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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

 

However you feel about Broadway shows and/or homosexuality, you've got to admit the guy has a point.

 

 

La Cage Aux Folles was a French comedy from the early 1970s that won a cult following in America -- it was the sort of movie American producers still weren't making. It was adapted into a very popular and acclaimed Broadway musical, largely on the strength of a score with numbers like this. Finally it was remade decades later by an American producer, titled The Birdcage.

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We frequently forget what a remarkable age we are living in.

 

In historical terms, recording and video technology is still very new. We will always have the compositions of Bach and Liszt, but we will never hear them as they were played by the men themselves. We will never experience Franz Liszt's amazing charisma for ourselves.

 

How miraculous it is, then, that they great virtuosos of the 20th century got to be recorded. For example, look at Vladimir Horowitz. One of the greatest pianists of his generation. His playing of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #3 so impressed the composer that he said he had never heard the music the way he intended to until then -- even after playing the concerto himself (Rachmaninoff was a formidable pianist himself, and made more money performing than he did composing). And while we don't have film of that particular performance, we do have film and records of Horowitz performing the concerto. And what an amazing thing that is when you think about what has been lost to time and what has been preserved.

 

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Just got back from a front-row seat for the Alan Parsons Live Project, where they played the entire Turn of a Friendly Card suite*, Sirius/Eye in the Sky*, Breakdown, La Sagrada Familia, Old and Wise, (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, and a bunch more.

 

Alan Parsons then sat down after the concert for a signing session in one of the bars. Members of his band were stopping with folks in the line and chatting. Altogether, a great night, and a great band!

 

JoeG

Now listening to "May Be a Price to Pay"

 

*It's a bit surreal to hear Turn of a Friendly Card and Eye in the Sky played 150 feet from the craps tables.

 

There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west

Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise

And not all the king's horses and all the king's men

Have prevented the fall of the unwise

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