Music recommendations

[datsunaholic]

Thanks, Bruce.

I still love the fact that some people think it's a patriotic Pro-America song. It's... Not. Yet so many Republicans have used it as a campaign song.

[Sue U]

I still love the fact that some people think it's a patriotic Pro-America song. It's... Not. Yet so many Republicans have used it as a campaign song.

Irony died when Paul Ryan said he loved RATM.

[BoSoxGal]

[Sue U]

That's a classic, BSG. Have you heard the Rhiannon Giddens version?

[BoSoxGal]

That's a classic, BSG. Have you heard the Rhiannon Giddens version?

I had not, thank you so much for sharing it - I loved it so much I shared with my friends on the Facebook. The video is wonderful, along with the cover. I'll be watching it a lot between now and November 5. Thanks again!

[Sue U]

I had not, thank you so much for sharing it - I loved it so much I shared with my friends on the Facebook. The video is wonderful, along with the cover. I'll be watching it a lot between now and November 5. Thanks again!

If you hadn't heard her before, Rhiannon Giddens is an incredibly talented and versatile musician. She does numerous styles of folk and classical music and in addition to playing banjo and fiddle had trained as an opera singer. Her repertoire is astounding: If you like old-timey/bluegrass/country, check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops. If you like Americana/folk, I recommend Our Native Daughters (with Allison Russell, who I adore). She does country/pop on her solo album (including Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton covers) and I understand she's more recently been doing work in jazz, but I haven't actually heard any of that yet.

See, this is why I want to retire, so I can spend all my time listening to great artists like this.

[BoSoxGal]

I will check out those recommendations! Listening to more music is a worthwhile objective for retirement years!

Here’s a nice one, from 2020 but I only just discovered it myself, and it holds up:

[Burning Petard]

I was driving around for some errands when on my car radio I heard the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Tosconni performing JS Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Oh? I said to myself, I have never heard this on any thing except an Organ; what will it be like with a orchestra? My answer was: absolutely stunning. I think you know I have an uneducated musical ear and very plebeian taste. Nevertheless, I like anything by Bach very much. I even went to a live performance of the music of PDQ Bach and loved it.

For me, this sounded like what Johnny Bach himself would have done if he had access to the huge modern symphony orchestra with modern instruments. It seemed to be entirely consistent with the spirit and sound of Bach’s original organ composition and fully exploit the possibilities of the full orchestra. Amazing! I have heard many ‘orchestrations’ of solo instrument pieces that have none of the flavor or spirit of the original. In my mind this what such adaptions should be. I sat I a parking lot, waiting for the end to see if the radio/host disc jockey would tell me more. He said it was a 1936 recording of an arrangement by Henry J. Wood.

I searched wiki for that name and discovered he died in 1939. He was prominent English conductor with lots of important accomplishments over a long active life. He had once been offered the position of conductor for the New York Philharmonic and turned it down because he thought he should continue his responsibilities as an musician for England. He did this Bach arrangement in 1929 as a stunt to get back at some of his critics who did not like his arrangements. He performed this, giving credit to a fake Russian composer and the critics loved it.

So do I. Now I have that on my list to try and find a recording to put with my personal music collection on my computer.

[Sue U]

I was driving around for some errands when on my car radio I heard the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Tosconni performing JS Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Oh? I said to myself, I have never heard this on any thing except an Organ; what will it be like with a orchestra? My answer was: absolutely stunning. I think you know I have an uneducated musical ear and very plebeian taste. Nevertheless, I like anything by Bach very much. I even went to a live performance of the music of PDQ Bach and loved it.

For me, this sounded like what Johnny Bach himself would have done if he had access to the huge modern symphony orchestra with modern instruments. It seemed to be entirely consistent with the spirit and sound of Bach’s original organ composition and fully exploit the possibilities of the full orchestra. Amazing! I have heard many ‘orchestrations’ of solo instrument pieces that have none of the flavor or spirit of the original. In my mind this what such adaptions should be. I sat I a parking lot, waiting for the end to see if the radio/host disc jockey would tell me more. He said it was a 1936 recording of an arrangement by Henry J. Wood.

I searched wiki for that name and discovered he died in 1939. He was prominent English conductor with lots of important accomplishments over a long active life. He had once been offered the position of conductor for the New York Philharmonic and turned it down because he thought he should continue his responsibilities as an musician for England. He did this Bach arrangement in 1929 as a stunt to get back at some of his critics who did not like his arrangements. He performed this, giving credit to a fake Russian composer and the critics loved it.

So do I. Now I have that on my list to try and find a recording to put with my personal music collection on my computer.

Thanks for all that, BP! Hope this helps:

[ex-khobar Andy]

He was a prominent English conductor - his main claim to fame (at least as recognized today) is that he was the driving force behind London's annual Promenade Concerts, aka 'The Proms.' This was / is an attempt to democratize classical music which had by the end of the 19thC become expensive and somewhere for the wealthy to be seen. So low cost 'promenade' or 'walking around' tickets were made available. Nowadays the full title is the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and the BBC broadcasts chunks of them every year.

[Joe Guy]

[Burning Petard]

Thank you Andy. My quick search on You tube brought up the BBC from the 2010 Proms with a full orchestra in Albert Hall but with a Stokowski arrangement. it seemed rather ordinary to me . One of the comments complained that for that performance they should have at least included in some way the very fine pipe organ in that venue. Amazon had several recordings of the Stokowski arrangement. I do not like it nearly as much as the one by Wood. Perhaps because I know something of the story. It seems to me to be almost an insult to not use Wood's for the Prom.

But a wider search brought up a cd of the Wood version, the recording you posted above, reissue from 1936!. Ordered it from EBay. Hope it comes though with at least a useable copy. Thanks again Andy.

snailgate.

[Joe Guy]

link to video.

[Sue U]

Excellent, JG; we need more songs and singer-songwriters like that.

[Joe Guy]

Excellent, JG; we need more songs and singer-songwriters like that.

I just recently discovered Jesse Welles when he came up as a suggested video on YouTube. If you haven't already, you should check out his YouTube Channel.

[BoSoxGal]

[Sue U]

[Billy Joel vid]

I'll see your Billy Joel and raise you X.

[Joe Guy]

The current state of LA reminded me of this song....

[BoSoxGal]

[BoSoxGal]