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I'll take your talented young woman and match you with a talented young man..:) I've always loved this piece.



Loved the flashmob Pixel:xyxthumbs
 
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Another perennial fave of mine, particularly "presto" from around the 7min mark

 
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DocK said:
Loved the flashmob Pixel:xyxthumbs
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I love the flashmob too, especially the junior conductors.

On the subject of enormous choirs and synchronising the sound, does anyone remember the opening of the Nagano Olympics? I'll post a YouTube link when I figure out how :(
 
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/music/a/violinist_metro.htm

Forwarded email describes what happened when acclaimed classical violinist Joshua Bell appeared incognito on a subway platform in Washington, D.C. one cold winter morning and played his heart out for tips. A Violinist in the Metro:

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?



 
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ghotib said:
I love the flashmob too, especially the junior conductors.

On the subject of enormous choirs and synchronising the sound, does anyone remember the opening of the Nagano Olympics? I'll post a YouTube link when I figure out how :(
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1. search for "Nagano Olympics Opening" and locate the links to the (2-part) Beethoven #9
2. click on the reference and start the clip - to make sure you've got the right one.
3. Highhlight the www... address, copy and paste it into your ASF post.

I've done it below for you:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhg-Aw_zMW4

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCqGfVNKh8
 
Tink said:
Dmitri Shostakovich - The Second Waltz

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I've always enjoyed his stuff, Tink. It's a bit lighter than the usual classical stuff I like, Wagner etc.

To keep it light, Ennio Morricone is probably one of the best Hollywood composers of his generation and I think his theme from The Mission is still up there as one of the all time great bits of movie music. Good movie too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E
 
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Beautiful, McLovin, thanks.
As the others on this thread too.

I was listening to waltzes, as well as others, just thought I would share that one.



 
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Tink said:
Beautiful, McLovin, thanks.
As the others on this thread too.

I was listening to waltzes, as well as others, just thought I would share that one.
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I like your taste in music, Tink.

Maybe you also appreciate these choral works I've rediscovered; Happy listening.



Joan Baez has recently turned it into a solo piece; it bears listening, if for no other reason than her clearly understood rendition of the English translation.

From even closer to home (for me) comes this mighty choral work:

 
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Very nice, thanks, Pixel.
I like your taste in music too.

This was a homeland song, that is being translated in English?

After the success of the full-length symphonic poem (most of which consists of rousing and turbulent passages, evoking the national struggle of the Finnish people), Sibelius published a stand-alone version of the hymn as the last of twelve numbers in his Masonic Ritual Music, Op. 113, with a text by opera singer Wäinö Sola. The version usually heard today has lyrics written by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi and was first performed in 1941. Sibelius himself arranged the hymn for choral performances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandia_Hymn
 
Sibelius Finlandia was such a powerful song that a number of other hymns were recorded on the score.

Have you seen "Be still my sou"l ?

 
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I like allot of classical music but i was always drawn to the more dramatic scores. I'm don't even know the right terms for a ll of this, but in the end i settled on Epic Sound Tracks, they have the big moving music i like so much...

Here is an example, but i use Spotify for this mostly...



This is what i listen to when i work, analyzing and trading.
 
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