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Post by Andrew on Jan 22, 2022 10:38:29 GMT
Hi All, Listening to Classic FM… Aled just played: “Libertango” by: Astor Piazzolla. The genre of this music reminded me of: “Tangissimo” by: Fiona Pears… Now I am listening to Fiona Pears! I will never forget witnessing Fiona literally kicking off her shoes and playing a very animated and energetic rendition of this piece live on stage at The Buccleuch Centre in Langholm, 2007 when she and Ian Tilley toured with Hayley. Andrew m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuvW1tkIJ2M |
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Post by Jeff on Feb 18, 2022 7:45:18 GMT
John Denver is a singer who wears his heart on his sleeve and I like that. As Storm Eunice hits the UK, I thought this song was very appropriate. The oboe and cello are a great addition too.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 20, 2022 21:16:57 GMT
After the storm we have the flood !
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Post by comet on Feb 21, 2022 12:35:41 GMT
Thanks Jeff, it's been quite a while since I heard that one.
I must have that album stashed in my box of signed discs, I haven't set eyes on it in a few years now.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 22, 2022 21:16:32 GMT
Iconic is an overused word but this song from the 60s really was iconic and with the passing of Gary Brooker announced today I'm listening to it again.
The London Symphony Orchestra recorded it too.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 25, 2022 18:13:19 GMT
I'll be listening to this Sunday 2pm.
The new album by Sarah Class sounds very good indeed.
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Post by Jeff on Mar 17, 2022 11:41:20 GMT
Happy St Patrick's Day, Comet !
That final note of Hayley's gets me every time.
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Post by comet on Mar 17, 2022 23:49:04 GMT
Happy St Patrick's Day, Comet ! That final note of Hayley's gets me every time. and to you too Jeff and to all our HWI members, guests and lurkers worldwide in these the strangest of times. sometimes little fragments of lyrics pop up in my mind, sometimes just a few words that leave me wondering what song they come from, Like Donovan's Universal soldier. this time it is not a song it is these words: by philosopher John Stuart Mill, who delivered an 1867 inaugural address at the University of St. Andrews and stated: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” |
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Post by comet on Mar 18, 2022 0:02:38 GMT
Have any of you guys come across Faeland in your travels ?
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2022 1:14:57 GMT
I have just enjoyed this tribute to Gary Brooker, who sadly passed away on 19th February this year. It is an interesting and sensitive interpretion, very fitting as a tribute I think.
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Post by comet on Mar 21, 2022 13:00:16 GMT
A Whiter Shade Of Pale
It was one of those "Must get records" when I was a teenager.
It was released again in the late seventies on 12 inch white vinyl.
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Post by Dave on Mar 21, 2022 17:29:00 GMT
Yes indeed, one of a handful of my personal "Greatest records of all time", sung that time by Emily Linge (she's done some other very nice covers of well known pop songs).
But hey, let's have the Procol Harum original - original black and white video with a synchronized audio remaster - much longer version (but far from the longest!) with some clever video editing to stretch it out to match the audio length.
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Post by Dave on Mar 26, 2022 20:11:14 GMT
Libby BBC World Service broadcasting its Arts Hour from the Rainier Arts Center in Seattle, with a live audience! Are you there? 
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Post by Libby on Mar 26, 2022 23:36:04 GMT
Libby BBC World Service broadcasting its Arts Hour from the Rainier Arts Center in Seattle, with a live audience! Are you there? No, I wasn't there.  |
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Post by Jeff on Mar 27, 2022 7:35:48 GMT
It's Mothering Sunday so there are no prizes for guessing what I'm listening to but who remembers this song was first a hit for a young Scottish lad on a show called "Opportunity Knocks ?" (I'll let you google Neil Reid).
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