Hi,

I have posted some Daft punk piano covers on youtube (I tried to give them a classical touch) if you want to check it out:

Harder better stronger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP59xgCsvUg

Get lucky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRsd41Rxr0

Bye'

Here is a rare film from 1937. It shows George Gershwin filming Arnold Schoenberg and friends, then you later hear the voice of Schoenberg lamenting the 1937 death of Gershwin. This is surely an important musical document:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cn1L_cgHPY

It speaks volumes about George Gershwin that he befriended Arnold Schoenberg and admired his music.

Thanks, Green Knight, on Mexico. Here's another one I like too.

Good version--

---Lyrics--

Way down here, you need a reason to move.
Feel a fool running your stateside games.
Lose your load, leave your mind behind, Baby James.
Woh, Mexico, it sounds so simple, I just got to go.
The sun's so hot I forgot to go home, guess I'll have to go now.

"Americano" got the sleepy eye but his body's still shaking like a live wire.
Sleepy senorita with the eyes on fire.
Woh, Mexico. It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low.
The moon's so bright, like to light up the night, make everything all right.

Baby's hungry and the money's all gone.
The folks back home don't want to talk on the phone.
She gets a long letter, sends back a postcard, times are hard.
Woh, down in Mexico, I've never really been so I don't really know.
Woh, Mexico, I guess I'll have to go.
Woh, Mexico, I've never really been but I'd sure like to go.
And oh, Mexico, I guess I'll have to go now.
Talking 'bout in Mexico.
In a honky-tonk down in Mexico.

I see myself clearly (fragments)

I see myself clearly, dirty and happy...
I see myself discovering, barefoot, a river of drowning plants
I see myself clearly asking question that I already knew
with indifference cause of the "you'll grow up"
I see myself clearly, the first night with my guitar,
pale, as it was with the first women
I see myself attentive to my internal noise, happily sad,
wanting genuinely to be a lot better
I see myself clearly looking for words
that give life and death to love



Me veo claramente
mascando un pedazo de hierba mojada,
me veo claramente muy sucio y feliz.
Me veo descubriendo
descalzo un buen río de plantas ahogadas,
me veo claramente lejano de aquí.

Me veo claramente
haciendo preguntas que ya conocía
con indiferencia ante el "ya crecerás".
Me veo claramente tan aventurero,
hecho un asesino de azúcar y pan.
Me veo claramente si miro detrás.

Me veo claramente
en la mano una noche —lugar de aprenderme
con miedo y paciencia lo que era el amor—.
Me veo apretado
al calor de unas piernas, tragando del aire
un planeta tras otro, bañado en sudor.

Me veo semialzado
en la luz de esa hora, riéndole al techo,
riéndole a ella, riéndome a mí.
Me veo claramente tan digno de amantes
y breves países de felicidad.
Me veo claramente,
me veo claramente si miro detrás.

Me veo claramente
marchando a campañas de guerra entre todos
y yendo a otras guerras privadas también.
Me veo claramente
la primera noche con una guitarra,
tan pálidamente como cuando fue la primera mujer.

Me veo tan atento
a los ruidos internos, feliz tristemente,
queriendo de veras ser mucho mejor.
Me veo claramente buscando palabras
que sepan dar vida y dar muerte al amor.

Me veo claramente.
Me veo si miro a mi alrededor.

Several weeks ago Norton 360 reported that it had found a piece of malware on my machine. I suspect it came by email because I only go on "safe" sites and I HAVE been getting a lot of obvious phishing and bogus email. (Some with friends and families email in the "from" box).
At any case, Norton didn't catch it until my machine had been infected. It said that my machine was the "attacker". It did however clean this from my machine. All seemed well until a few weeks later when I noticed my machine running noticeably slower. Norton didn't pick up anything but I noticed strange processes taking up an inordinate amount of resources and things like that. It seemed that once I had taken care of one problem, another would immediately pop up. Norton also showed that something was trying to penetrate my security. This was being done ALOT.
My guess is, is that I had several things infected on my machine. I had to run the Full Scan to find anything there. This took several hours each time because even my backup had been infected and when it did a full scan there was over 10 million files to scan!! Finally, it seems that my system is clean. I was lucky that I didn't have to reload the OS. I was really close to having to do that I believe.

I have also been seeing increasing penetration of banks and such in the trade publications. Adobe is the latest victim as a production version of ColdFusion was penetrated and SSN's, Names, addresses, and such were stolen in the states. Also, their Reader has a current vulnerability. (Doesn't it always).

Anyway, stay vigilant!:toobad:

Several times I have said on here that I'm leaving FB and coming back to BC full time. The first time it was games, which I HAVE quit. The latest reason however was a bit more difficult. My 40 year high school reunion is coming up and I haven't seen some of these people in 40 years. The organizers are using FB to get people in touch.

I must say since we started this that I didn't realize how many of my class have passed away. I only had 100 in my class and there are quite a few that are gone. It also seems, as would be the case, that the pace of people leaving us is increasing.

On the other hand, I do not like to have to listen to the political babble and peoples recipes. :mad2:

;)

I've been trying to find some large-scale vocal works of the romantic or modern period, but I'm failing miserably. I love the mixture of the four solo voices (bass, tenor, contralto and soprano) along with orchestra and choir, but these pieces are hard to find on those two periods. In some requiem masses, there are moments where all the soloists are singing over the orchestra, but they are few.

Some examples of what I'm looking for:
- Agnus Dei, from Dvorak's Requiem
- Quando corpus morietur and Quis est Homo, from Dvorak's Stabat Mater
- Rex tremendae and Kyrie eleison, from Verdi's Requiem
- Magnus Dominus, from Penderecki's Seven Gates of Jerusalem
- Domine Jesu, from Mozart's Requiem

So, I would really appreciate some help finding pieces similar to these... I'm not looking for operas, as they are formally dialogs, and that somehow removes the effect those other mass-like pieces have.

Thank you.

Yesterday I was in Ghent to attend this wonderful concert.

"Messa da Requiem" Guiseppe Verdi

Musical direction: Dmitri Jurowski
Soprano: Julianna Di Giacomo
Mezzo-soprano: Veronica Simeoni
Tenor: Pavel Černoch
Bass: Mirco Palazzi

Requiem Mass for the living

Verdi composed this mass following the death of Alessandro Manzoni, a true Italian literary icon. Rather than a sublime hymn to life after death, this is a requiem for the living. The image of the impotent man who is left in despair following a loss moved Verdi far more deeply than the grand majesty of a revered deity. Powerful choral passages and dramatic orchestral pieces portray the fate of mankind. So it does not promise us the redemption of salvation, but pays tribute to man in all his mortality.


Great performance :hippy::hippy::hippy:

Technical problems took brightcecilia.com offline for c. 24 hours. Sorry about that. All is fine now.

Here is another dazzler by another fairly unfamiliar composer,
who was from Philadelphia and of Armenian parents.

He has used twelve tone style, but with a less stridence
as some composers like Sessions. He was often inspired by
church themes and biblical stories.
This First Symphony of 1950 is abstract and "typical" of his work:

How I enjoyed this opera!!!

http://vlaamseopera.be/nl/#!/producties/parsifal-5