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To anyone who needs a smile in these nightmare times, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain still makes videos in their self-isolation, and as usual they are The Best and actually Really Fucking Cute
Bonus: “Thank You For The Music”, featuring nine musicians and two cats:
Live Aid- Queen- Full Set HQ
Awesome 👏
Dear lord!
@advanced-procrastination iM
drift compatible
it took me a moment to realize what was going on with their hands. Drift compatible indeed!
Elton John on Freddie Mercury.
(I’m posting this less to correct the timeline portrayed in Bohemian Rhapsody, which I mostly really enjoyed, than simply to share a beautiful story that shines light on who Freddie actually was, up to the very end, via twitter.)
8 Hands, 1 Piano! Watch more!
Lenny in da club like…
HAPPY BERNSTEIN 100 EVERYONE!!!!!
On this day in music history: August 24, 1975 - Queen begin recording “Bohemian Rhapsody” at Rockfield Studio 1 near Monmouth, Wales, UK. Written by Freddie Mercury, the band start the process of recording the complicated and intricate song after three weeks of rehearsals. The remaining sessions for the track takes place at four different studios (Roundhouse, SARM (East), Scorpion, and Wessex Studios in London) over the next three weeks that it takes to complete the song. The most complex portion of the track, the multi-layered vocal harmonies sung by Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor, spend anywhere from ten to twelve hours a day, perfecting their parts. Some parts of “Bohemian Rhapsody” feature as many as 180 separate overdubs. Due to the limited number of tracks available on the 24-track master, makes it necessary to bounce the vocal and instrumental tracks up to eight times. In fact, at one point it is necessary to transfer the entire two inch reel to another fresh tape when master begins shedding oxide due to the numerous times the tape is run over the record and playback heads during the tracking and mixing process. When the song is completed, it clocks in at nearly six minutes. When Queen presents the finished track to their UK label EMI Records, they immediately insist that the band edit it down to a more radio friendly length. The band get around this by leaking a tape copy of the song to Capitol Radio DJ Kenny Everett who immediately loves the track, and plays it on his show fourteen times in two days. Public reaction is swift and overwhelmingly positive, forcing EMI to release the record as is. Word of the sensation the record has created in England reaches Paul Drew of RKO Radio in the US, who acquires a dub copy of the still unreleased song. This in turn forces Queen’s US label Elektra Records to release the song as a single, in its complete, unedited form. “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes on to top the UK singles chart for 9 weeks in late 1975, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April of 1976. The record is re-released after Freddie Mercury’s death, returning to the top of the UK singles chart for another five weeks, and is featured in the comedy “Wayne’s World” which puts it back on the US Hot 100, peaking at #2 in May of 1992.
Ella Fitzgerald’s singing voice had such accurate pitch that her musicians said they used it to tune their instruments.
Vivaldi - Magnificat in g minor
Vivaldi’s setting of the Magnificat hymn is surprisingly short and compact, but it is a great display of his vocal and instrumental writing, combining the vibrancy of his concerto-writing with the solemnity of a church choir. It isn’t a grand setting, it’s more intimate, the small choir singing with a chamber orchestra. Each movement has a different emphasis. The opening Magnificat is a dense chord progression, the next movement is more like a dance or festive song, the Misericordia is polyphonic and chromatic, and two movements later it’s contrasted with a stately homophonic Desposuit potentes. The word painting is on the nose with the musical pun over the text “As it was in the beginning” using the same chords that open the piece. We don’t think of Vivaldi as being as interested in counterpoint as we hail Bach for, but Vivaldi closes the work with a dense double fugue. This piece. feels almost like a paradox, it’s small dimensions don’t take away from the larger spiritual emotion that it’s trying to convey. Also, we rarely think of Vivaldi as a sacred composer, this hundreds of concertos and his popular operas overshadow the fact that he was a priest, and I think this Magnificat along with his Gloria prove the critics wrong. He isn’t the one trick pony rehashing the same stuff over and over.
Movements:
1. Magnificat anima mea Dominum
2. Et exultavit spiritus meus
3. Et misericordia ejus
4. Fecit potentiam
5. Deposuit potentes
6. Esurientes
7. Suscepit Israel
8. Sicut locutus est
9. "Gloria Patri…”
Which piece of music is wild enough to do this to Simon Rattle? Click the YouTube link to find out! Were you right? :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcfVVV3fDZw
Hey Sam. What are your thoughts on the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain? I discovered them through their cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit on Jools Holland's Hootenanny one year.
I adore them! Their cover of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is my ringtone :D
I’m also very partial to their Ode To Joy for 1008 Ukuleles, because I think it both acknowledges that this particular instrument is passionately loved by its musicians and allows for audience participation in a way that most concerts of any musical genre don’t.
I’ve often thought in the past four months that I’d like to see a Ukulele Orchestra of Chicago. There are uke groups in the burbs but there’s no urban group that I’ve found, and I think modeling it on them would remind everyone to always have fun with it.
When you overhear someone asking the Music Librarians for help finding the score for “Dido and Anus”
Take A Bow
1.) Margravial Theater Opera House- Bayreuth,Germany
2.) Palais Garnier- Paris,France
3.) Teatro Real De Madrid- Madrid,Spain
4.) Semperoper - Dresden,Germany
5.) Teatro De Liceu- Barcelona,Spain
6.) Teatro Nacional de São Carlos- Lisbon,Portugal
7.) Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma - Rome,Italy
8.) Royal Theater Of Covent Garden- London, England
9.) Bolshoi Theater- Moscow, Moscow
10.) La Scala- Milan,Italy
It turns out that in the music industry, insane perverts have always been the norm.
Why The World Of Classical Music Is Secretly Insane
On this day in music history: February 24, 1973 - “Killing Me Softly With His Song” by Roberta Flack hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, also peaking at #2 on the R&B singles chart on the same date. Written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, it is the second chart topping single for the North Carolina born singer, songwriter and musician. Originally recorded by singer Lori Leiberman, the song is inspired by a poem she writes after seeing singer Don McLean (“American Pie”) perform at The Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood. Flack sees a picture of Leiberman in a magazine article about her and the song while flying from LA to New York. After hearing Leiberman’s version, Flack decides that she wants to record it herself. Her belief in the songs hit potential is confirmed when she performs it live for the first time. In September of 1972 while appearing as Marvin Gaye’s opening act at the Greek Theater, she performs “Killing Me Softly” during her encore and crowds reaction is wildly enthusiastic. After her set, Gaye tells her not to perform the song again live until after she records it. Once in the studio, Flack spends nearly three months fine tuning the song before feeling that it’s ready for release. Released as a single in January of 1973, it is an instant smash. Entering the Hot 100 at #54 on January 27, 1973, it rockets to the top of the chart four weeks later. “Killing Me Softly With His Song” wins three Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female and her second consecutive win for Record Of The Year. Gimbel And Fox also win the award for Song Of The Year. In 1996, The Fugees revive “Killing Me Softly”, reaching #2 (for 3 weeks) on the Billboard Airplay Chart on June 22, 1996, and winning two Grammy Awards for their album “The Score”. Flack’s version of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA, and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
