Cafe at the End of the Bike Path: 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Lukas Foss, Time Cycle

"TIME CYCLE" (1960) by Lukas Foss (1922-2009)
IV. O Mensch gib Acht (Friedrich Nietzsche)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeneVQEa3yE

Daniel Beliavsky plays "For Lenny" by Lukas Foss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWCuQp1_8_I

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Variations on a Theme in Unison
The Improvisation Chamber Ensemble (1961)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXBoyU1_8c

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Encore II (Air Antique)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDZclxJMgKg

Lukas Foss, "Studies in Improvisation," Encore III (Circus Piece)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZUR_jIgds

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 1: Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnqohtJ1fg

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 2: Menuetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YPwglrMH5A

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 3: Andante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7pkBklSBqs

W. A. Mozart 12 duets for french horn No. 4: Polonaise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtR0vwVESw

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Reynaldo Hahn, Piano Quintet in f# minor

Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947)
Piano Quintet in f# minor

Published by Edition Silver Trust with several sound bites -
http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/hahn-piano-quintet.htm

Hyperion Recordings performance by Stephen Coombs and the Chilingirian Quartet -
http://www.amazon.com/Hahn-Vierne-Quintets-Stephen-Coombs/dp/B00005QIT5

Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) today is primarily remembered as a composer of the operetta Ciboulette, but he did devote a fair amount attention to composing chamber music. Born in Venezuela, Hahn’s family moved to Paris when he was three. He studied at the Conservatory under Massenet who considered him a genius. Handsome and worldly, Hahn drew his friends from a much wider circle than other musicians, for example Marcel Proust and Sarah Bernhardt, and was greatly interested in the literary scene as well as the theater. Having a gifted voice and being an excellent pianist, Hahn needed no assistant for vocal concert evening. He was also a deft conductor who eventually directed the Paris Opera.

His Piano Quintet in f# minor dates from 1921. The big and highly dramatic opening movement of the three movement Quintet, Molto agiatato e con fuoco is, in a word, brilliant. How could music this attractive and exciting land in oblivion? In the moody, pensive and beautiful Andante non troppo lento, the merest whiff of Faure can occasionally be heard. Toward the end, a lovely vocal melody, briefly, like the sun pushing through heavy clouds, lightens the mood. The thematic material of finale, Allegretto grazioso is elegant and genteel and has an almost neo-rococo feel to it. The middle has a slighly more buoyant rondo and the coda slowly builds momentum to a very satisfying conclusion.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Béla Bartok - Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Went looking for this - which is what I expected

• I Musici de Montreal - Yuli Turovsky -

Béla Bartok - Music for strings, percussion and celesta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0W5gRl31E

… found this …

• Scene 3 of the Richland High School percussion concert: The Unique

Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste - Bartok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dLWhd2k8Ro

… and then THIS !!! …

• Show that changed DCI forever Meditation from Medea Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste Second Meditation Dance from Medea

Star of Indiana 1993 Music of Barber and Bartok Medea Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRyznF7JTw

Star of Indiana 1993 Music of Barber and Bartok Medea Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrCrNiHHIg

• This is … the Star of Indiana 1993 show "Music of Barber and Bartok" with an overlay of the percussion judge's tape. Unfortunately I do not have a copy of the video in digital for...

Star of Indiana 1993 Finals Video with Percussion Judge's Tape Audio - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vvT-L0Z0bQ

Star of Indiana 1993 Finals Video with Percussion Judge's Tape Audio - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rigP5sY9mdc

• And some rehearsal footage … to show how it was put together

1993 Star of Indiana Brassline (Rehearsal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZuZC0Cz9A

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• 2009 RHS Percussion Concert: Asylum, more details coming soon …

Prelude No.1 (4 mallet marimba solo performed by Timmy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwt-hygPUg

Extraordinary Machine ~ Fiona Apple (Performed by RHS Percussion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvLE51F1LEQ

Blackbird ~ Beatles, as performed by Bobby McFerrin
(performed by Richland Percussion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRtc-tt_5L8

Béla Bartok (1881-1945) - Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band

Welcome to the Bonzo Dog Band. Meet the members:

Legs Larry Smith on drums,
Sam Spoons on rhythm pole,
Vern Dudley Bernhey No on bass guitar,
and Niel Innes, piano
Comley Rodney Slater, saxaphone ...
...
Charles deGaul on acordian,

...

