Autumn is in full swing. Here is Luca Morelli with his composition, The first Leaf of Autumn.

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I've known of 2Cellos for some time, but never paid attention to who the players were. I only became aware of Hauser himself within the last year. This composition was written by Christopher Ball specifically for him and was first performed in 2010.



Less well known perhaps, Luca šulić, who loves the music of Vivaldi, took two years to adapt Vivaldi's Four Seasons for cello. Here he is performing his arrangement of Vivaldi's Winter from The Four Seasons.

https://youtu.be/KdmOVf8eam4

acapella group 'Straight No Chaser' perform  "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

What fun, Bubble, with a song I always enjoy listening to. I got to thinking about who wrote the sone and found this. https://performingsongwriter.com/lion-sleeps-tonight/ Sadly, stories like this are so overwhelmingly familiar. Here is Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds, the original.

I like that song, but not that particular version.

It sure has gone through a bunch of modifications since Soloman Linda wrote it.

https://youtu.be/TFsZy9t-qDc?feature=shared

 Now, 65 years after its release, the song has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. That makes the song's original performer, Brenda Lee, now 78, one of the oldest artists ever to top the chart.

Good for her! 
She looks great and sounds great. 

Amy Beach came up while I was researching the poet Sara Teasdale (the composition posted in the Bookshelf section). I haven't listened to an Amy Beach composition in a long, long time, soooooo - I checked out what YouTube had in its listings and ran across this one. I am listening to it now.

Kicking off the pre-New Year's Eve celebrations and thinking of Don this morning.

Spike Jones and Homer & Jethro join forces to poke fun at opera in this recording from the early 1950s.

Related to my last post in "Just Plain Old Music". Geert Chatrou whistling Monti's famous Csardas. Apparently he started whistling at the age of 4 in 1969 and now does this sort of thing for a living.

Peter Schickele, classical music parodist behind the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/

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Interesting parody of the Neil Sedaka classic. I'm guessing this was posted in the wrong topic though since it has nothing to do with classical music.

Pachelbel's classic played entirely on steel guitar.

Here are a few pieces for this Memorial Day.

Mars -  Thank you of posting all three videos for Memorial Day.  The second one, a tribute to WWII Veterans, was beautiful and very moving.  It brought back long ago memories of my father in his Navy uniform.  The young woman who sang the solo has such a lovely voice.  Overall, it was a perfect presentation.

I know, Marilyne. I tend to tear up when I hear such presentations. And then too, I thought of my Dad and how one of his photos would have fit right in with those shown.

Another of my Dad's favorites.


And this is funny! Don't miss it.

A nice rendition of Ravel's classic Bolero from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Bolero was the very first to come to Dad's mind when I asked him what his favorite was. I forget, now, who did the recording that we had when I was little.

Another from my Dad's small collection. The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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One of my favorites from Dad's collection. Charles Munch, Daphne et Chloe.


The other side of the recording was Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun.

My favorite composers when I was younger: Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Rimsky Korsakov. Over the years I've added Rachmaninov, Dvorak, Hovhaness.

Here is Wynton Marselles performing Hovhaness's Prayer of St. Gregory.

One of the more famous classical pieces that were made more popular thanks to their usage in cartoons. This was the basis of two cartoons from 1946/1947 - the Looney Tunes short "Rhapsody Rabbit" and the Tom & Jerry short "Cat Concerto". Both cartoons featured the protagonist attempting to play this piece while being tormented by a mouse running amok in the piano.

This version really gives you an idea of just how intricate this piece is and how difficult it must be to play.

More for summer!

An interesting rendition of Liszt's famous 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody by Mexican pianist/bandleader/composer Esquivel.

And now for something completely opposite of what's usually posted here... A classical music style cover of a Cher song. Apparently this group recorded a couple of albums in the 70s but never went anywhere.