Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@mahgister 

Thank you for taking it easy on me. I do get tired more easily than I used to.

I'm going to post a song just for you. Because much of what you post has an esoteric and intellectual component. I'm going to post a song that became very popular among the masses. Perhaps a seemingly simple song. As a poet, however, I think the poetry of its lyrics are masterful because they go straight to the heart and every word belongs. Nothing false. Emotionally, everything in this song is solid and true and deep, in that it's talking about people's most intimate feelings. Bonnie Raitt is the singer, and she absolutely kills this song. If you're prone to weeping, she could make you weep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

@audio-b-dog - That Ken Burns Jazz series is great, yeah? I don't even like jazz and I thoroughly enjoyed that... 

@larsman 

I'm watching the Jazz series for the second time and getting a lot more out of it. Ken Burns also did a series on country music I thoroughly enjoyed. And then there was the baseball series that kept me mesmerized.

I can't remember who I was talking to about Sibelius, but here is a poem I wrote about him a long time ago.

Sibelius

 

 

cold northern wind

whips in

stutters choppy water  .  lean

& ache of light

on wave's underbelly

 

vast spectacle of light

refracted

across the ocean's

face scooped by swift

hands fashioned

beyond description

 

but then again—

a waltz  .  soft

cheek meets warm

        lonely cheek

gliding like smooth winds

over an icy sky

 

sad last waltz

tomorrow we die

 

 

 

@mahgister 

Here's a snippet from Kiri Te Kanawa singing Puccini's La Rondine. I love her voice in this opera. It is a pristine soprano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pg4rsj1_g

I listened to Liszt played by Sofronitsky today. Absolutely electrifying. I couldn't find Moravec playing Liszt, but I listened to a piece by Debussy and it was excellent.

Beautiful rendition by Te Kanawa of this beautiful Puccini aria. Thanks!

It is common for artists (not just singers) to show some degree, however small, of their ethnicity when performing, or creating.. This is akin  to a trace of accent of one’s native tongue when speaking another language. Conversely, with singers there can be a higher degree of comfort when singing in their native tongue.  There might also be certain stylistic influences that are unique to a particular culture’s music that are better expressed by a native. Either way, this doesn’t necessarily make for a better or worse performance since there are other musical factors involved, but singing in one’s native tongue the music of a composer of one’s own ethnicity can sometimes add a certain “something” to the performance. 

Not better or worse than Te Kanawa’s wonderful rendition, but to me this sounds more……well, Italian.  

 https://youtu.be/zpPPEgx9NQA?si=L4jhp8IIroLSM3eF