Weird about not getting Callas. I tried all three and only the third, which apparently you don't get, was Callas. Let me try one other way to send it to you. Maybe?
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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I am posting Julian Bream playing three Villa Lobos preludes on guitar. The most beautiful guitat pieces I have ever heard. I was learning them when I quit my classical guitar lessons because of my divorce. These have as much duende (or whaterver the word is in Brazil) as anything I’ve ever heard. Villa Lobos was a street musician and his heart and soul was still in the streets of Brazil when he wrote classical music. Perhaps you’ll enjoy these, or at least watching Bream’s face as he plays them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZ68_pxL9M Here's a poem I wrote about Villa Lobos: Villa Lobos
in shady corners along walls where mud meets mud & old men in tatters sleep cool in the dusty air
a lover tiptoes from the softness of lips to the cold precision of strings |
RE: Bream, I love the emotion. BTW, I used to be in a band in Maine with a guy who, as part of his MFA degree program, had spent several months living with Snyder. Apparently, Snyder’s wife was not in the habit of wearing clothes during the summer months and this became such a distraction for my friend that in the end, he asked her to put some clothes on. This was the 70’s in CA, when nudity was "no big deal". . . or at least, that’s how you were expected to view it, if you were a cool counterculture brother.
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