http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU&feature=aso

Benjamin Britten - A Ceremony of Carols

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3s-Q1zy ... re=related

A Christmas Festival with the Boston Pops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49qI0BwjXSY

The Chicago Symphony Brass, led by Dale Clevenger, Michael Mulcahy and Mark Ridenour.

Gabrieli three movements from Sacrae symphoniae
Bash, arr. Crees Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582
Grainger, arr. Higgins Lincolnshire Posey
Sir Edward Elgar Nimrod, from Enigma Variations
Wagner, arr. Jeurissen Tristan Fantasy (for six horns)
Reveultas, arr. Roberts Sensemaya
Prokofiev, arr Krienes Three Scenes from Romeo and Juliet

Encores were:
Grainger Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
Sir William Walton Crown Imperial

http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2010/ ... y-program/

WSP: Red Rocks, CO. - 6/26/2010 2nd Set:

Really gets rolling from the second song on:

Surprise Valley > Hatfield > Surprise Valley > Driving Song > Arlene > Driving Song....

Magnificent run of songs and improv jamming..

Finally got the masterful WSP - 7/15/2010 Chicago Theatre show out of the disc player, played that show so much Shay would sing along to "Wondering" & "Blackout Blues"... "falling in and out of bars on my own...pick my head up off the ground"...

Ha!!! Ever play "Big Wooly Mammoth" for Shay?? That's another grooving song.

Seamus wrote:Ha!!! Ever play "Big Wooly Mammoth" for Shay?? That's another grooving song.

I have, she doesnt like that one yet,

Driving Song, Climb to Safety and All Time Low are others she likes. But she always asks for "head up off the ground" (her name for "Blackout Blues")

There's a sweet corn princess smiling through the words on the glass / Remember we stopped for tamales last time?

Lots of good food lyrics in Widespread Panic songs. I am going to teach my son, Jack, to make biscuits one of these days just so I can tell folks he's been cooking in the kitchen, whompin' up some biscuits for us all. Don't think I have been to a Widespread show since before Michael Houser passed. Probably did 40 shows throughout the Midwest and a few of the New Years runs in ATL down at the Fox, and almost proposed to my wife backstage in Ann Arbor in the late 90s after picking up her ring on the way out of Chicago to the show (but probably better that I passed, as I'm not sure that would have been her idea of a special moment). Glad to hear they are still rocking it.

jimswside wrote: But she always asks for "head up off the ground" (her name for "Blackout Blues")

LOL!!! That's too cute.

Panis Angelicus - Luciano Pavarotti and Sting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdN0LBS ... re=related

Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOk6njdUACI

Lady Jane by the Rolling Stones...blast from the past.

Love that dulcimer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41K5Sqob2SQ

"Up On The Ridge" by Joe Ely, an undiscovered (by mainstream media) Texas troubador who has been giving us great music for 30 years. He has also employed some great guitarists in his band, like the late Jesse Taylor and David Grissom, and Teye on flamenco guitar.

Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F, Opus 90
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim

Paul Hindemith, Symphony: Mathis der Maler

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart

The King Is Dead -- newest album by The Decemberists. NPR is currently streaming the entire album:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132436422 ... ng-is-dead

danimalarkey wrote:The King Is Dead -- newest album by The Decemberists. NPR is currently streaming the entire album:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132436422 ... ng-is-dead

oooh....thanks for the heads up!! Staring at my tix for the show next month as I type.

Phish - Live at Alpine Valley 8/14/2010

I was there in the third row. Great show!!

