Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@stuartk 

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

@audio-b-dog 

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. 

Maria Callas sing "la rondine" under Tullio Serafim in a recording but it is not on youtube...

@stuartk 

Bream plays those pieces with more emotion than anyone else I’ve heard, including John Williams and Pepe Romero. 

So, if it’s emotion you’re looking for in classical music, you might start with Wagner. Not his operas themselves, but the preludes and overtures. Parsifal, Tristan and Isolde, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin. One of my favorites is his Magic Fire Music.

I ran into Snyder a few times in the 70's and 80's when I went to hear him read. He was much admired for his Zen schtick, but as I look back on it, I think it was kind of ruse socially. Not that he didn't feel it in his poems. But I think he was a misogynist, like most men, and he used the Zen thing to excuse it. I went in to talk to him with my very pretty sister, and after that he was much more interested in taking her on motorcycle rides than talking about my poetry. Although, in his own sparse way, I thought he was an excellent teacher.

Not my cup of tea.  I like to understand the words and it ruins it for me whether they be obscured by a language barrier, or a breathy voice.

This is more to my liking.

https://youtu.be/ApS2wScgU44