Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-03 Thread Share Long
Richard, so both Rita and her sister are very involved in music. Did any of your children inherit that gift? On Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:28 PM, Pundit Sir pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   Rita and I appreciate all kinds of music including serious classical music and world music. Rita's

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-03 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 3/3/2014 8:49 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: Clicking the three dots sure makes it easy to know which post you're responding to. In some cases, you don't even need to know what they are responding to - all you need to know is their alias or their name and that pretty much says it all.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 3/1/2014 7:56 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you for that. I am an ignoramus when it comes to knowing about music but my ear seems to make up for what I lack in theoretical musical knowledge. This guy can really sing, but it would be even more interesting maybe to understand

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread authfriend
Italian. How to find lyrics to songs: Google English lyrics [title of song] Translation from Wikipedia: I am a scorned wife, faithful, yet insulted. Heavens, what did I do? And yet he is my heart, my husband, my love, my hope. I love him, but he is unfaithful, I hope, but he

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread Bhairitu
Music is an art form and it will take many forms of expression. The arts in their nature are spiritual in that they have a powerful ability to shift consciousness and emotions. Musicians struggle with the terms for the public for musical pieces (or in some cases sound pastiches). Serious

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread doctordumbass
fuck, yeah. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote: Music is an art form and it will take many forms of expression. The arts in their nature are spiritual in that they have a powerful ability to shift consciousness and emotions. Musicians struggle with the terms for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread authfriend
DoctorDumbass, just to make a point here: the distinction you imagined was not the one I was making when I used the term serious music. If you hadn't been so snotty about it, I would have explained that the counterpart of serious music isn't not-serious music but popular music. Classical is an

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread doctordumbass
Yes, I agree, we shouldn't do this more often. -- Emperor Snot ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: DoctorDumbass, just to make a point here: the distinction you imagined was not the one I was making when I used the term serious music. If you hadn't been so snotty about

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread Bhairitu
Brahms was know to use tavern pieces as well as some other composers and some composers are known for using folk songs. This is stuff you don't often get in music appreciation classes though I would think it would make them more interesting. It the music history profs that teach it and

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread authfriend
My point was only that there wasn't enough of that type of thing to make the term serious a misnomer, as you suggested earlier (see quote below). Also, in my experience, anything more than the briefest of discussions of a piece will mention such borrowings. (Can't speak for whatever mus app

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread Pundit Sir
Rita and I appreciate all kinds of music including serious classical music and world music. Rita's sister has an M.A. in Music from Eastern Michigan State. Here she is singing the solo (2:43) at St.John's in Detroit (not sure if this is serious music): Easter 2012 at St. John's Detroit: The

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

2014-03-02 Thread Pundit Sir
Neil Young and Stephen Stills alnost invented country-rock and/or folk rock. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Neil Young is at number 17 on the list of The Greatest Guitar Players of All Time and he was ranked No. 26 in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. His influence on the some recent