Saturday, May 1, 2010
Paul McCartney - Here,There And Everywhere (live!)
Make sure you build your song book, before the music disappears
George Harrison My Sweet Lord
George Harrison did such a good job with this song, it lingers somewhere in the universe waiting to be called up, from the other harmonies that exist in space, in the hum and strum of the moon and stars, it lingers waiting for us to enjoy.
The Warsaw Concerto
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The history of the piece is interesting, and since it conveyed to me as a very young child, the pain of war, it is something that I carry in my heart all the time.
The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell. The orchestration was by another Briton, Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the piece, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. The actor, Anton Walbrook, was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, but in fact the music on the soundtrack is played by an uncredited pianist, Louis Kentner.
The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces.
The music was later used in another film, The Sea Wolves (1980), with Addinsell's themes arranged by Roy Budd.
[edit] Appearances in popular culture
The theme of the concerto is borrowed in a popular-music love song whose lyrics include "The world outside will never know..." recorded by The Four Coins.[1]
The theme charted at #18 on UK Singles chart in January 1959, as The World Outside by Ronnie Hilton, a very popular singer in the UK.
Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and the subsequent books in the series as 'the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto'.
José Carreras recorded the Concerto as the opening track on his 1999 Album Pure Passion
In 1999 US Rapper DMX sampled the Concerto on the Single What's my name which was the first release from his US no 1 album ...And Then There Was X
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer, recorded a Latin arrangement of the Warsaw Concerto in 2005.
The Concerto is constantly used in championship figure skating (especially in Japan)
[edit] Notes
^ "The World Outside" lyrics
[edit] External links
Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto Analysis and description of Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
Composers of the Week - Addinsell and Noel Coward
Dangerous Moonlight at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a concerto is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Concerto"
Categories: Piano concertos
Film music
Film soundtracks
1941 works
The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell. The orchestration was by another Briton, Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the piece, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. The actor, Anton Walbrook, was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, but in fact the music on the soundtrack is played by an uncredited pianist, Louis Kentner.
The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces.
The music was later used in another film, The Sea Wolves (1980), with Addinsell's themes arranged by Roy Budd.
[edit] Appearances in popular culture
The theme of the concerto is borrowed in a popular-music love song whose lyrics include "The world outside will never know..." recorded by The Four Coins.[1]
The theme charted at #18 on UK Singles chart in January 1959, as The World Outside by Ronnie Hilton, a very popular singer in the UK.
Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and the subsequent books in the series as 'the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto'.
José Carreras recorded the Concerto as the opening track on his 1999 Album Pure Passion
In 1999 US Rapper DMX sampled the Concerto on the Single What's my name which was the first release from his US no 1 album ...And Then There Was X
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer, recorded a Latin arrangement of the Warsaw Concerto in 2005.
The Concerto is constantly used in championship figure skating (especially in Japan)
[edit] Notes
^ "The World Outside" lyrics
[edit] External links
Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto Analysis and description of Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
Composers of the Week - Addinsell and Noel Coward
Dangerous Moonlight at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a concerto is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Concerto"
Categories: Piano concertos
Film music
Film soundtracks
1941 works
Friday, April 30, 2010
Music through the years
I am fascinated with the growth of music, especially from the pre- Great War Years, thru the war, and into the 50's to Les Paul and onward, to the Beatles, and then to the few real musical artists beyond. It was music, and the sounds of music, whether it was voices used as instruments, or the instruments themselves.
Melody, point, and counterpoint, stretch and shrink, echo and control, beauty reigned in the sounds. Please take a look at my Facebook profile page and see the songs of the Greatest Generation and how exuberant, how loving they were....how we progressed to the joy of the end of the war, and the music broke all bounds and went wild! But, it remained, MUSIC!
In my mind, music can cry, "The Warsaw Concerto", it can tell a story like this piece does, without words, a story of such sadness, that the tears came to my eyes, as a young person, maybe 10 years old, imagining the plight of human beings, who lived in this great music. Music, should lift our spirits, make us want to accomplish something in the light and joy of life, even when telling a sad story, the goal of music has never changed. It is in the song of the universe, the planets, and the stars, and we should respect this ability we have to use music to lift our lives, to bring joy, happiness, help us evaluate with love and respect what we are doing and where we are going. Hopefully listening to the music we had, will bring us back to real music., there is so much more to discover.
Melody, point, and counterpoint, stretch and shrink, echo and control, beauty reigned in the sounds. Please take a look at my Facebook profile page and see the songs of the Greatest Generation and how exuberant, how loving they were....how we progressed to the joy of the end of the war, and the music broke all bounds and went wild! But, it remained, MUSIC!
In my mind, music can cry, "The Warsaw Concerto", it can tell a story like this piece does, without words, a story of such sadness, that the tears came to my eyes, as a young person, maybe 10 years old, imagining the plight of human beings, who lived in this great music. Music, should lift our spirits, make us want to accomplish something in the light and joy of life, even when telling a sad story, the goal of music has never changed. It is in the song of the universe, the planets, and the stars, and we should respect this ability we have to use music to lift our lives, to bring joy, happiness, help us evaluate with love and respect what we are doing and where we are going. Hopefully listening to the music we had, will bring us back to real music., there is so much more to discover.
Les Paul - Chasing Sound!
Les Paul - Chasing Sound
This is a fabulous ! Les Paul's story can't be beat, I posted it on my Facebook account, where you can watch it, but you can buy it here, if you want to. When, "How High the Moon hit the jukes, and the radio, Wow! We went wild and it blasted out of every juke box at our hangout.....in those days in Framingham, Mass., it was on our main street, and it was called, The Wellworth."
This is a fabulous ! Les Paul's story can't be beat, I posted it on my Facebook account, where you can watch it, but you can buy it here, if you want to. When, "How High the Moon hit the jukes, and the radio, Wow! We went wild and it blasted out of every juke box at our hangout.....in those days in Framingham, Mass., it was on our main street, and it was called, The Wellworth."
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