Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-26 Thread John Sessoms
I think Jenkins originally wrote that piece for the DeBeers company. He's kind of a classical music version of Barry Manilow. From: P. J. Alling The DeBeers commercial has really ruined that particular song, for me and the damned dancers in that clip were annoyingly distracting, what are

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-26 Thread John Sessoms
And Jean-Luc Ponty beat them all. I was commenting on where the sexy girls w/electric violins playing classical music thingy came from; a limited subset. From: Boris Liberman In my ears, Vanessa Mae is far better violin player than Bond. I should also mention that Mik Kaminski of ELO

RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-26 Thread Bob W
As I mentioned earlier, apart from the electricity bit it started with Vivaldi, teaching foundling girls in Venice: http://www.users.cloud9.net/~recross/why-not/Vivaldi.html The young ladies for whom Vivaldi composed and directed music were known as the putte or maidens. [...] The reputation of

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-25 Thread P. J. Alling
Yea, it was really tough charging them rubbing silk on cats... On 6/20/2011 8:21 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Subject: RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-25 Thread P. J. Alling
The DeBeers commercial has really ruined that particular song, for me and the damned dancers in that clip were annoyingly distracting, what are producers of these shows thinking anyway? Oh, I know, the audience is made up of Assholes... On 6/20/2011 5:50 PM, John Sessoms wrote: Seems to have

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-25 Thread David Parsons
++ I went to the MFA last weekend, and the only two pictures I took were of the outside facade. It was nice to just look for a change. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net wrote: I'm not familiar with her work, but that sounds very pleasant.  Good for you! I

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-25 Thread Boris Liberman
In my ears, Vanessa Mae is far better violin player than Bond. I should also mention that Mik Kaminski of ELO (although he's no woman) seems to predate both. Few years ago I went to the concert of Orchestra (some members of ELO and others of ELO II) and he played his blue electric violin

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-21 Thread Boris Liberman
On 6/21/2011 00:11, Bob W wrote: Oh, the 'sits'. Sorry. Misread it. Seats, I suppose... My bad. Take a cold shower. You misread it again, Bob. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
Boris, She's nice to look at, but an ELECTRIC violin?!? Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. Two days ago I went to see Vanessa Mae perform in ancient amphitheater of Caesaria. I lucked out to get the sits in the middle of the

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Boris Liberman
On 6/20/2011 16:53, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, She's nice to look at, but an ELECTRIC violin?!? Regards, Bob S. She played all but two numbers with an old acoustic violin, which I later looked up on Wikipedia and allegedly it is late 18th century work. All in all, the way she plays and the

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Christine Nielsen
I'm not familiar with her work, but that sounds very pleasant. Good for you! I think sometimes it's better to leave the camera behind. It's hard to fully experience something when you are simultaneously trying to capture it... -c On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Boris Liberman

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Christine Aguila
I just bought her album Storm from iTunes! Seeing her live must have been amazing. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:27 AM Subject: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo

RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Bob W
Hi there. Two days ago I went to see Vanessa Mae perform in ancient amphitheater of Caesaria. I lucked out to get the sits in the middle of the front row... Oh, man, I hate it when that happens. Gosh, that was beautiful. Oh, the 'sits'. Sorry. Misread it. I admit that I chose not

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread John Sessoms
Seems to have started with a string quartet called Bond. They did a version of Karl Jenkins' Palladio Allegro (the DeBeers diamond commercial song) that seemed to kind of kick off the whole girls electric violins thingy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8lXkH0IsQYfeature=related From: Bob

RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Bob W
Vivaldi was doing that crap 300 years ago. B Seems to have started with a string quartet called Bond. They did a version of Karl Jenkins' Palladio Allegro (the DeBeers diamond commercial song) that seemed to kind of kick off the whole girls electric violins thingy.

RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread John Sessoms
I didn't think Ben Franklin had invented the electric violin yet? From: Bob W Vivaldi was doing that crap 300 years ago. B Seems to have started with a string quartet called Bond. They did a version of Karl Jenkins' Palladio Allegro (the DeBeers diamond commercial song) that seemed to

Re: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content)

2011-06-20 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Subject: RE: Vanessa Mae in Israel (no photo content) I didn't think Ben Franklin had invented the electric violin yet? Its a little known fact but he did