Don, your wish is my command....Here he is in action..this one is real catchy and lively, a complete contrast to my previous,  could almost imagine Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri joining in....Link...Routes Of Spring...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_sN-2LzN0

I just adore Waltz of Flowers. It kind of reminds me of a music box in spots. The video is great too.

MarsGal.....yes agree, I thought the video and particularly their costumes were simply stunning...just perfect for the " classical " title...

Jackie that had me rocking in my chair.

And lest it be overlooked this the birthday of J.S. Bach.  And what is more joyful and triumphant than Praeludium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjrw5bFdGa4

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Bubble, I'm ready!

Mary Ann

bubble.  Now will that hour make any difference to you. It doesn't me. I have always gone to bed between 10pm and 11pm and get up 8am or 9am.  it did bother me before I retired a little. I didn't like the darkness in the morning but like it not getting dark before 7pm
I remember growing up in the UK that it would stay light until at least 9 or 10 pm. Never here in Illinois. Maybe to 8pm
We are having 74 deg here today.

Here a little late. Wasn't watching the clock.

Hi MarsGal
We're all back on the same time settings finally

Nice sound effects. Did I just hear "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"?

MarsGal you did indeed hear  The Bear Went Over the Mountain also known as "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow."

Right, I forgot that one.

New Trivia Quiz

http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=95.msg80205#msg80205

Don, I've just downloaded (to be read at some future date) George Bernard Shaw's commentary on Wagner's "Niblung's Ring". It is the second edition, so it has the benefit of having Shaw reprisal of his first preface. It also has the preface to the first German edition as well as the two English prefaces. Should make for interesting reading. As I recall, Shaw's literary and theatrical criticisms could be pretty sharp. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1487

I should be working on my Latin lesson for tomorrow, but I don't feel like it just now. Instead, I am cruising through Project Gutenberg again. What I came up with this time is a book called Modern Musical Drift by William James Henderson. Published in 1904, it looks like it is a series of essays (or perhaps some of his news articles. Mr. Henderson was a journalist and music critic who apparently covered the Met operas. What I like most, though, is his poem at the beginning of the book which is untitled unless the book title or the first line serves as the title.


Beside the ebon Styx
The brood harmonious wanders slow.
A backward gaze on earth they fix,
And ask, "Where doth dear Music go?"

I fancy Palestrina stares,
And good Scarlatti gasps for breath,
While Handel, with his figured airs,
Bemoans poor Music's early death.

Old Haydn shakes his long peruke,
And Mozart wags his pendant cue,
As both record their soft rebuke:
"What is it that these moderns do?"

Alone in all that troubled throng
One moves with calm, unruffled brow;
For still Sebastian's voice is strong
To say, "'Twas I who taught them how."

So when the storms discordant brew,
You smile at me across the house;
For well you know there's nothing new,
Not even (pardon!) in your Strauss.

Except, perhaps, a fine disguise
Of leading motives, wood and strings,
Which make a score look wondrous wise,
And seem to mean to many things.

So weave your fancies; I'll weave mine;
And let them wander, dark or bright.
The Lords of Art have graven fine;
Perchance we both discern aright.

W. J. H.
August, 1904.

MarsGal that is a delightful poem.

George Bernard Shaw was a critic of renown and when he authored his own newspaper column he did so under the pen name of Corno di Basetto.

All set up and ready to g0

. . .  or maybe not.

Don.  Are you still on your holiday. Can you get on O.K from there?

Sorry I missed the show today. I finished up my taxes; it took longer than I expected.

Check the poetry discussion...

I guess there isn't a show today. There is some kind of interview program on. It also looks like I got a TuneIn beta webpage. ? ? ?

MarsGal I wasn't online yesterday so I can't explain what happened. It is certainly obvious that they care little for anything that does not conform to their weekday format

Maybe it had something to do with Spring Break. I discovered that is this week, so no Latin either.

Meanwhile, here is a lovely waltz with accompanying spring blossoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-coA-mGyQs

MarsGal, thanks for the lovely music and beautiful flowers.  I have snowdrops in my garden.

Mary Ann

Lovely music MarsGal

Listening to Reid's Records for the last time from Israel.

A little late (was doing yardwork), but just in time for Chevalier de St. George.

Oh, nuts! My sound just died.

Hi Mars Gal

Hi Don. I'm back in business. I was typing away and all of a sudden I lost the sound. Must have hit the wrong key, but the sound manager said I was good to go. Rebooted; it came up on mute; took it off mute. That worked. Too bad I missed most of the first St. Georges piece.