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BBP
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You know, right now I can't really recall (Let's not call Zappa's Bolero cover since I don't have that one) a modern setting of a classical tune that
I truly appreciate and would go back to listening, nothing Ekseption, definitely not the Madness Swan Lake, and I'd rather not hear Dweezil's attempt
at the Carmen either. Even FZ's Habanera gets me cross because he missed the triplets.
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or this disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPmQZYRO5XY
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I just made a few connections there. I've only ever heard that tune as the theme for the Babe movie. Now I've discovered that it's from the finale of
Saint Saens' 3rd Symphony.
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 I love Saint-Saëns, he is my favourite pre-20th century composer
(although he did compose in the twentieth century as well, he got very old). A love manifested my by favourite piece ever, Danse Macabre, but other
faves are:
3rd movement of the Organ symphony
Africa
Phaeton
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Bacchanale from Samson & Delilah
And of course the Carnival of the Animals, the piano concertos, violin concertos, septets etc. My collection of his works is large.
People have often described him as being conservative, but considering he was the first to introduce xylophone and castanettes to orchestra... I just
think he had a bit of bad luck. A prodigy, he started playing piano at age 2, wrote his first composition at age 3, and lived (and composed) well into
his 80s, with such a lengthy career you'll become outdated eventually.
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A twist in this original composer versus popular song theme is the hymn "I Vow to Thee My Country". That tune was first composed as part of the
Jupiter section of The Planets by Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. He himself in 1926 adapted that tune to fit a poem written by Cecil
Spring-Rice in 1908 and voilà, "I Vow to Thee My Country".
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Happens. Danse Macabre was initially a song for piano and tenor, that SS himself turned into a song for tenor and orchestra before he made the piano
version and later turned that into the orchestra version we all know and love. It contained the full words of Cazalis' poem, while if you buy the
orchestra sheet music, the more crude verses are cut out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOSQTELS0Is
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Danse Macabre is one of my very favorite songs. Something one never hears here.
last night, listened to 2.5 hours of september 1980 fz rehearsals. The Blue Light is a slow 'Tex-Mex' rhythm funny. But even better is 25 minutes of
teaching the band 'We're Turning Again', also 'The Radio Is Broken' and the Maddie Told Haddie thing overtop Torture. He was trying to figure out
songs to play overtop or alongside some of his songs. You can tell Ike is hearing We're Turning Again and The Blue Light/ The Radio for the first
time. At one point he can't stop laughing. But the details where Frank describes what he wants: "Like opera but more weasel-y', 'Do it DEVO but in an
upper register and more weasel-y' and Frank uses this high pitch whining voice that is a charicature and very annoying through it as he 'sings' but
this adds a very different effect on these songs. Very sarcastic, very dismissive and annoying. Frank was not happy with his world. Scathing.
here's one of three parts to one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfwkpTc08E&list=UUZFSApBLq28chO...
I'd like to hear the 'deluxe' Porn Wars but will wait on that. Did order Monkees and the Road Tape venue 1 which will arrive asap.
So you'll get an exclusive 'review' here.
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BBP
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Danse Macabre is of particular fame here, since it's used in our famous theme park De Efteling, in its haunted castle and in the fountain show.
Haunted Castle
Fountain Show
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polydigm
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As you can probably tell I've been trying to get my post count up here lately seeing as I am on the verge of 1000 posts. But don't worry, I'll keep on
being a regular after that.
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BBP
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Hey, I can do that too!
Today I watched a Dutch actor and former superstud take a bad plummet in the "torture chamber" in Fort Boyard, earning him 6 weeks of physical
therapy. Waved good-bye to my sister and found an odd micro-cassete-recorder-calculator-combo. Will visit my blind friend tomorrow.
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I'm literally up to my neck in stats marking at the moment. I copped a double batch for the final assignment as some of the markers drop out during
swot vac. I haven't got any exams on so ...
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Visited my friend today, which was cosy. She cooked up nasi. Another friend of hers dropped by, she was on TV that evening so I stayed a bit later
than usual. The return trip was awful: I spent 50 minutes waiting for the train, the one I finally got in was cancelled half-way so I had to take the
slow train to Eindhoven, there, while cycling home, my bicycle chain came off three times.
My friend is not overly careful with where she puts her CDs, which is of course problematic if you're blind: she had a lot of CDs that had lost their
jewelcases and vice versa. She was a bit late in asking me for help to put things straight: she does put braille stickers on each of her jewelcases,
but not on the CDs themselves (or else they won't play), so she would have to play each record first before she can tell what it is.
Now me, I'm not the tidiest person in the world, but my classical CDs are on chronological order by composer birth date.
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I see ...
  
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That was really mean, Poly. You could join my dad in making blind jokes next
time she comes around...
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That's not really my style - it was your explanation about how you organise your CDs that inspired my joke, more than your blind friend's dilemma, if
you see what I mean.
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polydigm
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | | My bicycle has had it. Need to bring it away Monday, for the last time, it can't be saved. |
Sounds like you
meant to post that here. Sorry to hear about your bike. I may have already mentioned it, but I recently got a new bike after not having one for a long
time and I'm loving it.
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Recovering from a migraine overnight and still not feeling too flash. Meanwhile zappa.com is swamped with spam ...
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Hey, did that post disappear too? Strange...
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If you're talking about the one I quoted above, you posted that in the Photos! thread, perhaps inadvertently ... it's still there.
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[zzz]...I'm so sleepy...
at the time I posted that I suppose, but right now I'm sleepy as well. Got up extra early to take out the trash. In addition to the large trash can, I
also brought out my bedroom wastepaper basket. It does have a bag I put in there to facilitate trash removal, but since it's an open basket, it has a
lot of holes in its walls, so the bag inside got ripped up as I pulled it out. Managed to litter quite a bit.
Dragged the rest of my bedroom waste to the little room between kitchen and garden. Had to put down all of it when I found that my father recently has
the habit of locking the doors as well as bar it. It littered some more.
Anyway I got it all out after quite a bit of cleaning and still managed to enjoy breakfast (I'm very sensitive about dirty stuff, can put me off
food), but it's not a good omen for things to come. Perhaps I should hit the sack.
Bad sack!
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