Intro and Outro- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxv_HLwT7U

Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band - 'The Intro And The Outro' - 45rpm 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c

and slightly related ...

Flying Lizards - "And Then He Kissed Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcyG98X86Pc

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Lost Tokyo - Lost in a Moment - Lost Forever

Grrr.

Last spring there were two especially nice impressionistic videos of Tokyo on YouTube ...

Lost in a Moment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrsZuD4w0c

An impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. They were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst they were in Tokyo. Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.

The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
http://myspace.com/shriftspace

and

Entering Tokyo AT Night from Narita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MX3qOduQw

Alas, the copyright cops have gotten to the second one ... YouTube reports

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

The video content was totally original; the soundtrack was appropriately ambient; but when YouTube pulled the video, they yanked reference to everything ... the poster information, the notes, the video, etc. And and they provide no public documentation of the complaint, the complainer, etc ...

Slowly, the same fate is closing in on the recording industry as a whole.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Pavane

-- two nice hits -- piano roll versions by the composers; some of the comments are interesting ... some are interestingly off base :)

Fauré plays Fauré Pavane, op 50 (4:24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsGh2xYYQg

Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50 - Paintings By "CLAUDE MONET" (7:04)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw

"Pavane pour une infante défunte"

Maurice Ravel - Pavane for Dead Princess (6:38)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkeDqJBlK8
Painting - Lake George, 1889 Artist - John Frederick Kensett (1816--1872)

Maurice Ravel plays Pavane for a Dead Princess (6:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RJielEoTgY&feature=related

Puhan Wang Plays Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte (6:10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocyCWh1rBw

Viktoriya Yermolyeva performs "Pavane" Ravel (5:39)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqEPfOwvUg

Sviatoslav Richter plays Ravel "Pavane" (7:04)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFwt66Vr6U

Saturday, June 20, 2009

A carnatic violin performance in Russia

A carnatic violin performance in Russia by

Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman
Sri GJR Krishnan
Smt. Vijaylaskshmi

Sri Vellore Ramabhadran: mridangam
Sri V. Nagaraj : kanjira

Brova Barama - Bahudari

www.sangeethapriya.org

Lalgudi Performs In Russia (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxhWjIBV5c

Lalgudi performs In Russia (Part 2 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRKiXKU3iM

Lalgudi performs In Russia (Part 3 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGi8oRtkJw

Car·natic (kär nat′ik)
region in SE India, between the Coromandel Coast and the Eastern Ghats

Carnatic music is melody based and not harmony based. In simple terms, this means that by and large, stress is placed on rendering one note at a time. Counterpoints or chords (where more than one note is heard at a time) are generally not used.

History of Music
Origins of Carnatic Music
http://carnatica.net/origin.htm

Cyber Vidyalaya

Monday, May 18, 2009

Bamboo Painting

Sumi-e from Kazu Shimura

Bamboo Sumi-e Drawing 水墨画竹
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYl592lfxL4

Carp, Koi, sumi-e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2oooZQqrq4

Cicada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQGvvNQNQ2Y

Bamboo Drawing (Chinese Painting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36aaSBj8ew

Artist Chu YunLan shows how he draws bamboo with Hair-Pen;
Bamboo is the last of the four major plant painting that
represents the well-around personality that a person should embrace.

Painting/Calligraphy - Bambbo with flathead brush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB11lzu14UE

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Maru desu.

まるです。

大きな箱とねこ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ

箱とねこ２。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRG6BA-_RkQ
前回のビデオの引き出しです。
This is a drawer of the previous video. http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2...