Waltzes, Songs & Festive Scenes
The Metropolitan Opera Brass

1. Waltz Suite - R. Strauss (from Der Rosenkavalier)
2. Toccata - C. Monteverdi (from L'Orfeo)
3. Opening Scene and Witch's Ride - E. Humperdinck (from Hansel and Gretel)
4. Letter Song "Ich Soll ihn niemals, niemals mehr sehn" - E. Korngold (from Die Kathrin)
5. “Soave sia il vento” - W.A. Mozart (from Così fan tutte)
6. "Bei Maennern, welche leibe fuehlen" - W.A. Mozart (from Die Zauberflöte)
7. Vilja Lied and Waltz - F. Lehar (from The Merry Widow)
8. Champagne Song - J. Strauss Jr. (from Die Fledermaus)
9. Song to the Moon - A. Dvorak (from Rusalka)
10. Final Trio - R. Strauss (from Der Rosenkavalier)
11. Polonaise – N. Rimsky-Korsakov (from Christmas Eve)
12. Santa and Isolde - B. Adolphe

boudreaulicious wrote:

danimalarkey wrote:The King Is Dead -- newest album by The Decemberists. NPR is currently streaming the entire album:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/03/132436422 ... ng-is-dead

oooh....thanks for the heads up!! Staring at my tix for the show next month as I type.

Hah... I'm 13 min in to the record and figured I'd post the link here!

Glad to see some other fans...

streaming Radio Free Texas on internet radio

a very different type of "country" than the Nashville garbage

Early Bowie. Been a long time, a different world ago.

Red Norvo, Congo Blues off the album of the same name.

I saw this posted on another website about nine months ago. I revisit it from time to time. Over the holidays, I saw a bunch of Bing Crosby specials. He also had a stroll and sing style.



The first time I saw the trololo song video, I wondered if anyone might mistake this for a foreign language instead of a series of vocalizations. It is definitely a unique piece. There are many tribute and satirical videos of this song and singer on youtube. This singer's son wasn't happy his Dad was being made fun of. However, the singer has been interviewed extensively since his rediscovery on the internet and seems pleased to be recognized.

Regards,

I like Lennon's "Stand by Me" better than the original. So sue me.

Glenn Miller, Stairway to the Stars, Ray Eberle on vocals.

I like Lennon's "Stand by Me" better than the original. So sue me.

Crazy talk on several levels.

Vitesse98 wrote:

I like Lennon's "Stand by Me" better than the original. So sue me.

Crazy talk on several levels.

I just listened to The Imagine Project by Herbie Hancock and "friends"... first on the disc was Lennon's Imagine, as performed with P!NK, Seal, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, Konono N°1, & Oumou Sangare. Talk about butchering a classic. I can't say much for The Times They Are A'Changin', either. (This version.)

I washed it all down with Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes by Guided by Voices. And now for my cigarette.

Pie Lady wrote:

Vitesse98 wrote:

I like Lennon's "Stand by Me" better than the original. So sue me.

Crazy talk on several levels.

I just listened to The Imagine Project by Herbie Hancock and "friends"... first on the disc was Lennon's Imagine, as performed with P!NK, Seal, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, Konono N°1, & Oumou Sangare. Talk about butchering a classic. I can't say much for The Times They Are A'Changin', either. (This version.)

I washed it all down with Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes by Guided by Voices. And now for my cigarette.

The first to do a song or make a dish, and thus (many times) to create the "classic" version, frequently sets in stone our notion of the right way to do the tune or the food. If your mom put beans in the chili, then classic chili contains beans; if your first taste of papaya salad was on Argyle, then that's the way a papaya salad should be done; if you grew up on thin crust, then that's the only way pizza should be made. Being the first does not mean being the best (that's obvious, right?), and I'm not saying William Shatner did Bob Dylan any favors by performing covers of his work, but there is a tyranny of the perceived "classic" that can challenge appreciation new takes.

David Hammond wrote:I'm not saying William Shatner did Bob Dylan any favors by performing covers of his work

However, his rendition of Pulp's "Common People" was great


Pie Lady: I think the worst cover I've ever heard in my life is the version of "Imagine" done by A Perfect Circle. Some things should just be left alone I think, maybe not because they couldn't be made any better, but because the potential exists for them to be so much worse.