What are you listening to now ?

Sergei Lemeshev (I posted a few of his clips before) was one of the greatest tenors of the 20th Century. What made him even more unique was his vibrato.

This is Lensky aria from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin"


And here's Fritz Wunderlich, whom many consider to be the greatest tenor of the 20th century (he wasn't but Gigli didn't sing either the German or the Russian arias), with the same aria but in German)


And here's a young Placido Domingo (in Russian, no less), the vocal parts starts around the 3rd minute mark.


And here Nicolai Gedda, (a Swede with Russian ancestry, who grew up in Germany and fluently spoke five languages)

 
This dream scene was originally planned to be recorded in Technicolor, but it did not happen.


I know, way too early, but a Technicolor masterpiece:

 
A 70s bestseller with scenes from Mutiny on the Bounty filmed in 2.76:1 Technicolor.


Tahitian dance and drum scene from the same movie:


Marlon Brando got married to the girl in the clip.
 
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DLD said:
RIP, Rick.
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In the spirit of this board, think we have to include:


The video was groundbreaking in many respects. It's probably hard for those who came along later to appreciate the complexity of what was done here. It was made by the NY production company Charlex who were doing pioneering work in the visual effects field. As I recall from an article I read at the time, each individual element that was shot (on Ikegami HL-79's, the top video camera of the day) was laid onto separate tape machines spread out amongst the facility, all wired into the same suite. This was before the technology existed to synchronize tape decks together automatically, so each machine had to be manually rolled at the same time with the hope that the timing would be just right. If it didn't work, they'd keep trying it until it did. When you look at how many elements are in some of these sequences, it's really impressive.
 
Listening to everything Alma Deutscher today.
I'm on beer 3 so be warned :)
I really like the violin around 15:38 and onward.
Very nice and relaxing melodies. Perfect for the mood I'm in right now.

Reminds me a bit of Hungarian music, for lack of, shall we say, a better education on the subect (I know DLD is here haha)

But yeah. Very nice.
Ignoring the fact that she also wrote this entire thing...
I just like it. Period. -Cheers.


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This clip I screen-grabbed from Twitch awhile ago that 'That Violin Chick' improved to a song I requested.
I had a bit of quick fun with it in post. The original is much louder and no video post work.
She just likes having fun and improvising to everything and takes requests also.
Detail links to her on my vimeo page. Just a fan is all.
Post Edit:// her link:: https://m.twitch.tv/thatviolinchick

Anyways I LOVE her improv melodies. Man, I wish some well known band would take her in the studio for a song and get her on it!

I usually wouldn't post anything like this here on dvx but...
1/ I have received permission to share it from her. (Initially just a private fun thing to do.)
2/ Life is too short.
3/ On my 4th beer? Does that count?

Again, it was never meant to be shared. But as Steve Buscime once said "Ah f' it. Let's take a look at that Sierra."

Pass:TVC.

Post edit:// Oh, I recieved a copyright violation for posting that one (352151430), not by TVC but by which I suspect was from auto-bots searching for musical signatures. I'm confident no laws were broken here and all permissions to share were recieved by TVC. Artistic Expression as defined under the Criminal Code. :)
 
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... Reminds me a bit of Hungarian music, for lack of, shall we say, a better education on the subect (I know DLD is here haha) ...
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I only know a few words of Hungarian. But, in terms of culture, the Hapsburg empire, centered in Vienna, was a dominant European/global force.

So, speaking of the Hungarian tunes, these are technically not. Emmerich Kalman may have been born in Hungary but mostly worked in Vienna and most of his librettists wrote in German.

This is the "entry aria" from "Gräfin Mariza", sung in German by Elizabeth Kulman ... but in Hungary.


And here she does a Hungarian verse from "Csardasfürstin"


And this is the Hungarians singing in (original) German on tour in Stuttgart in the early 1980's. Also from "Gräfin Mariza". "Komm mitt nach Varaszdin". The female lead is Marika Oszvald, who's a national treasure over in Hungary.


This is from Franz Lehar's, "Das Land des Lächens", the same Stuttgart concert


Fast forward thirty some years. This was from Kalman's 125th birthday concert. In Hungarian from the "Little Dutch girl".

 
groveChuck said:
Fasten your seatbelt- the aliens have fled the asylum...

Too Many Zooz - "Bedford"

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Imagine having a hangover and being on your way to work despite your hangover when these yahoos show up with all that clatter and obnoxiousness. I'd want to kick them in the nads and smash their instruments. Subjecting people to really loud, boisterous, in your face music performances whether they like it or not just isn't cool. Particularly in a setting where they have little choice but to suffer it. And you can tell from some of the expressions on the faces of people on that train that they aren't happy about some third-rate NOLA brass-band ripoff being all up in their grill while they commute.
 
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Imagine having a hangover and being on your way to work despite your hangover when these yahoos show up with all that clatter and obnoxiousness. I'd want to kick them in the nads and smash their instruments. Subjecting people to really loud, boisterous, in your face music performances whether they like it or not just isn't cool. Particularly in a setting where they have little choice but to suffer it. And you can tell from some of the expressions on the faces of people on that train that they aren't happy about some third-rate NOLA brass-band ripoff being all up in their grill while they commute.
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lol. New Yorkers are used to this. Very normal everyday stuff.
 
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