line	Walk The Dog & Light The Light
Angel in the Dark	The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 1
> The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 2
*Website*

[AZamericonnie]

Hummm....what was post #7?

[AZamericonnie]

Great advice Cindy Sue! *Hugs*

[TMSuchman]

I’m gettin there slowly. I will be getting my truck on the 3rd & the camper early in Aug. With me leaving here in Mi. early in Sept. I just confirmed the order for the satt. tv/internet/phone system to be set up on Oct. 1 [Gotta pay for it when installed $75.00 per month for all 3 with the usual bells & whistles on the system] I figure it will take me about 2 or 3 days of driving to get there. And 1 day to start setting up the house site. Then I have to go around & check in with the Fire Dept. & Sheriffs Dept [per the wife’s wishes]

[Publius]

You’re forgiven. The best thing to do is bookmark the thread and come back during the week to wallow in the music.

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening DJ's & Thank you!

*The House Is A Rockin'*

[AZamericonnie]

Hiya Biggirl & wonderful to see you!

Hope your week went well & wishing you a wonderful weekend! *Hugs*

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening Mayor & Thank you for our Daily Bread.

Hope things are well with you & yours & you get some R&R this weekend! *Hugs*

[Publius]

Johannes Brahms decided to leave the opera house to Wagner and the recital hall to Liszt. After the Requiem, Jo took half the year off, visiting friends and dropping in on Clara Schumann. Jo still had a thing for Clara’s daughter Julie, and Clara still had no idea what was on Brahms’ mind. This was why she didn’t mention that Julie had an Italian nobleman courting her. He then returned to Vienna where he spent his time getting his works published and editing the late Schubert piano pieces.

By now Brahms was playing primarily his own works when he went on the road to perform. He really didn’t enjoy practicing the piano and getting ready for a concert, but he couldn’t say no to the money. His best times in Vienna were spent hanging out with his cronies drinking, smoking cigars and telling the latest dirty jokes.

Where do you go after a Number #1 hit? For Brahms, always looking to cast against type, it was time to have fun.

For years Brahms had been playing Hungarian dances at parties for friends, but he had never written them down. These were tunes he had picked up in his teens during his days as half of the Jo and Eddie Show. While few of the tunes were original, what Brahms would do to them would make his publisher, Fritz Simrock, rich beyond dreams of avarice. First, Jo arranged them for four-handed piano duets, something he and Clara could play for fun. Then he made a two-handed version for solo performers. Then he arranged them for orchestra. His friend Joseph Joachim arranged them for violin and piano. Deciding that violinists shouldn’t have all the fun, cellist Bion Tsang recently arranged them for cello and piano. These are all wonderful bon-bons.

Brahms: Hungarian Dance #1 for four-handed piano duet

for orchestra

Hungarian Dance #2 for four-handed piano duet

Hungarian Dance #3 for four-handed piano duet

Hungarian Dance #4 in Joachim’s violin and piano arrangement

for four-handed piano duet

Even Mel Brooks took a shot at Hungarian Dance #4 in the movie “The Twelve Chairs” from 1970. For those who don’t know Fanny Hurst, she was the Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel of the Thirties.

”Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst”

This one has become part of world folklore.

Hungarian Dance #5 for orchestra

That’s arranger Bion Tsang on cello and my friend Anton Nel on piano. They both teach of the University of Texas at Austin. I attended the first public performance of this arrangement at a private home in Seattle where Bion and pianist Anna Polonsky both hammed it up for great fun.

for cello and piano

Hungarian Dance #6 for four-handed piano duet

for orchestra

[AZamericonnie]

Good evening G-Pa of two!!!!!

I was trying to catch up & see you you now have a granddaughter!

Congratulations & the Sandrat family keeps growing! *Hugs*

[AZamericonnie]

{{{{{Tann}}}}}

So good to see you!

Are you on summer break yet?

[SandRat]

Come Monday and we’ll have both GranBabies here, Nate and Madison.

[luvie]

Epic, Maestro! :)

[Publius]

Conor would advise you to set aside an hour-plus for the Requiem and keep a box of tissues handy.

[AZamericonnie]

Mrs TMS is a smart Lady!:)

I’ve no doubts you’ve got this planned very well.

I’m very excited for you all!

[luvie]

That’s good to know! :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[AZamericonnie]

Wow....some great "Summertime" stuff there Cindy & thank you for it!

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime

Does it get any better?

Gonna have to try some Strawberry Lemonaid! *Hugs*

[Publius]

It was on a May day in 1869 that 36 year old Johannes Brahms dropped in on Clara Schumann and the family at the resort of Baden-Baden and was told that Julie was engaged. Brahms ran out of the house, and it suddenly became clear to Clara that Jo had a thing for Julie. From this came one of the great Brahms vocal works with orchestra, the Alto Rhapsody. Clara came to love the piece passionately for its heartbreaking intensity. The text is from Goethe. It begins bleakly.

”But who is that standing apart?
His steps recede into the bushes,
The thickets close behind him.
The barren waste swallows him up.”

At 3:52 the recitative leads into an aria.

”Ah, who can heal the pain
Of one for whom the balm has become poison,
And who sucked hatred of mankind
From the abundance of love?”

At 7:00 the alto is joined by men’s chorus in C Major for a beautiful resolution.

”If in your psaltery,
Father of love, there is a tone
Which his ear can discern,
Refresh his heart!
Open to his clouded gaze
The thousand springs
Alongside him as he thirsts
In the wilderness.”

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody

Brahms would have an occasional infatuation in his later years, and there were always his regular visits to one of the better brothels in Vienna, but the door to love was closed forever, and this song is his farewell.

[AZamericonnie]

Good eveing Kathy! *Hugs*

The stair man made it?

[luvie]

ROFL!! Now you’ve done it, Connie! Made me hungry for
Braums peppermint ice cream! :)