Simple Gifts
What a lovely “coronation hymn”. Maestro John Williams wrote a piece based on Aaron Copeland’s arrangement of the old Shaker Tune “Simple Gifts” in “Appalachian Spring”. Yo-Yo Ma performed along with Itzhak Perlman on violin, Gabriela Montero on piano and Anthony McGill on clarinet. “Simple Gifts” is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett. […]
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Six Songs
In The World in Six Songs. How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, Daniel J. Levitin lists six songs that inspired him in 1975 to become a musician. These are his “comfort” songs: Autobahn by Kraftwerk Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony as performed by Herbert von Karajan & the Berlin Philharmonic Revolver by the Beatles (whole album) […]
Mike Scott: Bring ’em all in
I’ve been reading Daniel J. Levitin’s stimulating book, The World in Six Songs. How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, in which he explores how we co-evolved with the music we make. He comes up with six categories of song: Friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love. These songs, he says, have been sung for […]
Bo Diddley: Bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp. Bomp-bomp
The “Originator” of rock ‘n’ roll is dead. Bo Diddley (Dec 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008) was born in Mississippi, raised in Chicago, lived in Washington, D.C. for seven years (1959 to 1966) and was a key figure in that great movement that brought black roots into the mainstream. He created the driving, syncopated […]
Drifting on Music
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/drifting-on-music.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI guess in my life it’s always been the guitar player who gets the girl. When I’m feeling blue or stressed out and I want to drop my defenses and relax, there’s just nothing like good guitar music to take me there.
