2004 died of a heart attack in Cusco, the altitude of 3.400m may have contributed. https://www.nme.com/news/music/nme-1684-1364444
How is your Tuesday afternoon going? I'm a big fan of Mary Fahl's voice and she has covered many great songs including the full Dark Side Of The Moon album... This is beautiful...
Woke up this morning. https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/musi...frQECjxpUZW5_q9lrexrBsiE6yHr0pGSpSGDY1z4Wc3Bo
It's 50 years ago today that the great Country Rock pioneer, Gram Parsons, shuffled off this mortal coil... This is just sublime...
That is a staggering performance for any age. I have to admit that I am not a Mozart fan and would point out that he was himself a prodige. As someone who has recently beenstruggling to play some Haydn and Scarlatti sonatas to brush up my own technique, it is pretty frustrating to see a 5 year old this good! The sonata was written by Mozart for wider publication and was therefore not as tehnically demanding as some of his other works. I find the Alberti bass lines to be something that is really irritating in Mozart's works. I have to say that I find Haydn more modest and appealing where Mozart clearly had a very high opinion of himself. When I had piano lessons, I had a teacher who detested Mozart and wrote him off as only having too ideas! Consequently, I find him to be a difficult composer to warm to having been poisoned against him! This sonata is a nice example of how composer's looked to make their music popular by making them easy enough to play to find appeal amongst a wider audience. I was not really aware of this until recently when i bought the music of Albeniz "Espagne" which was effectively "plugged" during a conert tour he gave in London in the 1890s. I think Laces will find this interesting because , prior to the advent of recorded music, music was made popular through manuscript. Music was doing this in the late 1700s and the Albeniz composition is a similar example of "popularism" by which time composers had been writing stuff that was impossible for mere mortals to play. With so many composers having acquired reputations which would pitch them at the higher levels of musical achievement, you lose sight of the fact that mny composers had a living to earn and were not adverse to writing stuff that had a broader appeal amongst the public. For all the great Mozart music, there are early works by the likes of Gottschalk which are effectively Victorian parlour music that may have been popular in their time but whose obscurity is merited. I would alsp point out that there were plenty of composers writing works at a really young age too. Recently I have been struggling through Syzmanowki Preludes Opus 1 - some of these were composed when he was 14. I keep on thinking that he must have had huge hands! I am sure that there are even younger examples!
I'm seriously impressed by how much info this young lady gives on each of her videos of classic (and new) albums. Her research is thorough and her presentational style is easy, quirky and humorous. Here are two of my personal favourites, one old and one new... Check out her channel, she has loads more... https://www.youtube.com/@abigaildevoe
I'd read before about how on old early 60s Rock n Roll star was Bowie's inspiration for Ziggy Stardust and here's an interesting little documentary about him...
Later is back Saturday 14th 10:30pm. That's good not much else to watch. https://www.theguardian.com/culture...-fall-piano-jools-holland-later-armed-robbery
Wow, just wow i've just watched the whole set of Beat-Club videos of live performances by Fanny in 1971. What a kick ass band! all four can play and sing spectacularly and are as tight as a drum and I can't believe that they weren't massive... "They were extraordinary: they wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them... They're as important as anybody else who's ever been, ever; but it just wasn't their time."- David Bowie discussing Fanny in 1999.
Took Sean Hannam up to Billy Duffy's place to interview him for the podcast series I've been working on for Cambridge Audio. It's a great listen (and there's some fabulous guests we've had in/coming up if you're not on it already!) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cgpI2uStRq0r6EFX1pc5Y?si=2e97b776ad8644b3
RIP John Peel died 25-10-2004. please log in to view this image Enjoy this, no apologies for repeat posting.