特訓するねこ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0
全てはより良い滑り込みのために。（ただ遊んでいるだけです）

滑り込むねこ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZUPJji6w8

滑り込むねこ２。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfGOlEizUUs

つっ込むねこ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4dF5Lsdxc
どうしても顔を入れたいらしいです。

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Give the Perrfect Holiday Kiss

From the annals of spam

Straight and easy in the

Give the Perrfect Holiday Kiss

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Cumbia

Cumbia Couple
http://www.fotolog.com/cumbio/60940959

cumbia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_2ZThUOUE

Cumbia con Sabor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbDgIoSjM8

How to Do Cumbia Dancing : How to Do Basic Cumbia Dance Steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYl30Dqfc0

Cumbio (Agustina Vivero)

cumbio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjL7o0JFmL0

Cumbio habla de todo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4s52i_xFQ

Cumbio ya tiene su fotoblog
Reúne a 4.500 floggers en el Abasto, se pasea por los programas de televisión y ahora tiene su perfil en nuestro Fotoblog. Agustina ya se decidió. ¿Qué esperás vos para armar el tuyo?
http://www.ciudad.com.ar/2008/09/26/actualidad/01768505.html

Cumbio en telenoche canal 13
Radiograi'a de un fenoo'meno
adolescente (y de su mama)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_rp99Ibar0

Cumbio (Agustina Vivero)
http://www.fotolog.com/cumbio

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dido and Aeneas

Production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Sasha Waltz and the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin in 2005

Sasha Waltz Ballet - Dido & Aeneas - Danza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONubU9kv6mE

Janet Baker - Dido & Aeneas - Ah Belinda I am prest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms6CAUoV1VU

Janet Baker - Dido & Aeneas - When I am laid in earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

Dido & Aeneas Act I: The Palace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNsr1d8iI34

Dido & Aeneas Act II: The Grove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyZAcjjWyKs

Dido & Aeneas Act II: The Cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-JcQNrYak

Purcell: Ah Belinda (Dido & Aeneas)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwT4GmEcP4

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Mystery Chord Decoded

the beatles - HELTER SKELTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9KRpEkGfY

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8

The Beatles Hello Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShSmpI0r9k

The Beatles -- Help!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibX3TejlZE

Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsvE4j4ExA

The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNsmrd-aR1c

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Gl3i6qAYo

“Hard Day’s Night” Mystery chord solved using math
http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/11/beatles-hard-days-night-mystery-chord-solved/

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Reuters hit by malware attack?

A Reuters RSS feed

Oddly enough feed:
Do you want to purchase a meal, Mr. President
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/blogs/oddly-enough/~3/puI1Y-9Z99U/

Leads to

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2009/02/06/do-you-want-to-purchase-a-meal-mr-president/

Which immediates is getting a forward to

The page at http://antimalwarescanner.com/
Warning!!! Your computer contains various signs of
viruses and malware programs presence.

Your system requires immediate anti viruses check!
Antivirus 360 will perform a quick and free scanning
of your PC for viruses and malicious programs.

When then does a scan of my "PC." Even though I'm using a Macintosh :)

So I sent them a note, and we'll see what's up.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Macintosh Celebrates 25th Anniversary (Today)

Mr.Bean Gets a Mac

The Macintosh Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Friday, January 23, 2009

The Early Evolution of Rap

Alan Ginsberg - Hum Bomb Rap (1971, Performed 1996)
Allen Ginsberg on stage at megatripolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJWIKvapzA

Gil Scott-Heron | Winter in America (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGlRsjHTkbs

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Full Version, 1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAjmuA1HDk

Chic - Le Freak 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI6p-I14-A

Elvis Costello - Pump It Up...(1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo (Better sound)

The Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight in 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6gD_CwF5YM

Tanya Winley - Vicious Rap (1980 Classic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkcfU_oLbno

Gil Scott Heron - B Movie (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80JoQY3Oelk

Blondie, Rapture (January 1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0BLV04vbE&feature=related

