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Aaron Copeland, Arnold Bax, David Riniker, Edward Elgar, Erik Satie, Ferde Grofe, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Ravel, music, Ottorino Respighi, Sergei Prokofiev, Tristram Cary, Warrigal, youtube
Playlist and Digital Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZeT07rqlU&feature=related
Ottorino Respighi The Pines Of Rome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FWq17CT6Cs&feature=fvst
Igor Stravinsky The Firebird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU&feature=related
Erik Satie Gymnopedie No. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBgwk98ZPuI
Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgwr3wrenkQ
Jean Sibelius Finlandia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOAqIPZQZPg
Arnold Bax Symphony No. 3 “Lento”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3sd2BAxys
Sergei Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PUHz4OF4w
Ferde Grofe Sunrise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6CnG5dmvM&feature=related
Aaron Copeland Fanfare For The Common Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZFvKNeo6w&feature=related
Tristram Cary The Lady Killers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4YpibbJFoM
Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGguL9inhEk
Jerry Goldsmith & David Riniker Basic Instinct Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAOglLC2qDQ
George Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_mLbKlF7Co
George Gershwin Concerto In F “Allegro Agitato”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcEeL15jkc
Edward Elgar Land Of Hope And Glory
Keywords: Ottorino Respighi, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Jean Sibelius, Arnold Bax, Sergei Prokofiev, Ferde Grofe, Aaron Copeland, Tristram Cary, Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, David Riniker, George Gershwin, Edward Elgar
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Vent-free appliances in bedrooms should be a wall hung
heater and must be under 10,000 btu’s. This is the time we are motivated by weather to shuffle around our clothes and acquire a different round of attire on stand-by. Your redecoration must involve the rearrangement of some things, and also the elimination of other useless items.
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What a fabulous rich set of relationships have developed through this musical sharing with the maestro Warrigal. I swear Warrigal … well I do although I try not very occasionally … you are a maestro of swing and rock and jazz and blues, I bet even bubblegum.
Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is most usually in my experience on a (vinyl) recording with ‘An American in Paris’ and when I was trading vinyl – and ended with innumerable versions – my friend whose little ground floor Commission flat I shared for a while and I would enjoy listening to and comparing the versions sessions. I always recall when I start to think about it that her immediate neighbour had a severe breakdown in that time frame and I hope we were considerate with the volume. Pertinently, not to blame. Not the Gershwin, not the repeated playing (different versions) among other items of the Strauss ‘Blue Danube’ (cripes).
Hearing the clarinet opening ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ was the ultimate joy, well perhaps along with interpreting the traffic in ‘American in Paris’, but what a mind blowing (as well as clarinet blowing) and individually distinctive range of expression has been invested in one glissando, eh. The power of a creative thought to transform the way we communicate … in o, so many different ways, o great Gershwin.
Thanks again, Waz. 🙂
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I see that Hubert Parry will pop up again tonight Warrigal. His Psalm 122 will be played tonight at THE WEDDING. I was glad: The coronation anthem.
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I didn’t watch but I’d put money Jerusalem was in there somewhere too.
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Good artwork at the top. Very very clever. Big Tick.
Yes William Blake the Londoner.
Last night at The Proms, is great television–with The Albert Hall as a venue…..Jerusalem always gets a guernsey.
The web is a fascinating place. I hadn’t heard that version by ELP before, so I looked in Wikipedia, for a trip down memory lane, knowing that a lot of those musicians were interlaced with other bands. And then spent half an hour in mournful nostalgia. Mournful, because it’s all gone. Except for the recordings, of course.
The Isle of Wight got a mention too. There was talk of getting together with Hendrix–but he died.
I mentioned this on Unleashed once, many moons ago, to Doc Mercury I think (where is he BTW)….I bought a set of drums when I fancied myself as a musician….and I got them from Mitch Mitchell; Hendrix’s drummer (before he was really famous). I think that he was with Georgie Fame. I didn’t know him, but was told about them (the drums for sale)–so went off to West London, Hounslow comes to mind, and squeezed them in a mates van. I lived at 21 Colville Terrace then; renting a 3rd story flat, just off The Portobello Rd. Oh it was fantastic there, in the sixties. One could get stoned just breathing in the air around Notting Hill!
Anyway a few paradiddles and rim-shots later, I realised that it was only the neighbours that would ever be interested in my prowess. And that was to tell me to cool-it-man, so they could sleep all day (it was Portobello). So I sold them on: 15 quid I think.
I know that T2 “hung” around that area, but years later, methinks.
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Well T2? HAVE YOU GONE DEAF?
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Oh, so YOU were the mid-morning phantom paradiddler!
