What are you listening to? Track 4

[jeriddian]

And the new thread begins with Gustav Holst'sThe Planets, as performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstien. The first movement, Mars, is its most famous movement, and served as inspiration for some music I have been writing.

EDIT: Corrected the Composer's name.:P

[campy]

And the new thread begins with Gustav Mahler's The Planets, as performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstien. The first movement, Mars, is its most famous movement, and served as inspiration for some music I have been writing.

You of course mean Holst, not Mahler.

I'm listening to the march Die Regimentskinder, op. 169 by Julius Fučik. Herbert von Karajan conducting the wind players of the Berlin Philharmonic.

[jeriddian]

And the new thread begins with Gustav Mahler's The Planets, as performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstien. The first movement, Mars, is its most famous movement, and served as inspiration for some music I have been writing.

You of course mean Holst, not Mahler.

I'm listening to the march Die Regimentskinder, op. 169 by Julius Fučik. Herbert von Karajan conducting the wind players of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Oh, geez.......yes, I meant Holst! For some reason I was thinking of Mahler's Titan Symphony for some reason.

[TransWarpDrive]

And the new thread begins with Gustav Mahler's The Planets, as performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstien. The first movement, Mars, is its most famous movement, and served as inspiration for some music I have been writing.

You of course mean Holst, not Mahler.

I'm listening to the march Die Regimentskinder, op. 169 by Julius Fučik. Herbert von Karajan conducting the wind players of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Oh, geez.......yes, I meant Holst! For some reason I was thinking of Mahler's Titan Symphony for some reason.

Not to worry, my friend. We all get confused like that at one time or another. You've got a lot on your mind right now, so don't worry about it...
As for me, I'm listening to Four And One Moore, by the late, great Gerry Mulligan. It's off his album, The Gerry Mulligan Songbook.

[campy]

In the iPod: Mysterious Mountain, op. 132 by Alan Hovhaness. Fritz Reiner conducts the Go City Symphony in a 1958 recording.

[jeriddian]

Felix Mendehlson's String Symphony No. 8, by the London Festival Orchestra, conducted by Ross Popol.

Mendehlson was a child prodigy and wrote 13 String Symphonies in his early teens before he attempted writing full symphonies later on.

[Fireand'chutes77]

Watching Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on YouTube after linking to it from a Washington Post article about Woodstock.

I guess 40 years and literal non-existence at the time of the event do a lot: except for the screechy bit in the middle, Hendrix's version is awesome. It sounds like the kind of thing that'd be really cool in an action movie. I'm also amazed by the 'vocalizations' he's able to tease out of his guitar; for most of the song, it doesn't look like his fingers are even touching the strings!

[TransWarpDrive]

Currently listening to I Was A Fool (To Let You Go) by Barry Manilow; from his 1978 album, Even Now.

[jeriddian]

Watching Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on YouTube after linking to it from a Washington Post article about Woodstock.

I guess 40 years and literal non-existence at the time of the event do a lot: except for the screechy bit in the middle, Hendrix's version is awesome. It sounds like the kind of thing that'd be really cool in an action movie. I'm also amazed by the 'vocalizations' he's able to tease out of his guitar; for most of the song, it doesn't look like his fingers are even touching the strings!

That was the beauty of Hendrix. Of course, I did exist at the time (I was fifteen), and I was totally mesmerized by Hendrix's entire Woodstock performance. I was just starting to play guitar then, and I learned that entire Star Spangled Banner performance myself, although I could never quite get the sounds he got, but then I didn't have the souped up Fender Twin Reverb he used for it, (plus I was playing a cheap guitar, not the customized Fender strat he used). But nobody was trying evoke sound effects out of the guitar like he did. Nobody was trying to play lead riffs like he did. It was completely and excitingly new. I don't remember that song any more, but I can still play Purple Haze note for note.

There is a story that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger went together to see a private filming of his performance in a movie theatre in England. They both thought that their own careers in rock and roll were finished when they heard Hendrix.

[campy]

On radio: San Francisco Opera's production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings the title role, a real-life pirate who became the first doge of Genoa in the 14th century.