I am going through a classical music stage.
On NPR I heard a beautiful swirling piece composed by Franz Liszt. I went home home to see if I could download it in my e-music budget.
Franz composed a number of pieces made for opera. Some of the opera were Verdi and others were Wagner.
Its amazing what the piano can do as a musical instrument. These are not your usual piano pieces, but rather thundering and wistful melodies that work together to conjure great numbers. Talk about playing with feeling. I don't see how a pianist could play these without getting lost in the emotion.
Another classical hunt sent me looking for classical underpinnings of Wynton Marsalis. He has some very important position at the Lincoln Center. He is known in many circles for his jazz interpretations. I used the same service,(emusic) and found some very brilliant recordings of classical "pop" selections such as the Flight of the Bumblebee and Carnaval of Venice (their spelling). Also there were a few Allegros and other classic numbers by Haydn, Mozart and Hummel otherwise known as the trumpet concertos. Overall pretty cool stuff.
There was a U-tube video of Wnyton Marsalis with the rock violin player, Lucia Micarelli. So.. of course I had to have an album of that.
So off I go into the classical music jag.. Kind of fun.
: ) Pat
A written expression of a 65year old plus retired Speech and Language Specialist in the Central Valley of California.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Using the Facebook "Chat"
Way back in the day...
Kelly, my sis and I would communicate using AOL in chat rooms. It was pretty fun. We could type back and forth and have a great chat without the worry of the huge expense at that time of phone calls.
Our technology has changed things and also it has come back again in a more intimate way. Whereas we had to pick a "room" and jump in.. Facebook allows a personal written communication through typing with anyone that is identified as your friend and happens to have Facebook open. In the last week I have been picking people off my friend list and communicating through their chat line. Francisco in Rome is just a live chat away. I picked him up browsing through facebook at about 1:30 in the morning his time and about 5:30 our time. We had a great chat and added his sister to my facebook friend list as a result of it. A student in one my classes is also on my facebook as a friend. I had a nice post Christmas conversation through typing in the IChat section too. Kelly has been there and we have continued the typing chat tradition.
In the old AOL format she could carry on conversations with as many as 6 people at once through this method. I am not sure that she is doing the same thing now but the thought is intriguing. We used to get in a public room and ask inside questions back and forth. It drove some other folks in the rooms nuts. I would anticipate her response and have it typed up so that when it came through there was a quick reply. If the response was not what was expected then I would delete what I had written and re do another. What fun.
So you facebook people give it a try.. its really neat.
Kelly, my sis and I would communicate using AOL in chat rooms. It was pretty fun. We could type back and forth and have a great chat without the worry of the huge expense at that time of phone calls.
Our technology has changed things and also it has come back again in a more intimate way. Whereas we had to pick a "room" and jump in.. Facebook allows a personal written communication through typing with anyone that is identified as your friend and happens to have Facebook open. In the last week I have been picking people off my friend list and communicating through their chat line. Francisco in Rome is just a live chat away. I picked him up browsing through facebook at about 1:30 in the morning his time and about 5:30 our time. We had a great chat and added his sister to my facebook friend list as a result of it. A student in one my classes is also on my facebook as a friend. I had a nice post Christmas conversation through typing in the IChat section too. Kelly has been there and we have continued the typing chat tradition.
In the old AOL format she could carry on conversations with as many as 6 people at once through this method. I am not sure that she is doing the same thing now but the thought is intriguing. We used to get in a public room and ask inside questions back and forth. It drove some other folks in the rooms nuts. I would anticipate her response and have it typed up so that when it came through there was a quick reply. If the response was not what was expected then I would delete what I had written and re do another. What fun.
So you facebook people give it a try.. its really neat.