MLT Club Member Jürgen
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An impressive scene, Jung. Full of emotion and poetry. Poignant and impressive at the same time. Yes, music can do fantastic things to us, an ability that we learn early and that accompanies us throughout our lives. Perhaps the first rhythm of life that we experience is the heartbeat of our mother. About 60 to 70 beats per minute at rest. This is the beat and the rhythm that will guide us throughout our lives. Music with about 60 beats per minute is experienced as calming and relaxing. Everything that is faster is experienced as either positively stimulating or threatening. And there we are again with the young Beethoven. A lifelong learning process begins. Music and life are coupled with each other. Music that we experience in an intense emotional situation will trigger this emotional state again and again later on. This is the jukebox of our life. Choose the right coin and press the right combination of buttons and the most beautiful feelings and images will flow through your head. Of course, if you hit the wrong button, the opposite can happen. Especially in difficult situations and times music can help us not to despair and give up. To relax and regain a positive feeling of life. Why this is so who knows? You can try to find a philosophical and poetic explanation for it, or you can choose a more sober view: neurophysisological and neuropsychological processes in our brain (the more exciting approach for me). Both are very interesting aspects. Neither approach can fully explain the phenomenon of music. You have chosen the poetic path, so I would like to follow you on this path, as I know you want to encourage us. If you could ask a bird why it can fly, it would answer you: “I don’t know, I just can”. If you could ask a dolphin how it perceives this world with its sonar, it would look at you questioningly and answer: “I have no idea what you mean. I see the world as I see it”. And so it is probably with the music. If you had asked Beethoven or Bach how they managed to compose such complex and wonderful melodies, they might have answered: “I have no idea what you mean. I just follow the inner melody in my head and write it down”. And if you would ask me why I like a certain song, I would answer you: “It’s just wonderful music that I feel comfortable with, more I do not need to know“. Wherever the key is that allows us to open the door to our inner harmony, the important thing is that we know it exists and that we use it. A form of magic inherent in all the arts. And empathy is also a form of art: to understand what your counterpart means, to reflect it and perhaps to give it back in a completely different way. Like the director of the movie „Immortal Beloved“ did it by dealing with the history of Beethoven, feeling and sensing the emotions of the music and rendering them in images. Empathy is a beautiful way to communicate with each other. Perhaps that is what music is: it is a universal language that we use to communicate with each other. When words and language are missing, melodies can build bridges. Just like the mother of a newborn hums a melody to signal to her child: Everything is fine. Whatever happens, we will make it.
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Caro Emerald (NL)
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Sharon den Adel and Anneke van Giersbergen (NL)
(If you’re ever into symphonic metal, these are the most successful singers and bands on the scene: Sharon den Adel of Within Tempation, Floor Jansen and Tarja Turunen of the group Nightwish, Simone Simons of Epica, and Anneke van Giersbergen of the band The Gathering. Also the German band Beyond the Black around the singer Jennifer Haben could establish themselves in this music genre. Tarja and Floor have trained opera voices: in combination with the metal sound i like that very much).
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Silvy de Bee (B)
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Laïs (B)
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Kim Wilde
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Kim Wilde
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Hi Jung, thank you for your posting. Sidney Poitier became known in Germany through the movie “In the Heat of the Night”. I liked the movie a lot. He was a very likeable actor. It is a pity that he passed away. LuLu is a very beautiful song and the movie seems to mean a lot to you. Even nicer that you own the original vinyl soundtrack from 1967. That’s pretty cool and certainly a valuable treasure. Can you still play the record or has it suffered a lot from all the playing?
Making a long list is one thing. It is much more important that there are wonderful, interested people who look at it. Thanks to everyone who persevered up to this point. With such a long topic, I am sometimes not sure when the right time has come to stop. But I think as long as I still get feedback here, not everyone has fallen asleep or switched off. If I don’t hear from you anymore, then I know: now it’s time to go to bed. 🙂
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Hi Jacki, a beautiful song and a great voice. And thanks for the information about the history of the song. Very interesting. It’s funny what twisted paths some songs take before they become a hit.
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Beautiful music David and a great idea. It makes me feel wanderlust. During our trips to Southeast Asia, we just turned on the TV more often in the evening and watched local TV stations. There are many music programs with regional or national music. It’s surprising how many Asian women play electric guitar and drums so damn well and the selection of rock and pop ballads is almost immeasurable. Here I have chosen a Thai musician. Her music is representative for a very popular music style in Thailand, among younger people.
PS: since I am not a native english speaker, it is completely normal for me not to understand lyrics, but I just follow the sound of the voice. So the voice of the singer becomes another instrument for me. I also like to do this with english songs. I don’t listen to the words, but to the melody of the voice. Of course, if I focus on the lyrics, I understand the content, but sometimes it’s just nice only to follow the melody of the voice.
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J.S. Bach also sounds wonderful on the guitar:
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Hi Jung, here I have two more examples of how classical music can be transposed to alternative instruments.
In another topic we had introduced Tina Setkic with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Here she successfully tries her hand at Vivaldi:
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That is pretty cool David! I wonder if they already knew at that time what kind of music will roll towards them later?
PS: Maybe they were time travelers trying to avoid a time paradox. Their performance should be only a hint to the future of music. We will never know.
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