MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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In Rock and Roll, we have pieces like this that is so moving. Just a simple solo piano melody that goes on and on until a gentle voice joins in. The first time I heard it in my teens was from one of my older brothers awesome vinyl collection. It sounded so beautiful and peaceful.
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Sometimes the most beautiful music is just a simple melody by a single instrument. I heard this today that seemed to make time stand still. In this piece, the entire orchestra hushes, and just let’s a single piano voice carry it away accompanied by gently strumming violins. I think one of Bach’s most beautiful moments. Music to tame the beasts.
https://youtu.be/KuOXcO43yTA?t=209
Bach Concerto for Piano No 5 in F minor (2nd movt) BWV 1060
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Hi Sara
Oh that is niiiice! Nothing as special as an MLT art work painted by Mona or Lisa to hang up in your place.
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With Valentines Day just around the corner, “Any Other Day”, is the perfect song of love and passion.
Those lyrics are so genius! The melody and the singing just captures my heart! Only truly inspired songwriters can create amazing songs like this.
It fills me with joy every time.
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Here is an interesting article about John Lennon’s original draft handwritten lyrics for “A Day In The Life” sold for $1.2M in 2010:
“The late John Lennon’s fans proved once again that money is not a matter of concern when it comes to acquiring personal memorabilia/items belonging to their idol. At a recent auction held by Sotheby’s in New York, John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to A Day in the Life sold for $1.2 million! The price is way over the pre-sale estimate of $500,000 to $800,000. The huge sum fetched by Lennon’s lyrics to the final song on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band made the lyrics the top-selling lot in a sale of rare books and papers.
The single sheet is dated Jan. 17, 1967, and has Lennon’s writing in black felt marker and ballpoint pen of the first draft of the song, with amendments made later in capital letters. A private collector who bid by phone is now the lucky owner of these handwritten lyrics.
Besides Lennon’s lyrics, L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables printed in Boston in 1908, sold for $25,000 at this auction while a series of 40 letters and postcards, including sketches, from French artist René Magritte to the Belgian Surrealist poet Paul Colinet sold for $218,500.”
It’s certainly a plain looking scribble, but holds such great value and an intimate connection to John Lennon, each scribble formed by John’s hand, his thoughts and ideas expressed physically through his hand on paper, so very personal.
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Hi Jeanette, so sorry to hear about what happened, it was such a tough and sad couple of weeks for you. I’m so glad to hear you found solace in MLT music. MLT are a beacon of light in a dark world, and I don’t know what I’d do without Mona and Lisa. Their music and creativity have certainly soothed and healed me over the years. My thoughts are with you and your friends with the loss of their son, and your daughters class mates family.
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Hi Jacki, yes MLT’s beautiful endless creativity is so inspiring, got me back on my piano during the lockdowns. Mona and Lisa were their day after day for me in the MLT Club while the world spiraled into darkness. All their running and advocating for fitness and health even got me running again regularly, and I’ve been feeling great. Got myself some new runners with the biggest massive slab of foam cushioned soles I could find for ease to my knees, and it feels like I am Walking and Running In the Air. Mona and Lisa are so inspiring in so many ways.
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Thanks Christopher. The Duo Sessions are the best. Years ago I use to love catching recitals put on by local music societies of fine musician artists doing piano or violin recitals. You sat in a private little room, and they would perform. The Duo Sessions are exactly like that, intimate front row seats to Mona and Lisa as they perform, so close you get to see the guitar strings vibrate, and see the passion filled love and expression in their faces as they sing and play. I love this little Duo Session corner, each acoustic performance of a cover or their masterpiece originals is a musical work of art, like an artists elegant gallery we get to step into.
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Hi Dave, yeah it makes me wanna sing too. I love the lyrics in the song, right from the very beginning: …Any other day, I would have walked home right away, but some lucky fluke made me stay, and instead turned my world on its head, it is funny how life works that way…
It is so poetic, what a story that draws you in like a trailer to an amazing movie, so raw about real life and how love and destiny or providence work. Masterful song writing.
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JP,
I love Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, it’s one of the reasons to get a nice set of headphones to listen to that song undisturbed as loud as you want. And I know what you mean that amazing instrumental beginning to the song as you anticipate that guitar magic to kick in anytime! Keeps you on the edge, waiting, then the incredible howling guitar notes kick in. Gotta go listen to it again, but before I do, I have to mention there is a real magic around the number 7. In life and in nature, there is a cycle that goes through a roughly 7 year period, before something changes or repeats. In economics there is a 7 years cycle for things to happen, I’ve experienced in my own life things change every 7 years or goes through or lasts 7 years. I’ve read also about how in nature, things take 7 years to finish, for example, all the cells in a human body takes 7 years to fully change, meaning every 7 years, you are physically different in that every single cell would have been replaced, then of course there is the 7 days weekly cycle….That Pink Floyd song lyrics “all movement is accomplished in six stages, and the seventh brings return…” has some profound truth and meaning to it.
