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krj
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response 59 of 67:
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Dec 24 05:44 UTC 1999 |
NP: Dan Crary, "Christmas Guitar." Bluegrass guitar. The idea of this
seemed too Musak-y to tolerate, but I was getting to like it as I was
hanging out at Elderly Instruments today so I brought it home, and Leslie
loves this style of guitar playing.
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sspan
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response 60 of 67:
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Dec 26 01:15 UTC 1999 |
oh... did anyone mention Spinal Tap's 'Christmas with the devil'?
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krj
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response 61 of 67:
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Nov 24 01:07 UTC 2000 |
In our house, Thanksgiving marks the official opening of Christmas music
season. NP: "A Roman Christmas," a collection of Italian concertos and
cantatas on the Naxos label. This material all dates from around 1700.
The Alessandro Scarlatti cantata is clearly for Christmas, and the
Corelli concerto was designed to be the background music for shepherd
plays at Christmas. The brief liner notes say the rest of the music is
associated with the holiday, but I really don't hear it. To my uneducated
ear, if you plopped this disc in the player in June, you'd say, "Nice baroque
album." $7, like all Naxos discs.
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dbratman
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response 62 of 67:
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Nov 24 18:40 UTC 2000 |
#1 Christmas disc in this house: "We Three Kings", by the Roches.
Baroque music, specifically Christmas-oriented or not, works well too.
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krj
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response 63 of 67:
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Dec 4 00:58 UTC 2000 |
NP: "Carols at Christmas," Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
This 1998 album might be my favorite of the four? Prior Christmas
albums, if only because it's live, and also exceptionally well
recorded. Besides Prior's voice (with lots of harmony support)
you also get the odd jazz riff (derived from Charpentier ?!?) and
some singing from Rosie Kemp on two songs; I assume Rosie is
Maddy's daughter.
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arianna
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response 64 of 67:
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Jul 19 05:37 UTC 2001 |
One of my favs is "I wonder as I wonder."
Toss in there the entirety of Menotti's opera "Amahl and The Night Visitors."
Fun trivia: "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" from Handel's Messiah was
originally an diddy Handel wrote called "No, di voi non vo fidarmi" (No,
never will I trust you), and in a time crimp, trying to get the piece done
for the date it had been commissioned, he wiped it free of its lyrics and
put the new (and present) text in place of the old. I got to perform the
original, "No, di voi," while at Interlochen, my first summer at camp
('94) with the High School Women's Choir.
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dbratman
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response 65 of 67:
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Jul 24 05:35 UTC 2001 |
I'd like to hear that sometime.
I know, of course, (and prefer) the original words to the US National
Anthem, "To Anacreon in Heaven".
At one time I was pleased to be able to unearth the original words of
the Mendelssohn work later adapted and labeled "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing". The original is a hymn to Gutenberg.
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orinoco
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response 66 of 67:
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Jul 24 20:40 UTC 2001 |
I'd be curious to read that. Do you still have the lyrics about Gutenberg?
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dbratman
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response 67 of 67:
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Jul 25 18:13 UTC 2001 |
somewhere ...
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