On 1 Feb 2008 19:28:32 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:


>>>I've heard a few like that, and I also quite like them.  It's always fun
>>>to see musicians (regardless of genre) who have *real* talent.
>> 
>> Agreed, be it rock, classical, folk or especially world music.
>
>Yep.  As I live next door to a place with (at last count) 3 garage bands 
>(one of the guys is a sound engineer, so he has all manner of "artists" 
>come in), and most of what we hear, well, let's just say that if we 
>called them "three-chord wonders", it'd be an insult to three-cord 
>wonders the world over.  One of the percussionists can't keep a steady 
>beat, even.

Arrg! Do you need help moving? I think that being on one of the feeder routes
for the Notting Hill Carnival is enough to make me leave the city for that
weekend :) Not that I don't like Reggie (Bob Marley excluded) and Soca but it's
all that electric stuff :(

>Personally, I'm a classical fan - mostly Romantic period, though I like a 
>fair amount of Baroque music as well.

The other way round for me, Baroque to Romantic. My wife likes Classical to
modern, there is a fair overlap. 

>Right now, I'm listening to the 1812 Overture.  I think it's the Telarc 
>Digital recording (but I could be wrong, I've got a couple recordings of 
>it).
>
>>>> Who recorded "In the hall of the mountain King"?
>>>

>I haven't seen the play myself; there is a recorded orchestral version 
>I've heard that has lyrics in German that I really like.  I may have to 
>dig that up now, in fact...Most of the recordings are just orchestral.
>

The play is a fantasy with music. It reminds me a bit of "The rakes progress"
and the "Tales of Hoffman", not musically of course :) I say it at the RNT in
about 2000.


>Have you ever listened to Joe Satriani?  The album _Surfing with the 
>Alien_ is particularly good - I like "Midnight" from that album - some 
>outstanding technical guitar playing in that track.

I'll keep anr eye open :)

>>>There's lyrics, too, which I
>>>didn't think I'd like, but it's very well done.
>>>
>> The mind boggles :)
>> Which reminds me of the catalogue aria from Don Giovanni. Have you heard
>> Girlie Girlie by Sophia George 1986?
>
>I haven't - sounds like it might be interesting, though.  Mozart is an 
>interesting composer - I especially like the Symphony k16a, at least 
>about the first 30 bars of the first movement.  I get an image of people 
>running through a forest (like a chase).

To hear it is to remember it :) There should be a mp3 on the internet and I
think that Mozart would only recognise the idea :)

Young man you too girlie girlie
you just a flash it round the worldie.

Him have one up here
one down there
One in Hanover
one down a vere.
One she's a lawyer
one she's a doctor

It goes on a bit :)

And since the world and his wife are doing it:

Listening to Mozart Variations on the piano by someone. 

Regards
	Stephen

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