Many thanks to +The Bruce, Mile High for reminding me of this faboo a cappella caroling session.
Category: Music
Got to catch 'em all, man
This one's for +Kay Hill. Because jazz makes everything good. Bravo.
Siri will answer any question … for the right price
Really, Apple?
(By the way, "Okay, Google" answers the question just fine, routing over to Wikipedia and pulling up the appropriate page. The answer, as it happens, was Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean.")
Siri won’t answer some questions if you’re not subscribed to Apple Music
If you want Siri to answer your questions about the top songs on the charts, you’ll need to sign up for Apple Music first. Users online, including Pandora co-creator and angel investor Tom Conrad,…
If you have a hankering for some good tango music this Friday
My parish is hosting a series of free concerts over the coming months. These are professional musicians, and there's no cost for attending; any donations / offerings made will go fully and directly local homeless and hunger projects.
The performers this month are Carl Algermissen and Ethan Lazarus of Grand Tango (http://www.grandtango.com/), playing the music of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla on the piano and cello, blending tango music with classical and jazz elements.
Alas, I won't be able to go (football game … marching band … etc.), but anyone who's in the south metro Denver area is welcome, and, I believe, will enjoy themselves.
The concert is on Friday, 23 October, at 7pm, at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church (http://gshep.org/content/location).
Upcoming Events | Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
GRAND TANGO AN EVENING OF TANGO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 AT 7 PM
Love the tune, but I can’t quite catch the words
Italian singer Adriano Celentano's catchy 1972 "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is meant to sound like English (from an Italian perspective), but it not actual words, just a gibberish of English phonemes (with a possible occasional "All right!").
It's remarkable, though, how my brain keeps trying to make sense of it all.
(h/t +Boing Boing)
Piano music the old-fashioned way
It's not just instruments that have changed over the centuries, but playing techniques. By looking at instructional handbooks on how to play the piano from the early 19th Century, this woman has discovered how the different techniques lead to actually different musical sounds and impressions. Very cool.
(h/t +Yonatan Zunger)
Playing Mozart’s Piano Pieces as Mozart Did – The New York Times
A music scholar plays classical piano pieces with techniques that 19th-century performers learned, producing a markedly different effect that researchers are studying.
Chew gum to fix ear worms
What does the Wrigley's say?
I'll have to remember this. It would probably help if I also carried gum.
Annoying song stuck in your head? Chew gum
Catchy songs are infectious, so you shouldn’t feel bad if you’ve spent the last six months muttering about being all about that bass. Treatments for this
Class dinner entertained delightfully by the Women’s Blue & White
Class dinner entertained delightfully by the Women’s Blue & White Love the a capella. #PomonaAW15
Exquisite Glee Club concert at Little Bridges
Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills
Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills #PomonaAW15
Now I have a deep desire to read a detailed history of the ever-changing Torchbearers song; have read three versions today
Now I have a deep desire to read a detailed history of the ever-changing Torchbearers song; have read three versions today #PomonaAW15
RIP, Percy Sledge
Classic singer of a classic song. Thank you, sir.
Originally shared by +The Atlantic:
Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman' Captures the Terror of Love http://trib.al/F3omL1i
Percy Sledge’s ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ Captures the Terror of Love
The late singer’s best-known hit portrays one-sided, obsessive infatuation, which is part of what makes it such a classic.
And now, a personal aesthetic comment
Surplus Oom-pah
On the economics and over-supply of adult tuba players. Interesting stuff.
That said, there are a number of high school marching bands that +Kay Hill's competes against that have multiple tubas (or, as illustrated below, Sousaphones), and I wish her school had a few more. Maybe some of the surplus tupists would consider going back to school …
Too Many Tubas
The odds are stacked against these noble brass blowers. A dirty little secret of the orchestral world is that there are far too many tubists.
Why do violins have an F-hole?
For not being scientists, those violin makers were … well, scientists, of the empiricist variety. Cool beans. This one's for +Gloria Hill.
(h/t +DeAnna Knippling)
Tabletop RPGs with background music
Sharing so that I can check this out next time the opportunity arises.
Originally shared by +Scott Randel:
I've been setting up my own playlists for games (the Twilight Zone 40th Anniversary set minus the themes is ideal for horror games), but this site will let me quickly pick appropriate music or ambient sounds for a variety of games. I'll definitely be using it.
Tabletop Audio – Ambiences and Music for Tabletop Role Playing Games
Original, 10 minute ambiences and music for your Tabletop Role Playing Games.
The Star-Spangled Man with a Plan!
I particularly enjoy this middle scene of Captain America: The First Avenger, where he's been turned into the centerpiece of a USO / Bond-Raising campaign. Not only is the imagery perfect, but the song is particularly clever (not to mention ear-wormy):
Who’s strong and brave,
Here to save
The American Way?
Who vows to fight
Like a man for what’s right
Night and day?
Who will campaign door-to-door
For America,
Carry the flag shore-to-shore
For America?
From Hoboken to Spokane,
The Star Spangled Man
With a Plan!
We can’t ignore
There’s a threat and a war
We must win!
Who’ll hang a noose
On the goose-
Stepping goons from Berlin?
Who will redeem,
Heed the call
For America,
Who’ll rise or fall,
Give his all
For America?
Who’s here to prove that we can?
The Star Spangled Man
With a Plan!
Stalwart and steady
And true,
… See how this guy can shoot,
… We tell ya, there’s no substitute!
Forceful and ready to defend the
Red, White, and Blue!
Who’ll give the Ax-
-is the sack,
And is smart as a fox?
… Far as an eagle will soar!
Who’s making A-
-dolph afraid
To step out of his box?
… He knows what we’re fighting for!
Who waked the giant that napped
In America?
We know it’s no-one but Cap-
-tain America!
Who’ll finish what they began?
Who’ll kick the Krauts to Japan?
The Star Spangled Man
With a Plan!
… Who’s strong and brave,
… here to save
… the American Way?
(Music by Alan Menken; lyrics by David Zippel)
RT @PerlmanOfficial You may see the horizon..
Bass Calumny
This one's for +Gloria Hill and +Kay Hill.
Originally shared by +Marlo Angelo Tito:
Nothin' but Treble
Ba-dumm-tss…
Have a great #Punday , G+! 😀
It’s amazing how difficult it …
It’s amazing how difficult it is to hear “Rhapsody in Blue” and NOT think of United Airlines.