Not sure what year you’re talking about, but it maybe a decade or so before the Notting Hill Gate area became my ‘home away from home’… Wherever my squat happened to be in Greater London, I’d always travel to NHG in the evenings for Matilda’s; however, I also spent time in more than one squat in streets just off the Portobello Road… Must say it always had a great atmosphere, but I never felt like busking there; busking above ground rips the hell out of your throat ’cause you’ve no acoustics to help amplify your voice. I believe the sci-fi novelist, Michael Moorcock lives around there somewhere…
Did I tell you, Jayell, that I’ve recently been in contact with Phil Rebe… the banjo picker from Perth who used to run the folk club? Am trying to arrange a visit to WA, but funds are in short supply… I’m hoping that maybe my insurance claim will be settled before christmas; it seems to be taking forever already.
I’m impatient to get started on my next book, “Matilda’s”… all about my time as a London and international busker…
🙂
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Yes, it was Matilda’s that I was referring to….I assumed that you knew the area, even if you didn’t live there. I was in Colville Terrace in 1967.
I worked in Buckingham Gate, St James, for The British Airports Authority. I had worked at Heathrow for The Ministry of Aviation, but when they formed The BAA, they gave people the choice of staying with The Ministry or going with the new entity.
Buckingham Gate was a quiet little street at one end with The Palace as a backdrop. I fancied working in town, so applied to go to HQ.
It was boring though, apart from the lunch breaks. So I left; worked for cash in the giant underground car-park at Marble Arch── and then went to live in Mallorca.
You would know the tunnel between the car-park and Marble Arch Tube. I seem to remember you saying that you busked there. Many did.
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Good luck with your book, BTW.
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Thanks Jayell…
When I arrived in London, the UK had about 1.5 million unemployed; as you all know, I took to busking and was fortunate enough to be adaptable enough to be able to survive as such for several years, but when I eventually met my wife (in Matilda’s, of course!) I tried hard to ‘straighten up and fly right’…
Only actual ‘jobs’ I had in London were as a porter for the Institute of Physics in Belgrave Sq; and as a maker of hand-crafted belts for Paris House in Bruton St W1 (Inside the same building as Norman Hartnell, and also ‘by appointment’; we at Paris House, also made the ‘bodice’ or ‘belt’ for Princess Di’s wedding dress!)
Both of these jobs were very poorly paid; I remember distinctly that the pay at Paris House was 17 pounds per week less than I’d been getting on the dole… but at the time I took the job just to be working; daft really, I could have earned a week’s wages in a couple of days busking if I’d wanted to go back to it… but it was associated with a lifestyle I was very much trying to escape… The one day I decided to go busking again – in order to ‘say goodbye’ to it as I’d already arranged my trip to Oz – is the one day that I not only was caught (by a real ‘rookie’ cop, I might add!) and actually had to pay a fine… I think I kept the paperwork as a souvenir and I kept it until my latest house move, when I threw out a LOT of rubbish… (though it’s amazing how much rubbish I stilll managed to keep too!)
But by now England had 4 million unemployed and was groaning under the tyranny of the Iron Maiden… After two of my brothers died within a few months of each other, I decided there was little holding me in the UK and that, indeed it seemed to my grief-stricken imagination as if the UK was trying to kill off my family anyway… (my Grandmother and John Lennon also died that same year! Not that I’m related to the latter in any way; but I’m sure you understand that EVERYONE in the UK felt like the Beatles were part of the family… As kids we four brothers would mime to the beatles’ records with tennis raquets… and I’ll bet you did the same!) so I migrated to Adelaide, where my (now ‘ex-‘) missus came from.
Just missed out on Hendrix… when I was in Bedford he’d been through the place, even hung around the town, went to pubs and discos etc with the younger crowd… and played a concert… just a month before I was there! Made me sick to meet so many people who’d actually met him!
Was never quite in the right place to see Led Zep, either; when they were in France I was in London and vice-versa… but I did get to meet John Paul Jones and even ‘jam’ with him a bit! (The story will most certainly be included in ‘Matilda’s’…)
Talking about the ‘Gate always brings back so many memories… Hope I didn’t ‘dribble’ too much… Thanks again Jayell.
🙂
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Pleasure to listen in, gentlemen 🙂
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So you ended up in sunny Adelaide bringing about the birth of the Burnside Refugees, every door that closes another opens…:)
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“Always look on the bright side…” eh, Hung?
😉
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Well, in the end, I had to migrate, Hung… you see, it became impossible to sleep ’cause some phantom parradiddler kept playing the drums in the middle of the flamin’ day!
(Just kidding JL!)
😉
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Actually I liked the joke. Very good.
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Here’s an old friend/client from way back. I’m skipping a couple of years from my Spanish sojourn here….to about 72ish.
My shop was at 559 Kings Rd, and she and Malcolm had a shop at Worlds End, Kings Rd–about 600 meters away. We used to do barter.
Trouble is it was hard to choose anything that I liked. Most of the jeans and shirts had chains and rips, before it became really fashionable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/apr/25/vivienne-westwood-video
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I didn’t dig this out BTW.It was on ABC, when I was drifting through, looking for someone to argue with. I found a patsy…..I think?
