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04 Jun 2014, 7:09 pm

Mmmm broccoli! And oranges are refreshing and you don't have to take time to cook them.

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04 Jun 2014, 7:19 pm

I should add to that - I almost bought a bag of oranges today, but when I looked at the label it said, "Florida oranges, color added." EIK! Don't buy that kind.

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04 Jun 2014, 10:05 pm

I never heard of this guy before, but this made me cry for some stupid reason (water is still running out of my eyes). IT was apparently his last concert. His music (and his hands) - beautiful.
The comments on youtube are interesting too.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhRyGeyMYg[/youtube]

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05 Jun 2014, 6:53 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAmC2QCsg4[/youtube]

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05 Jun 2014, 7:14 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60jyPNAUVc[/youtube]

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05 Jun 2014, 7:56 pm

Schubert was a master of songs, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB1LDiwYA9Q
And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6SY2fE-Pk
But it's not all that he wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWzC-qsPtM
And in fact, some of his best works used no words at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvdmimkSqCo

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05 Jun 2014, 10:27 pm

I was relistening to some of those pieces from pages 1-3 today and I managed to stumble on something about Itzak Perlman. I had no idea that he was paralyzed from polio. What a story - apparently at 3 he decided to learn to play the violin, but was rejected by some famous school because he was too small to hold one. So he taught himself (at three!). Then at four he got polio and had severe damage to his legs, but ended up being a child prodigy anyway.

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05 Jun 2014, 10:38 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eLoWm9swbM[/youtube]

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05 Jun 2014, 11:02 pm

Great video, Awake!

Here's something else I stumbled on on YouTube today. I'm not religious, but this stuff is beatuful. Who knew there was a whole tradition of Jewish cantors singing like this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerQOtrS6h0&index=7&list=WL[/youtube]

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06 Jun 2014, 6:42 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDcliAQQKA[/youtube][/quote]

I love Jewish music. It is so rich and often haunting.

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07 Jun 2014, 1:20 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHARBCODSJ0[/youtube]

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07 Jun 2014, 1:58 am

Thank you to everyone for your recent contributions.

"Des Baches Wiegenlied" is so peaceful. I'm sure it could calm a crying baby into a long, resftul sleep.

As for Schubert's Sonata in B-flat major, I especially enjoyed the lively and adventurous third and fourth movements that conclude what must have been one of the last compositions Schubert wrote.

Schubert's String Quartet No. 15... ....extraordinary... a rich, flowing narrative transported me into another world. The quartet is a most welcome addition to the playlist I listen to while reading.

Also, the loud cough from one of the audience members at 15:29 made me laugh... couldn't he have stifled it with his shirt or something? Haha..

Cantor Yoselle Rosenblatt... what a mighty, resonant voice. I can't understand the words, but there's a magnificent emotional depth in his singing.

Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Daria Hovora make a complementary musical pair in this solemn piece, each intuitively aware of the other's role. The cello has the spotlight, but doesn't overpower the reticent, lovely piano.

The sorrowful Chopin piece is one I've heard many times before. The heartfelt piano works of Debussy and Chopin were among the earliest that captivated me when I began listening to classical years ago.

The spontaneity of this thread keeps me curious. One never knows what will surface next.

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07 Jun 2014, 3:28 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAuZJmJ0xU[/youtube]

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07 Jun 2014, 9:27 am

This was written a year before Beethoven's death, meaning he was completely deaf when he composed it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUMuPkm7Ow[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgl2CKLcJhM[/youtube]

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07 Jun 2014, 9:37 am

Time for a double feature!

This is a great little section of music from Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDnv4CMRX0

This is the ultimate piece for solo violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWQjjOxjMs

As Brahms said upon hearing it: "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind"

Awake wrote:

This was written a year before Beethoven's death, meaning he was completely deaf when he composed it.

Posting Beethoven;s 16th quartet are you?? You, sir, have forced my hand. Here's Mahler's 3rd symphony, one of my favorite Mahler works. The final movement (which begins at 1hr 17 minutes) starts off with a direct quotation of the opening theme of the slow movement from Beethoven's 16th quartet (hence the relation).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwFutIcnrU[/youtube]

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