What I said about tuesday’s choice – that when you “mess about” you first of all have to be proficient and secondly must throw your all into it – is supremely evident in today’s video. Also a second chance to play “spot the tune” as there are quite a few included that are most certainly not part of the original overture to Die Fledermaus.
Year: 2020
Gorgeous Songs – Gorgeous Singing
OK – so I admit that I am pushing it a bit to claim that today’s choice is “not the original” version – however, the order of the songs is not the same as the order they were composed and different again from the order at the original performance – so I can just about claim it!!
Early Rock
This daily music post all started because I was challenged to post twenty album covers. I have included excerpts from most up until now – here is another one.
Mellow Maria
Very different to yesterday – I think this is a great arrangement – and some really lovely horn playing on it as well. (actually it is a great CD as a whole)
Rockelbel !?!
There are many examples of “new versions” of music – some simply change the instrumentation; or take a vocal piece and make it instrumental; or change the style; and many other types of change. My next few videos can perhaps be best summed up as “not the original”.
Hear The Rest
There are many musical “fragments” that get so well known that the rest of the work – if not forgotten entirely – is known by far fewer people than know the whole thing. I shared a prime example of that a couple of months ago in Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. Today’s choice is not quite so extreme as folks only knowing the first few bars of that from the film score of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this case it is a whole variation that is well known – Nimrod.
Sunday Theatre
In a week of songs from the shows its appropriate that my Sunday choice should be from one of Gowans and Larsson’s Salvation Army musicals.
Frolics At The Tower
The final Knightswood School production that I was involved with was Yeomen of the Guard – and tonight’s link is to the overture.
Bernstein Being Gentle
From the point of view of “best music” there is no doubt that West Side Story was the number 1 show that I was involved in. I’ve already shared a couple of songs but here is a lovely one for my Friday “gentle” selection.
He Really Was A Happy Fella😂
Returning again to this weeks ‘theme’ I spent the last week before I moved from Glasgow to Bournemouth travelling up to Stirling each evening to play in the pit orchestra for the production of The Most Happy Fella (one of my few professional music gigs).