My mom sent this link, the Royal Choral Society fulfilling their traditional Good Friday singing of Handel's Messiah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQYVbd1Gwg&feature=youtu.be

Weird thing for me is it's the sopranos part that really moves me. 

Lovely music of course.  The funny thing about almost all of these collaborations is that while it's clear these folks are at home in front of their computers and phones (and sweet that they dressed up for it) we are not hearing audio from their homes.  The audio is clearly a previously recorded performance, in a concert hall, with a pipe organ.  So what we have here is an assembly of videos of the entire group lip-syncing to their own recording.  Still sweet that they went to all this effort.  It's a bear just to sync up and put all the video together.

The French orchestra which did Ravel's Bolero this same way DID actually start with audio from the player's homes.  Then about 1/2 way through it switches to the orchestral recording (which they are playing along with) and it's quite a hair-raising moment. 

There are always going to be creative folks doing clever things and it's a comfort to have projects like this to keep music going for everybody.

Cheers,
Jimmy J

33 years ago today, it took five to Tango.





For all the weirdness in the title cut, Tango In The Night was loaded with hits, and was going to be a huge success. Then Lindsey Buckingham quit/got fired, right before the World Tour.     <deja-vu mode>

Dirty Mac:


Peter

❤️ I Find This To Be Most Exemplary . I Love It ❤️
Bach Music on a Nyckelharpa. A Swedish Folk Music Instrument.

Quote from: sonicus on April 13, 2020, 10:47:36 AM
❤️ I Find This To Be Most Exemplary . I Love It ❤️
Bach Music on a Nyckelharpa. A Swedish Folk Music Instrument.

That is Groovy! Swell! Neato!  Peachy keen!   The bee's knees!  The cat's pajamas!
In short, Most Exemplary, indeed!  Thanks, Wolf.

Peter

Well, that is just about the wildest thing I've seen in a while, Wolf. It's like a cross between a Hardanger fiddle, and a typewriter. It's definitely related to the Norwegian Hardanger. (see the sympathetic strings?) Precision lever-like machinery applied to noting a viol. Fascinating. The Octo-bass has something like this. There are only about 8 working, playable octo-basses in the world. Yeah, that's worth a listen... lemee go look for that.

*here 'tis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-i9YHzmE&feature=youtu.be

Heard Linda sing this on the radio on the way in to work this morning at 5:45... and been thinking about it ever since. (I think Mica called it an earworm) Funny intro to Lowell George's "Willin'"... no idea if she just came off the cuff with that story or not! Hard to say! 



This was a GREAT band.

Gregory ,  Regarding the Octo -Bass ; If I am not mistaken the lowest pedal tone that can be produced on some cathedral organs is also 16hz C-0 . Very Kool !   I have an audio Oscillator that I have dialed down to a 16Hz Sine Wave . The speaker that I used was an old Cerwin-Vega B48 loaded with an 18" JBL K151 . I still have that cabinet in my basement sitting on a pallet .

In memory of the Titanic going down 108 years ago today, Jamie Brockett:



Peter

Molotov Jukebox; if you're thinking the singer looks familiar, she's Natalia Tena - Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter movies & Osha in Game Of Thrones:



Peter

Poncho Sanchez,
Soooo smooooth 

Aerosmith's Livin' on the edge

Trombone Institute of Technology

Allan Holdsworth VELVET DARKNESS CD with bonus tracks - Been listening to tracks 11-14 non-stop for the last few weeks. Mike B.