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Posted on 02/05/2016 5:59:02 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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Whitney Houston sings the The National Anthem - Star Spangled Banner
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fvwjg
LOL!
Different video...
Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs
Hee-Hee, I see a Florida move maybe in your future :-)
Ya don't have to shovel the rain.
OK, Rock it!
I wish...but the Lord is leading me to stay here.
I am needed.
But, one never knows from one day to the next whatever will be.
Thanks, Connie, for today's Tune For Our Troops.
Being sidelined by a bad cold, I'm reaching back to classical music insofar as I don't have the energy to do the research that Rockumentray requires. Here are some pieces I heard over the past two weekends.
Franz Schubert had found it difficult to engage with the music of Beethoven. His teacher at the Vienna Choirboys School, Antonio Salieri, believed that everything Beethoven had written after the Second Symphony was a waste of music paper. Tony's death in 1825 permitted Frannie to dive into the music of Beethoven without guilt and with a sense that encountering Beethoven's music was critical to his own development as a composer.
Beethoven's death in 1827 turned out to be major break for Frannie. The presidency of the Music Guild was a rotating affair, and Frannie as a board member had rotated into that job just in time for him to arrange the guild's participation in Beethoven's funeral. At the same time, Beethoven's factotum, Anton Schindler, had absconded with a multi-volume set of The Collected Works of George Frederick Handel, published by Salomon of London, from Beethoven's library and handed it to Frannie. Just as he had hoped for history to remember Beethoven as "Schindler's Beethoven," he had seen what so many of the Viennese music community had perceived, that Schubert was next in line. By passing these very expensive books to Schubert, he hoped to stake his historical claim as "Schindler's Schubert." After Schubert's death, had Schindler been smart, he would have gone to Weimar to introduce himself to an up-and-coming pianist and composer who might have been known to history as "Schindler's Liszt."
Frannie was too young to have heard Handel in the opera house. His only exposure to that composer was Mozart's arrangement of "Messiah" in German. The books were a revelation and ignited a interest in counterpoint that held to the day of Schubert's death at age 31 a year later.
I've posted two of the four movements of this trio in the past, and tonight I want to post the third movement, a scherzo, that is based on the counterpoint learned from the Handel books.
Sending out prayers for Arrowhead1952 as he recovers from his horrible fall.
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(I see what you did there!)
I hope your cold gets better soon. I have had one too, and it made last night’s singing gig very laborious for me. I was singing originals, and mostly Blues, so it SOUNDED good, but was a struggle.
I will be interested in hearing what other puns you can come up with by Chopin up the names of composers and other musical terms.
Be sure and get Bach to me with that!
I’m on it! :)
How are you tonight, PRO?
This trio comes from Lou's middle period, and I covered it in its entirety when I did my survey of Beethoven's chamber music. Beethoven paired this trio with the famous, taut "Ghost" Trio, named after its eerie slow movement. By contrast, this trio shows Lou relaxed, a snifter of brandy in one hand, a fine Cuban stogie in the other, and a lady of the evening in his lap.
The trio lacks a true slow movement, and this cute little allegro in C Major takes its place. It's a joke full of Lou's humor with a sneaky ending in C minor that catches the listener by surprise.
I don’t get too many chances to come up with a significant pun like that one.
LOL!! I am so NOT looking forward to this move. d:o)
Good stuff, Mr. P! :)
I picked the easy pieces tonight. It’s a good intro to classical music, chamber music style, for people who aren’t familiar with it or who normally don’t like it.
It's Par-tay time!
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