FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

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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
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[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

George Howard~When Summer Comes

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, AZ, for the red, white, and blue tribute.

Did you have a safe commute? Minimal traffic? *HUGS*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cindy!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cindy!!

[Publius]

Johannes Brahms had met Elisabet (“Lisl”) von Stockhausen – no relation to Julius – when she was a teenage piano student of his. She turned out to be a fine pianist and an even better soprano. Jo had fallen for her, but with his misogyny toward women, nothing had happened. Now she was pushing thirty and safely married to music professor Heinrich von Herzogenberg in Leipzig, and she asked Jo to come and visit.

Jo’s relationship with Clara Schumann had experienced its high and low points, and it was entering another low point. Jo now formed another relationship with a musical confidante. Lisl understood exactly how to handle Jo Brahms. Her combination of affection and mock gruffness tickled him, and most importantly, she knew how to make him laugh. Lisl began sanding the rough edges off Jo’s personality. Under her capable hands, Jo started turning into a fat pussycat. Even when he roared like a lion at a party, Lisl could tearfully make him repent.

British composer Ethel Smyth also lived in the household, and as a fine memoirist, she documented the changes in Brahms. Ethel was a lesbian and had a thing for Lisl, which fortunately Lisl did not perceive.

From this period came a goodly number of songs.

Brahms spent his summer at Lake Worth, pronounced “vort” in German, and he would spend the next three summers there. He took his daily swim, and then he worked on another symphony. By the fall, he was ready to rehearse in Vienna.

The introduction begins in the sunny key of D Major, and at 1:57 there is absolute magic. This passage sounds like it’s going to be a first subject, but it’s not. In fact, it never shows up again, but it’s “Clara” spelled out in musical notation. Kleiber caresses this passage, and I had to reach for my handkerchief. The real first subject comes at 2:20 and is succeeded by a second subject in A Major at 3:00. It sounds a bit like his lullaby. At 5:42, Kleiber skips the repeat and goes directly to the development. At 6:45 the dissonance on the trombones is searing. At 8:45 the recapitulations begins, re-composed as Brahms always likes. At 12:46, Brahms leads into a gentle coda.

At one of those discussions in Seattle, there was general agreement that this slow movement was one of the greatest in Brahms’ output. It’s in B Major and is one of his longest slow movements. Just let it flow.

The third movement is a short, sweet intermezzo in G Major in the traditional ternary format. It starts with the oboe in 3/4 and one of Brahms’ most beguiling tunes. The middle section goes into duple time before returning to three. At 27:55 he switches to 3/8 before returning to a more moderate 3/4 at 28:38.

The finale shows Brahms at his most relaxed, yet exuberant. Let Brahms take you for a wild, wonderful ride.

Brahms: Symphony #2 in D Major, Op. 73

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Nancy Faust~Take Me Out To The Ballgame

For th' Colonel! :D

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[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Greg Adams~Firefly

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[AZamericonnie]

Actually I believe Brahms will lull me to a wonderful sleep this evening & thank you so very much for all your work Prof....you rock!

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Gregg Karuka~Desert Dancing

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[Publius]

Well, garsh.

(blush blush)

[AZamericonnie]

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Billiy's Blues

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[Publius]

Following his summer vacation, Johannes Brahms dropped in at Baden-Baden to see his professional acquaintance, the conductor Han von Bülow, great exponent of Wagner – even after Wagner stole his wife, who was the daughter of Franz Liszt. After playing a four-handed piano version of the First Symphony together, Hans decided to switch his allegiance to Brahms. It was Hans who invented “the three B’s: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.”

It was around Christmas 1877 that Brahms finally met Antonin Dvorak. Brahms had chaired a committee that subsidized Dvorak handsomely for his early compositions, and now Brahms made sure that Fritz Simrock, his publisher, knew about him. It was not the first time Brahms had helped a colleague, but it became the best known time. From this introduction, Simrock commissioned Dvorak to write a series of Slavonic Dances in the tradition of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances. They were to make Dvorak rich.

The premiere of the Second Symphony at the end of 1877 was a huge hit in Vienna, and Brahms took it on the road in early 1878 to great success. Ethel Smyth noted that Leipzig wasn’t impressed, as usual.

Returning to Lake Worth for his summer stay, Brahms went to work on a violin concerto for his old friend Joseph Joachim. The virtuoso would occasionally drop in at the summer cottage to work on bowing and try out ideas. Brahms went so far as to ask Joachim to write the cadenza in the first movement, so it was a collaboration of professionals. The goal was to have it ready for New Years Day 1879 in Leipzig.

Along the way, Brahms turned out some more songs and his first set of short piano pieces, a collection of little gems.

Brahms: Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76/2

Intermezzo in A-flat Major, Op. 76/3

Intermezzo in B-flat Major, Op. 76/4

Capriccio in C# minor, Op. 76/5

Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 76/6

Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 76/7

[luvie]

IN THE GOOD OLE SUMMER TIME!

Nat King Cole~That Sunday, That Summer

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Smile

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Smile

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[AZamericonnie]

And the race is on!

[AZamericonnie]

And the race is on!

[AZamericonnie]

And the race is on!

[AZamericonnie]

And the race is on!

[AZamericonnie]

And the race is on!