Wordy Rappinghood (~June 1981)
Tom Tom Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hk6jit5fD8

Talking Heads - Genius Of Love (From Stop Making Sense, 1983 and 1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjZ3TGbvdM

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwFeQpy_Us

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5LmQmQZqg

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Andy Warhol Screen Tests: 1964 - 1966

Warhol Screen Tests

From Warhol: Larger than Life opening in January 2008

Andy Warhol's Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 - November 1966 (GM25). Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. These film portraits were some of the earliest examples of Warhol's Screen Test series. It is interesting to note that they were filmed in Edey's apartment prior to Warhol's move to the silver Factory where most, but not all, of the other Screen Tests were made. More than 500 Screen Tests were made. In addition to The 13 Most Beautiful Boys, some of the footage was incorporated into other compilation reels such as The 13 Most Beautiful Women (1964) and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities (1964). Malanga also used some reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965. In 1966 Andy and Gerard also prepared a book together of Screen Test stills from 54 subjects (17 women and 37 men) and Gerard's poetry called Screen Tests/A Diary (NY: Kulchur Press, 1967).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_TMEFRt950 [04:00]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C9ekiGMaBI [02:23]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-I8d1gfxPU [03:53]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJy5N90GPaU [01:01]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Lhxnlri-4 [03:48]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m8qL35Y1bo[03:20]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n35RweZq7lI [03:28]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txj7Zzgx_OM [03:52]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak2IFSBcCpQ [03:45]

Monday, January 5, 2009

Les Cowboys Fringants

Les Cowboys Fringants
http://www.cowboysfringants.com/

Le Gars d'la Compagnie des Cowboys Fringants

Montage beau paysage sur la musique des Cowboys Fringants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJAIwZkPY1U

Entrain de rouler sur la route 2 pres de Burlington Vermont en allant vers south Hero. LesCowboysFringants EtoileFilante Montage#2

Vidéoclip Les Etoiles Filantes des Cowboys Fringants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCeVCGtHak

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians

Spoiler: From the full performance at Opera City, Tokyo. Section X-XI

Steve Reich • Music for 18 Musicians CD Trailer
www.newmusicensemble.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVMVDhC-UA

Steve Reich at NEC. Music for 18 Musicians
Rehearsal 01 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou9P450wmLQ
Rehearsal 02 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoy3PHX060
Stage Rehearsal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0khiB7m9M0Q

Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich - Beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU23LqQ6LY4

Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"-
"Music for 18 Musicians-Pulse" at Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, May 21,2008.
Steve Reich and Musicians, members of the Ensemble Modern and The Synergy Vocals!

Section II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA2YrlfEe6Y
Section IIIA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx27voOtpNs
Section IIIB - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N4fLuyQk-U
Section IV - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrAnO7FuqIo
Section V - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqsUt2aC6_E
Section VI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn1AmqzTmKI
Section VII - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hML1TuDcRI
Section VIII - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwHo8DuSIs
Section IX - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLEumNrxyoE
Section X-XI - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc6NXbt6B7c
Pulse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiV9f1_PFHE

Nagoya Marimbas by Steve Reich (June-19-2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wmaVL4vJ8

Nagoya Marimbas - Steve Reich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwXKQDYcvc

Nagoya Guitars by Steve Reich
TheGothenburgCombo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMA8CRyNUMc

The Rite of Spring

The Joffrey Ballet's recreation of the 1913 Nijinsky choreography of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps.

Spoiler : Illustration from Act 2, The Young Girls Dance

The Rite of Spring
Act 1 : Adoration of the Earth
Act 2 : The Sacrifice

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjX3oAwv_Fs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8njeKBfqw
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK64sTi4mKc

The Joffrey Ballet Restores Nijinsky's 'Rite of Spring'
Jack Anderson
Published: October 25, 1987
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D8173DF936A15753C1A961948260

The Joffrey Ballet Resurrects The Rite of Spring
http://www.nea.gov/about/40th/joffrey.html