What are you listening to? December 2022
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axolotl
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Glad you survibed.
Ojai Sam
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Yes, that can be a serious mallety.
Ojai Sam
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Paul Whiteman - "Great Gershwin" (1956)
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
On this album, Paul Whiteman revisited "Rhapsody In Blue" 44 years after "The King Of Jazz" offered its first public performance. This time around Earl Wild very capably fills the piano chair that the composer occupied at the premiere. Wild himself personifies the crossover between jazz and classical that Gershwin had pioneered, performing and recording masterfully in both genres.
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
On this album, Paul Whiteman revisited "Rhapsody In Blue" 44 years after "The King Of Jazz" offered its first public performance. This time around Earl Wild very capably fills the piano chair that the composer occupied at the premiere. Wild himself personifies the crossover between jazz and classical that Gershwin had pioneered, performing and recording masterfully in both genres.
axolotl
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I'm out on this one. I can't marimba any more puns.
Zeeba Neighba
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Choir of King’s College Cambridge - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
My traditional Christmas Eve listening
My traditional Christmas Eve listening
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
My Spotify Christmas playlist:
Somebody must like traditional Pop holiday music. It has almost 950 likes.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Now, I'm in on this popular non-secret.
Nickyboy
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That Time-Life compilation is THE compilation.My Spotify Christmas playlist:
Somebody must like traditional Pop holiday music. It has almost 950 likes.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Ojai Sam
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Chu-Fang Huang - Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 13 (2008)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) left behind an astonishing 555 keyboard sonatas. Rather than have a single artist climb this mountain, Naxos Records had the bright idea of commissioning 25 different artists. Chu-Fang Huang was an inspired choice. Her introspective, reflective style suits the material perfectly. In her words:
“If you want to crack the code, send the right kind of message, the right kind of emotions to your listener you must understand through the notes, the chords, the melody, what the composer is trying to say. I realized what a great world I’d gotten into, the great emotions and how affecting and touching those things can be."
BG Independent News shares her background from her birth in China:
"The story of Huang’s own career began before she even touched a keyboard. The only child of working parents, she was left to her own devices as a preschooler. So she turned to learning to read and do math. When she entered school at 6 she was ready to help her fellow students learn and willing to correct her teachers. This “goofy” behavior prompted her teachers to tell her parents that young Chu-Fang needed an outlet for all her energy.
So they asked her what she wanted to do. She had seen a pianist on TV playing with an orchestra. “I thought it was cool, so I said that’s what I want to do.” At the time, buying a piano, even an upright, was “a huge investment,” she said. “To this day I’m grateful that they took child’s word and committed to it.” And her parents demanded commitment in return. They insisted that until she was 18 she would stick to it.
“There were tears and times I wanted to stop,” Huang said. Those arguments continued well into her teen years, and spanned continents, as she moved to the United States to study. Huang had success, winning competitions. “Everything came so easily,” she said “I won all the competitions I entered. When you get something without any struggle, any challenge, you take it for granted.”
on the Sam-O-Meter. As a child. Chu-Fang wanted to become a lawyer. Thank goodness she wised up. 
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) left behind an astonishing 555 keyboard sonatas. Rather than have a single artist climb this mountain, Naxos Records had the bright idea of commissioning 25 different artists. Chu-Fang Huang was an inspired choice. Her introspective, reflective style suits the material perfectly. In her words:
“If you want to crack the code, send the right kind of message, the right kind of emotions to your listener you must understand through the notes, the chords, the melody, what the composer is trying to say. I realized what a great world I’d gotten into, the great emotions and how affecting and touching those things can be."
BG Independent News shares her background from her birth in China:
"The story of Huang’s own career began before she even touched a keyboard. The only child of working parents, she was left to her own devices as a preschooler. So she turned to learning to read and do math. When she entered school at 6 she was ready to help her fellow students learn and willing to correct her teachers. This “goofy” behavior prompted her teachers to tell her parents that young Chu-Fang needed an outlet for all her energy.
So they asked her what she wanted to do. She had seen a pianist on TV playing with an orchestra. “I thought it was cool, so I said that’s what I want to do.” At the time, buying a piano, even an upright, was “a huge investment,” she said. “To this day I’m grateful that they took child’s word and committed to it.” And her parents demanded commitment in return. They insisted that until she was 18 she would stick to it.
“There were tears and times I wanted to stop,” Huang said. Those arguments continued well into her teen years, and spanned continents, as she moved to the United States to study. Huang had success, winning competitions. “Everything came so easily,” she said “I won all the competitions I entered. When you get something without any struggle, any challenge, you take it for granted.”
on the Sam-O-Meter. As a child. Chu-Fang wanted to become a lawyer. Thank goodness she wised up.
Zeeba Neighba
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Paul Hindemith - Mathis der Maler - Symphonie (Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker)
Zeeba Neighba
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Nope
axolotl
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That's dope
Ojai Sam
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Various Artists - Star Spangled Rhythm (soundtrack rec. 1942, Sandy Hook 1981)
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
Most of the studios released big flag waving musicals during WWII. "Star Spangled Rhythm" was Paramount's entry and they threw in virtually every star on the lot, with Bob Hope serving as master of ceremonies. The razor thin plot was led by Eddie Bracken but the big names were reserved for the skits included on this album:
Fred MacMurray
Franchot Tone
Ray Milland
Alan Ladd
Macdonald Carey
Marjorie Reynolds
Susan Hayward
William Bendix
Jerry Colonna
Songs were offered by:
Dorothy Lamour
Paulette Goddard
Veronica Lake
Arthur Treacher
Mary Martin
Dick Powell
Betty Hutton
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
The socko finale was Bing Crosby's performance of "Old Glory", a wartime tune by Harold Arlen with interpolations of the Pledge of Allegiance and some patriotic speechifying.
It's all a lot of fun. There was never an official release, perhaps due to licensing issues. The Sandy Hook imprint of Radiola Records fills the gap admirably.
Paulette, Dorothy and Veronica singing "A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-A-Boo Bang"
Vinyl Rip Of The Day.
Most of the studios released big flag waving musicals during WWII. "Star Spangled Rhythm" was Paramount's entry and they threw in virtually every star on the lot, with Bob Hope serving as master of ceremonies. The razor thin plot was led by Eddie Bracken but the big names were reserved for the skits included on this album:
Fred MacMurray
Franchot Tone
Ray Milland
Alan Ladd
Macdonald Carey
Marjorie Reynolds
Susan Hayward
William Bendix
Jerry Colonna
Songs were offered by:
Dorothy Lamour
Paulette Goddard
Veronica Lake
Arthur Treacher
Mary Martin
Dick Powell
Betty Hutton
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
The socko finale was Bing Crosby's performance of "Old Glory", a wartime tune by Harold Arlen with interpolations of the Pledge of Allegiance and some patriotic speechifying.
It's all a lot of fun. There was never an official release, perhaps due to licensing issues. The Sandy Hook imprint of Radiola Records fills the gap admirably.
Paulette, Dorothy and Veronica singing "A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-A-Boo Bang"
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