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I was never a ‘punk’ Jayell… I just used to look that way ’cause I was poor… (and if my guitar playing sounded ‘punk’ at all, it was just ’cause I was a lousy guitarist!) I have a feeling, however, that Johnny Rotten et al used to model themselves on the buskers I used to hang out with…
Interesting monologue though… who was that?
🙂
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‘ That’,was Vivienne Westwood. She was Malcolm McLaren’s partner, they had a shop down the road from me, in Chelsea. The shop was called SEX at one point. Mclaren was The Sex pistols manager, and manipulator. She is now a respected and revered fashion designer (icon).
They designed and stocked punk clothes before it was fashionable.I’d like to say that I admired it and thought that it would catch on. However I though it rubbish at the time and am truly surprised to see young Australian rugby players and young economists on TV with punk hair styles 39 years later. And Hollywood actors.
David Astle even? Now don’t ask me who he is T2.
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Okay Jayell, I won’t ask you who David Astle is…
Anyone else know?
😉
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Mrs M worked night shift last night, so she woke today with ‘Gymnopedie’ followed by ‘Finlandia’ and ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’.
Thanks Warrigal.
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You sound so sincere Big M 🙂
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Of course!
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I assume you weren’t on nights as well Sister?
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In white satin?
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Great song JL, what are your memories of it?
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I can’t linger, cos I’m just going out; but will write a few pop-culture stories one day.
The Mellatron and long hair, plus a vibe when the Moodys sort of semi-boler-oed. To pinch something from another current post. They seemed to exude that feel good exhilaration.
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Nah, I worked Tuesday to Friday, 12 hour nights, Mrs M just did Sunday night.
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Hung, that’s part of BigM’s charm that he’s able to sound sincere when he says that he likes Finlandia…
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Good on him H
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Wow!
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I’ve just listened again to “Land Of Hope And Glory”, and I’d wager that Jules and T2 get the same goosebumps.
And you can’t have “Land Of Hope And Glory” without its concomitant “Jerusalem”, here played to the acme of synth camp grandeur by Emerson Lake & Palmer, still my favourite version. Music by Hubert Parry and those goosebumping lyrics by non other than, Ladies and Gentlemen I give you, William Blake, the scribe of Albion’s soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dismZw6I2k
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Haven’t heard this in sooooooooooooooo long…
Even my goosebumps have goosebumps!
Thanks Warrigal!
🙂
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I haven’t commented on the music for a while. I used to sit here on Fridays waiting for students to turn up, and painting to the music. And then I had to work on Fridays and Saturdays and got distracted from it. I’m looking forward to getting an afternoon of listening in again. Thankyou always Warrigal.
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Sorry but it appears that the Berlin Philharmonic takes exception to the link in the list so try these two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3yeu7lyBk4
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Part 01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseV2L7rE1s
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Part 02
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Very enjoyable.
They all went to school with me (of course). WE had great fun; Ravel and I used to drive through the Hampshire countryside playing his Bolero. It sounded great in quadrophonic 8 track, through the Pioneer speakers in the doors of my BMW 2800. The tweeters on the pillars, just highlighted the higher notes, while the drivers reverberated in the footwells.
Of course 8 track (discrete) was really the only way to play quadraphonic in its true reproduction as one could use all the tape width. Cassettes were useless and most vinyl was matrix which had to decode the frequencies. Of course one could not play the 8 track as normal, because it would not repeat and play backwards, although the motor would reverse (in the stero version). If one played it on a stereo player, one only heard some of the music.
Ravel and I had some good journeys, listening to my old RCA (later called JVC…I think?) quad player.
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I really like the idea of the drivers reverberating in the foot well, but who’s hands are actually on the wheel?
And showing once again what a man ahead of your time you have always been; there you are, you and Ravel in the Beemer, back in the days of eight track, and even then, before computers, you had a couple of “Tweeters” who apparently were able to tear themselves away from their endless social networking to sing the high notes.
Just magic.
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What no cricket?
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Afraid not Hung. About as close as we get here is “Land Of Hope & Glory” which I understand is sung at many sporting fixtures where England’s sporting prowess is on the line.
I’ll see if I can rustle up a “cricket” list for you.
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Was just joshing WM however 11 cricket songs would be a challenge
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It’ll start here;
The rest you’ll have to wait a day or two for.
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Amazing. Great laugh, thanks WM.
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Love this lot, how I could I not, Finlandia, Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, Rhapsody in Blue, Basic Instinct Theme, West Side Story Overture……Igor Sravinsky…
Good for Easter Sunday, Passover or whatever Pagan Feast, or for good old Aussie Public Holidays…
Many thanks, Warrigal.
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Finlandia is lovely, earth shatteringly Finnish, banned from being played during the Russian occupation of Finland.
He also wrote a most beautiful violin concerto. Yet during the last thirty years of his life there was ‘no more’. His wife Aino had to ward off questions about his 8th symphony. He never wrote the eighth. It just wasn’t there. I am chuffed his music is being played so much more lately.
Thanks for your choice again, Waz.
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