Music!

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...Just love this work, and the singer could claim me anytime...*S*  But it is a sad song, he is singing it to His dead Wife, knowing that the Civil War will be coming to him...whether he likes it or not...

https://youtu.be/roC5Hv1oa0Q

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...Another performance by this powerful actor/singer.  It is from 1776 (The Musical) and it certainly points out the difficulties the Founding Fathers were faced with.

https://youtu.be/IeuaTpH6Ck0

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..Two real stories about this wonderful work.

I was sitting Principal cello with a local orchestra, and the Managers had hired a wonderful violinist to perform this very difficult work.  He had mastered the work, and it was a joy to rehearse with him, he was nice, not conceited.  During the performance, he was sweating very heavily after the first movement.  He didn't have a hanky, and he gestured to the Conductor, who also raised his hands in denial.  I always had a hanky, I would drape it over the left shoulder of my cello so my hand sweat would not tarnish the cello.  I handed the hanky to the Conductor, and he passed it on to the soloist.  We finished the work, and the soloist gave it back to me...it was SOAKED!  *S*  If he was a world class performer I probably could have listed it on Ebay!

I also witnessed this when I lived in CA.  Itzak was performing this work with the SF Philomarnic with Seiji Ozawa.  He broke an 'A' string during the 1st movement, and quickly handed his violin off to the Concertmaster.  The concertmaster passed the violin back and took other instruments, and the violin arrived at the last stand.  The man had extra strings in his pocket, and he restrung the violin...tuned it...and set it back up the line.  The outside violinists handed it up the line, and got their own back.  It arrived at the first stand just as the cadenza arrived...and the Concertmaster held it out to Itzak.  The audience started laughing...and even Ozawa had to stop to laugh.

https://youtu.be/CTE08SS8fNk

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...Just love this...

https://youtu.be/F7RJiaNQuHo

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...One of most powerful duets for female singers.  It is from 'Miss Saigon', which was based on 'Madame Butterfly'.  I tear up every time.  Chris, a Marine, is back in the US after the Vietnam War, and had had to leave Kim, a young Vietnamese behind, although he had fathered a child with her.  He married Ellen, a woman in the US...but part of him was left in Vietnam.  The two women sing of their love for him, and how he is torn between both worlds.  At the end of the musical, he and Ellen return to Vietnam, and Kim tries to give her child to Ellen...she is confused, and refuses.  At the finale, Chris tracks Kim down, and when he also refuses to take the child...Kim shoots herself...leaving Chris with no choice.

https://youtu.be/Mf9g0lNQDLQ

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...One of Mozarts' best, IMHO.  It is very classical through the second movement, but then He enters the Romantic period towards the end...but just doesn't hit the 'Beethoven' transition.  It is fun to play...the cello is quiet...but is ominous...*S*

https://youtu.be/GAymeSR2SIY

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...Izee' singing to Tristan...

You who i cradled in my arms
You asking as little as you can
Little snip of a little man
I know i'd give my life for you

You didn't ask me to be born
You why should you learn of war or pain?
To make sure you're not hurt again
I swear I'd give my life for you

I've tasted love beyond all fear
And you should know it's love
that brought you here
And in one perfect night
when the stars burned like new,
I knew what I must do
I'll give you a million things I'll never own
I'll give you a world to conquer when you're grown

You will be who you want to be
You can choose whatever heaven grants
As long as you can have your chance
I swear I'll give my life for you

Sometimes I wake up
reaching for him
I feel his shadow brush my head
But there's just moonlight on my bed

Was he a ghost was he a lie?
That made my body laugh and cry?
Then by my side the proof i see
his little one, gods of the sun,
bring him to me!

You will be who you want to be
You, can choose whatever heaven grants
As long as you can have your chance
I swear i'll give my life for you

No one can stop what i must do
I swear i'll give my life for you!
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ZoeAdriana Garcia
ZoeAdriana G

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...Gotta love the Squids... ...but the Men are looking around very carefully...

https://youtu.be/GFqlwAWuMTg

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...A wonderful performance...I wonder how many real people are experiencing this...

https://youtu.be/-8Nvj9VJ3eQ

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No words need to be said. The music and memories say it all..

Lady Antebellum: Need you Now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM213aMKTHg

Blake Shelton: Who're you when I'm not looking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXD9-1mLBY

Evans Blue - Cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oatd5Hrh3Pg

Khelani - Gangster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYgZEMMWxo

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...A nice performance of the William Tell Overture.  The opening is so sad...

https://youtu.be/DVudBHoysXI

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...*S*  I just love listening to singers...except they can't count...and they don't know the difference between a C-Sharp, and a D-Flat!..   The Human Voice is AWESOME!  I can't sing, although I can be very 'enthusiastic'.  When our Music Sorority would perform vocal works, the Leader would tell me before we got on stage..."Just 'lip synch',  I will do your chores for the next week."  I agreed, for some reason, I was always assigned the difficult chores.

This is a performance by a Counter Tenor.  It is a male voice...but it is very high...at times almost at a Mezzo Soprano.  In early times, there were male singers called 'Castrati'...for obvious reasons.  They had the Soprano that boys often have...but with the power of an adult when they grew up.  In my Freshman year at Conservatory we all attended a Music History class.  The Professor briefly discussed the 'Castrati' when we were studying that era, and commented that the 'Castrati' were very respected and well paid, and that there weren't very many of them.  A girl sitting in front of me asked, "Well, if they were so well paid, why didn't more men get their vocal cords operated on?"  The Professor turned bright red...I leaned forward, and tapped her shoulder, and whispered..."They didn't operate on the vocal cords...they cut their balls off."  She shrieked...and the whole class whooped with laughter.

The Professor gestured to me to stay behind when he dismissed the class, and after everyone was gone, started laughing, and said..."Thank you...I REALLY didn't want to explain that"...He was a Julliard Graduate.  I cracked up, too, and said..."Let me know whenever I can help out".  We encountered each other several times after I graduated, we would go out for a drink or some food after a Concert or a rehearsal, and talk about the Conservatory.  He would fill me in on the other professors and the management and other matters.  He played the French Horn very well, and I always liked him...although he did have a horrible temper that he sometimes let loose on us.   

https://youtu.be/4lyw6mAwVMA

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No explanation needed. I'm a huge Fallout Fan..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RkECmMPb3M

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...A nice Brahms piano rhapsody.  There is a theme that appears in the first part, and is repeated.     Everyone will recognize it.     It appears in pretty much every 'Bugs Bunny' cartoon.

https://youtu.be/tp-DeAZmKOA

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...I think that this is possibly the most poignant piece ever written.  I have played it many times...often it was selected as part of a wedding that my quartet performed.  I always had to wipe away tears.  It has meant different things to me during my life...it really is a complex song.

https://youtu.be/tk3rS8Yh-SI