Re: [MBZ] OT Louie Louie

WILTON Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:57:32 -0700

'Nother ATTABOY.

Wilton

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I sang in the Met Opera boys' chorus from 7 until my voice changed (11,
IIRC).  I also had a couple solo roles, one of which included a curtain
call as Gherardino in Puccini's one act opera Gianni Schicchi (usually
paired with Salome in a double bill).  I lost interest in opera until
recently.  Last show attended was a the Washington Opera performance of
Manon Lescaut.


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:30 PM, WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote:

Yep, they're mighty fine, too.


Wilton

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 I liked symphonies as a young person, especially those with a principal

performer; Jascha Heifetz, for example.  Later preferred opera, and
currently prefer vocal performers such as Dimitri Hvorostovsky, Elina
Garanca, etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=OmPI2WNuUzE<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmPI2WNuUzE>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=aakfkGBh-fM<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aakfkGBh-fM>

Gerry


 Yep; fantastic!  A bit late, but very welcomed.  Thanks.

Wilton

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=_-mvutiDRvQ<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mvutiDRvQ>

 Is there an icon on that page we can click right now to hear some

symphony? 'Probably good for all of us.   ;<))

Wilton

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 Beethovens 9th is undoubtedly one of the great compositons of

classical music:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Symphony_No._9_%28Beethoven%29<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_%28Beethoven%29>

but you can't really compare classical music to modern music.Modernmusic can appeal to a much wider range of people than classicalmusic; thelovers of which undoubtedly have a "classical gene" left over fromtheir

ancestors. (I fell in love with classical music at age 6).
Classical music has many bizarre forms; partitas for solo violin for

example; and the only way to separate the silliness from real musicis tostate that any work which does not have "melody" is nonsense; atleast to

the casual classic music listener.
IMO the decline of classical music began with the "Rite of Spring",
and it's gotten continually worse (Hindemith, et al).
Gerry

From: "OK Don" <okd...@gmail.com>

O   M   G !!!  Both examples are black noise. Real music started
dying
after Beethoven's 9th ----

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Gerry Archer <
arche...@embarqmail.com>**wrote:

The broad field of nonsense music from which all modern music is
derives
actually began in the 1920s with a South African song written by a
Zulu:
"Mbube" (Zulu: lion) was written in the 1920s by Solomon Linda, a
South
African singer of Zulu origin, who worked for the Gallo Record
Company as a
cleaner and record packer, and who performed with a choir, The
Evening
Birds, where, according to South African journalist Rian Malan:
"Mbube" wasn't the most remarkable tune, but there was something
terribly
compelling about the underlying chant, a dense meshing of low male
voices
above which Solomon yodelled and howled for two exhilarating
minutes,
occasionally making it up as he went along. The third take was the
great
one, but it achieved immortality only in its dying seconds, when
Solly

[Solomon Linda] took a deep breath, opened his mouth andimprovised

the
melody that the world now associates with these words:
'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.'
Linda's improvised melody was wordless; no English words occur in
the
recording.
Issued by Gallo as a 78 recording in 1939 and marketed to black
audiences,
"Mbube" became a hit and Linda a star throughout South Africa. By
1948, the
song had sold about 100,000 copies in Africa and among black South
African
immigrants in Great Britain and had lent its name to a style of
African a
cappella music that evolved into isicathamiya (also called mbube),
popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.....snip"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?****NR=1&v=_LBmUwi6mEo&feature=****
endscreen<http://www.youtube.com/watch?**NR=1&v=_LBmUwi6mEo&feature=**endscreen>
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feature=endscreen<http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=_LBmUwi6mEo&feature=endscreen>
>

As everyone knows this led to scream music, ( Barbra Streisand and
others), which has become the current female standard; and all the
infinitely variegated forms of lunatic music (Grateful Dead, Punk,
etc.) as
a primary cause of the current decline of Western Civilization.

Ou only hope is to go back to "real music" as best demonstrated by
Lawrence Welk.

Gerry....tic
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 I am out working on my addition, listening to KPFT Houston
streaming over

the tubernets, and they just played a set of songs about Louie
Louie. How

many of y'all remember Louie Louie by the Kingsmen? It causedall

kinds of
stir, clearly the commienists were behind it, subverting the
morals of
Merkin youth with that filthy rocknroll trash.  We knew it had
dirty lyrics
but no one could figure out what they were.

We would spontaneously break into playing that in band class injr

high,
the band teacher Mr. Broome who was about 5ft tall and wide, and
who hated
that song with a passion (which of course became the lore of Mr.
Broome
that all kids knew, passed along, remembered, etc.) would go into
an
altered state when he heard us playing it before class started.
 It was the

most awesome thing about band class. I think it was the onlysong

we all
learned to play without music and a band leader, go figure.

After the first two years there he retired, another guy tookover,

a
young guy, we tried that once and he had no issue with it so it
just faded
away.... but then the Laugh In song became popular and he had
issues with
that, so of course what did we do!

--R



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