A great cover of Kashmir, one of my most favourite modern pieces. Filed under: Music Tagged: Heart, Kashmir, Led Zepplin, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Simon and Garfunkle
It’s true. I love them. I wish I could have had the means to go see them perform live while they were still together. But, we can make do with the magic of youtube. Filed under: Music Tagged: Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Music Trivia Interlude – Album Covers
Never noticed those before. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Album Covers, CBC Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Ombra Mai Fu – Handel
Next on the list of pieces that I’m learning. Super extra challenging aria because of the recitative in the beginning. But, as they say, nothing worth doing is ever easy. “Ombra mai fu” is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel. In the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Disservice – Rachmaninoff Op.3 Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, No.2
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Russian: Прелюдия), Op. 3, No. 2, is one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most famous compositions. It is a ternary (ABA) prelude for piano in C-sharp minor, 62 bars long, and part of a set of five pieces entitled Morceaux de fantaisie.[1] Its first performance was by the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach, Ricercar a 6
Follow the theme – Hint: It is the ‘eggs’ 🙂 Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Bach, Musical Offering, Ricercar a 6, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
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Follow the theme – Hint: It is the ‘eggs’ 🙂 Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Bach, Musical Offering, Ricercar a 6, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Surprising Musical Origins of Star Trek
Oh radio 2, how I wish you’d reformat again with more classical music. A huge hattip to the CBC for producing this wonderful journey through song. Also, who knew Tom Allen was a purveyor the dark art of lower brass musicianship? 🙂 Oh hey our conservative government is trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The Surprising Musical Origins of Star Trek
Oh radio 2, how I wish you’d reformat again with more classical music. A huge hattip to the CBC for producing this wonderful journey through song. Also, who knew Tom Allen was a purveyor the dark art of lower brass musicianship? 🙂 Oh hey our conservative government is trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Dies Irae – CBC Music
Popular music? Feh! Call yourself popular when you have remained in rotation for forty human generations. Yes, this is the same CBC that our government wants to eliminate. I suggest you take action and let Harper know that CBC is a valuable Canadian institution and needs more support, not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Dies Irae – CBC Music
Popular music? Feh! Call yourself popular when you have remained in rotation for forty human generations. Yes, this is the same CBC that our government wants to eliminate. I suggest you take action and let Harper know that CBC is a valuable Canadian institution and needs more support, not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach Invention No.2 in C minor
again with Harmonic and Imitative Analysis. Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach Invention No.2 in C minor, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach’s Invention No.1 in C Major
Listening to music is awesome. Listening to music and understanding what makes it amazing is ‘double-plus’ awesome. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Invention No.1 in C Major, Music Analysis, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Les Miserables
Some productions should not leave the stage. Hollywood…just…stop…please… Filed under: Music Tagged: Cinema Sins, Les Miserables, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Spring
Here in Sunny Alberta, our seasons don’t quite match what the calendar might have you believe. So while it may be that it has officially been spring for some time now, the threat of frost up until last week kind of detracted from any sense of rebirth or new life. But
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Changing gears a touch here folks, but in a good way. We are adding the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to our list of artists we love forever here on DWR. So, move over Bach, shuffle over Beethoven and make some room for DHoH 🙂 So turn up the bass
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Changing gears a touch here folks, but in a good way. We are adding the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to our list of artists we love forever here on DWR. So, move over Bach, shuffle over Beethoven and make some room for DHoH 🙂 So turn up the bass
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Goldberg Variations No 27/28.
Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav. Variation 27 is the last canon of the piece, at the ninth and in 6/8 time. This is the only canon where two manuals are specified (not due to hand-crossing difficulties), and the only pure canon of the work, because it does
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Goldberg Variations No 27/28.
Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav. Variation 27 is the last canon of the piece, at the ninth and in 6/8 time. This is the only canon where two manuals are specified (not due to hand-crossing difficulties), and the only pure canon of the work, because it does
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Tim Minchin
Music with a subtle message. http://youtu.be/VGErC6QQdoc Filed under: Music Tagged: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, Tim Minchin
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