Here is an interesting article about it: The number 7 is much more prevalent in nature than most of us realize: There are 7 oceans, 7 continents, 7 vertebrae in the neck, 7 layers of skin (2 outer and 5 inner), ocean waves roll in sevens, the rainbow has 7 colors, sound has 7 notes,….
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Hi David,
Yeah Lisa really swings and sways to the song as she sings at that part, really engaging. I’m not familiar with Melanie, but I presume Lisa is doing just what comes naturally to the rhythm and feel of the song as they both put so much passion and feel into what they play. I like the simple guitar note that repeats in a beat at the beginning. My dad had an old album with solo harmonica on it, and there are passages where the harmonica has a distant and lonely moving feel to it that sounded so amazing and left a lasting impression on me, and when Mona starts playing the harmonica piece here, it evokes that amazing feel. She has really mastered that instrument.
Yeah, in that Michael Nesmith album, the transition between the song Rio and Casablanca Moonlight is really nice with that swooshing wind sound and the sound of a motorboat, and then the guitars kick in with the beginning of the next songs Casablanca Moonlight. Really effective transition, it does evoke a feeling of being transported from Rio to Casablanca.
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Hi JP
Yeah I noticed that too in “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma”, the vocals really build up at the end, and it feels like an emotional catapult. Very breathtaking, loved it. I agree, I think Melanie will love what Mona and Lisa have “…Done to My Song, Ma”! 😁
Interesting topic you bring up about silence between the tracks on an album. In that Q and A I found the talk about the silence between songs quite interesting that Mona and Lisa mentioned, and how they make final changes on the album “all of us listening to the album and then deciding if the silence is just right” . I notice between “WHY?” and “Pretty Little Thing” a particularly longer silence than in the rest of the album.
The silence, or in some cases as you mentioned absence of silence between songs has an impact. It reminds me of Mozart’s quote “the music is not in the notes but the silence in between”. I would think this applies between songs or movements too. It wasn’t only Mozart, but other composers/musicians have expressed the same:
“Music is the silence between the notes”
Attributed to Debussy and also Mozart
“…..the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides”
Artur Schnabel
“Music starts in the silence”
Stephen Hough, pianist”
It took me a while to chew and digest that idea, and did a little research on that topic and found a number of explanations of the interpretation of silence in music, some even philosophical. The one that makes the most sense for me is this:
“Music depends on silence: rests, pauses and silences help to delineate and define different sections or whole movements of the piece, and distinguish or highlight other periods of sounds. Silences allow melodies, dynamics, rhythms, and expression markings to have greater impact and bring drama to the narrative of the music.
Composers have always appreciated the value and drama of silences – a kind of musical “withholding of information” which has the power to retain the memory of what was heard before and create a sense of anticipation of what is to come. Silences create drama and relax tension, and provoke a whole range of emotions from anger to longing, nostalgia to excitement, terror to peace. A pause after an unresolved harmony or cadence can create a silence which is tense and fraught with emotion.” I always notice in a classical piece when a movement ends, there is a silence that the audience is expected to adhere to by not applauding, and then the next movement begins. That silence is important.
In some of Beethoven’s works, he does the opposite and removes the break or silence between movements like in concept albums you mentioned, for example in his 5th Piano Concerto between the 2nd and 3rd movement there is no gap and music continues straight through for an effect, the same in his Moonlight Sonata between the 2 and 3rd movement, in the 4th Piano Concerto and a few other works. But the majority of his works follow the structure of silence between movements.
Interesting topic about silence.
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Hi Jurgen
That was absolutely fascinating, thanks for finding and posting it. I never thought so much handwork went into the process of making that master mold for the vinyl. It’s quite a process, and one minor error and you ruin so much work. Each vinyl is produced from those plastic pellets melted into a soft disc that is put in the molding machine where the master mold creates those precious vinyl albums. There is actually a lot more involved than I imagined in creating one vinyl album. In the end it is a very fancy sophisticated waffle machine! Now I can appreciate even more what went into creating our precious albums like Orange, and WHY? in the future. Our Orange albums looks like took a nice mixture of orange and white pellets, probably blended together first in a blender before going into the waffle machine. Learned something new today.
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Hi Len
I like piano jazz, sometimes enjoy listening it to it live. Apparently there is a connection between classical and jazz in Beethoven’s very last Piano Sonata No 32. He was completely deaf by this time, so it played in his head/imagination, but he was already anticipating future direction in music to jazz in his life time.
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Hi Len, thanks for info about the Soprano Sax. Sting certainly expanded the scope of his music after he left the Police. Brilliant stuff.
