Here is a brief clip to represent an opposite approach to Chopin from that of Pogorelich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0TN8VkmqvE

Same here PatH!  So familiar and still... mystery 

Don experienced the same when I sent him a card with music and he could hum it but not identify - so even the experts have these blanks.  That is reassuring: not Alzheimer.

https://biggeekdad.com/2017/05/awesome-violin-solo/

unusual?

https://biggeekdad.com/2016/12/hallelujah-killard-house-school-choir/

10-year-old Kaylee Rogers, who has autism and ADHD, leads the Killard House School Choir in the singing of “Hallelujah”.

Gosh, Bubble, the Kaylee clip is so nice. I don't think I have ever heard the song before. As for the other, it's a good thing I listened to Kaylee second otherwise my ears would still be cringing.

Start your search engines; here's another quiz for you.

1:  Composers Peter Warlock and E.J. Morean totally shocked the citizens of the village of Eynsford when they drove through on a motorbike.   Why?   

2: What famous ballerina died in 1927 when her trademark scarf got tangled in the wheel of her sports car and strangled her.   

3: Name that tune (and composer)  https://www.normalesup.org/~glafon/musique/Quizzmp3/extrait08.mp3

4:  Which composer fathered his first child, Catherine Dorothea in 1708, and his last child, Regina Susana in 1742, and eighteen others in between?

5: In Prokoffiev’s Peter And The Wolf, which instrument portrays the grandfather?

6:   Which composer was a co-guardian of his nephew Karl when the lad’s father died, and then got into struggle with his sister-in-law for full custody?

7: What operetta character is joined in everything he does by his sisters and his cousins (he has  them by the dozens) and his aunts. 

#3 The Moldau by Smetana.

I hope I'm right because my knowledge of composers and their compositions is almost nil.

Mary Ann

#2: Isadora Duncan was easiest for me as she was an innovative woman and not just in dance. Other than newsworthy, I'm really not that familiar with the subject.

1. I remember reading about that a few years ago. I believe they went through town naked on their motorbike. I actually thought this was a relatively recent occurrence, but no. One died in 1930, the other in 1950.

4. Bach

#7, the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, in Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

You folks have proved to be an outstanding group!. All of you answers are correct.
#6 is unsolved so here is a clue:  Several court cases ensued and the composer won all of them and was awarded custody of his nephew. The child then ran away to rejoin his mother on these occasions.  He had no affection for his uncle.

Karl run away to his mother Johanna van Beethoven.  The composer is Ludwig von Beethoven.

I didn't see it listed but the Grandfather part in Peter and the Wolf was played by a basson.

I am following the news on CNN - I am in shock.
Why, oh why???
No amount of security could  have stopped or prevented such an insane act. My heart hurt for all the hurt people, the trauma of those in the audience who just congregated for a fun evening. 

Bubble, I have no words.  It makes a person afraid to go to anything where there would be crowds.  How horrible and shocking. 

Mary Ann

Sometimes I think the whole world has gone nuts.

I agree PatH2. the whole world is decidedly getting less and less civil. It does not bode well for the future.

I agree with you both.  Will it ever stop?

Mary Ann

There have been no words for quite awhile and when those we look to are looking to their own selves above humanity, little will change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFYxRp9K9L4

Unusual Operatic Aria

Bubble, such talent!

Mary Ann

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We had a wonderful treat at our Church service yesterday when we had a guest organist, a Dr. Elliott, who is and has been the principle organist for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for many years and is the organist for their TV broadcasts.  He is in the Augusta area to give a concert on Tuesday at another local church.  At the end of the service we were asked to sit back down after the Benediction and he played a fabulous piece by Bach, one of the Andante compositions.  Our Church has a nice pipe organ and he really got the most out of it with his playing.  His doctorate is from the Eastman School of Music.  Needless to say he got a standing ovation.   

That does sound wonderful Larry. What a treat.

Larry your congregation is truly blessed to have had such an organist in your midst. I doubt if many people would argue that Bach created the most beautiful organ music the world has ever known.

The spooky season is upon us. My neighbor put up her Halloween decorations this weekend. She is big on Zombies. The whole front yard is covered with grave stones, zombies, black cats and skeletons among other things. To celebrate:

Tim Burton's version of Danse Macabre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DOCTWoBM8

The Vampire Masquerade | Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUNOfNad59Q

Two of my favorites:

A Night on Bald Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUNOfNad59Q

Isle of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbtmskCRUY

wow really spooky!  Thanks   I'll have nightmares!

Great selection MarsGal.  I should have used your talents when I was doing my halloween show.

Here's how you synchronise line drawing and music.
http://www.classicfm.com/composers/grieg/news/mountain-king-line-rider/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral