MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi Jeff
Those photos look gorgeous, but I guess would be more fitting if it was December or January. We had a late wet snow fall in early March here in Vancouver which is quite late for my area, and some very light dusting of snow even this past weekend one morning. Winter seems to linger on. I hope it warms up for you soon, so you can enjoy the spring.
Today I went for a walk where I am, and I didn’t need my jacket for the first time, and some white fluffy cottony puffs of cumulous clouds littered the clear blue sky which is an indication of Spring, and it felt like Spring arrived, though it’s supposed to go down to 3C tonight, so not quite there yet. It did feel like a beautiful Any Other Day kind of wonderful day today as Spring made an appearance, and I started dreaming of traveling to a Destination Sunrise.
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Hi Steve,
I come away from the album feeling much hope. There is mystery, danger, concern, as well as brightness, beauty, and hope. The album takes you through a full spectrum of emotions like all great art does, and ultimately lands on triumph and hope. I feel “a lucky fluke” about it all. I love how the album ends with Pretty Little Thing, that reminds what is really important.
In the underlying image of the album art work, you see the stream of people going in the other direction, perhaps that has some meaning. For me the balloon symbolizes the human spirit or our humanity, and perhaps if some of us raise our heads and ask WHY? , things can change and a dystopian future doesn’t have to be.
I saw a thing about Bach’s music a while ago, and it talked about how in much of Bach’s music there is a conversation going on, where a longing question (why?) is asked, with a resolving response, and this back and forth goes on, that evokes much emotion and beauty. I feel this kind of longing “why?” in WHY? too. Perhaps between the vocals asking why, and the cello and orchestra responding. There is an amazing build up with the vocals asking more and more questions, and then there is this big chord that strikes with a response providing a huge sense of release. It’s all so beautiful and fulfilling.
Thanks for the thought provoking post!
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Hi Steve
I think some great observations and perspective on the album cover there.
For me when I see the cover, it resonates of the songs WHY? and Jump Ship, my two most favourite songs on that album, and my #1 alternates between WHY and Jump Ship almost daily, both songs are addictive, absolutely two of my all time favourite rock/pop songs ever.
In the album cover art work, I see what the world will lead to in the not too distant future if we don’t ask WHY? when we see the world around us and see the corruption and injustice and remain status quo and just bury our head passively in the sand like it’s a “safe nice ship”. You see here a line of people walking like zombies drinking the Kool Aid. “We are meant to follow Egomaniacal dreams, some Kool-Aid to swallow”. “We live in a sea of deception and war” where there is a “pact between the devil and the priest”. But, “If You Raise Your Head” you would see what is really happening, and “…look behind the masquerade”. “It feels so nice and warm on deck, but truth is, staying here wont save your neck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the distance, I also see the barren landscape of Lanzarote. I think perhaps that amazing landscape certainly had an impact on Lisa and served some inspiration when creating that amazing work of art album cover.
I love that little alien creature here that appeared in the “Nothing Is In Vain” video. So sneaky!😜 HAHAHA. It’s like that white ghost they had appear on different MLT posts a while back.
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Hi Chris
Here is the legendary conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein’s short speech before the performance with Glenn Gould. This was unheard of for a conductor to come out and say he did not agree with his solo musician, but really what is remarkable is what he goes on to say so eloquently from 2:30 to 3:30 of the video about that refreshing new interpretation by Glenn Gould that made a huge impression on him and made him believe it was important the audience hear Gould’s new interpretation.
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Thanks Jeff, keeping my fingers crossed. I’ll root for you too! 🙂
All the best to you and your family.
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Hi Dave
Yeah, I’m looking forward to some new MLT songs with Papa Rudi on that Hammond. I have some CDs of Bach organ works that I really enjoy too. There is something so stirring and moving about a pipe organ sound like this one. I guess that’s why they used them in churches for centuries.
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Hi Chris
It seems classical and jazz are on opposite ends of the spectrum in so far as classical being really structured and jazz is much more free for the musician to add his own creativity and expression into the piece. I think in classical, musicians and even orchestras add nuanced variation within the structure of the music, and within that fairly narrow room to play are able to add their own unique expression that can make one musicians performance remarkable while another’s just accurate. I think Glenn Gould in some instances has improvised and pushed that envelope. There is one famous performance of a Brahms piano concerto where the conductor Leonard Bernstein before the performance even made an announcement that he did not agree with Glenn Gould’s interpretation, because Glenn played the piece in parts much slower and deliberate than what the accepted speed was. There are even some music critics who complain they hear Glenn and not Bach in some of his works. One thing no one can’t deny is Glenn Gould’s interpretation of Bach is mesmerizing, and listeners return to Bach because of that amazing experience, and I think when a musician can do that, it is job accomplished. Glenn once said what is the point if you are just mimicking exactly how everyone else played a piece.
But as you say it takes a certain skill and genius in the case of Glenn Gould and MLT, to be able to add their own creativity and expression to the music transforming it into something fresh, new and amazing, while preserving the essence and what made the piece great in the first place.
Yeah, Hilary Hahn is a remarkable violin virtuoso. I previously posted here in the forum a movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto performed by Hilary Hahn. An amazing performance.
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Hi Chris
I never knew that about the remarkable night starry sky in Michigan. I lived in Toronto near one of the great lakes years ago, and never noticed the starry sky in particular, but then that area is so urban with city lights stretching almost continuously from Toronto through Hamilton all the way to Niagara. With Michigan situated between the 3 lakes I can see how that can happen. On some cruises late at night when the ship is in the ocean away from any artificial ambient light flooding the sky, you can see a beautiful canopy, and I can see how the old sailors used their sextants to navigate with the stars and using the North Star as a point of reference of north.
Gazing at the starry sky is magical, I can and have done that for hours, and caught a couple of very special shooting stars once. ✨✨
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Hi Tom
I believe they went through Yosemite on that trip as well.
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Hi David
It was from their 2007 trip to California. Love Mona and Lisa’s young baby faces, just transforming from cute kids to beautiful young adults.
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Hi Chris
I remember at the Grand Canyon at night, the canyon bowl is pitch black, and the stars above it was absolutely brilliant, I think Lanzarote must be like that at night if you go out towards the desert area. I love barren landscape like that, there is amazing purity, and you get closer to the truth, whatever that is.
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That is niiice Chris, and love it has extra keys on the bass. I think the lowest human ears can hear is 20 Hz, but that’s probably when you are 4 years old with perfect hearing.
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Hi Jurgen
Wow that is an amazing organ, and the fact it was around when Bach was alive and playing the organ is remarkable too. You hear stories of violins made in the 18th century like the Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri that costs millions to Beethoven’s Broadwood or Liszt’s Bechstein piano that sits in a museum and can still play is amazing. I dream of playing Moonlight Sonata on Beethoven’s Broadwood.
Evgeny Kissin plays on Liszt’s personal Bechstein piano.
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Hi Chris.
Yeah Gordon Lightfoot is awesome, love his Edmond Fitzgerald, and this one. An acoustic guitar, amazing vocals, and inspired song writing, and you get this.
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Here is Glenn Gould and his chair.
