Dave Bruebeck is a default lately

Lula was a girl from a humble town
She had a mean drunk daddy; liked to push her around
He sold what he called 'poor man's cocaine'
But the police called it methamphetamine
One night she sunk her knife in the small of his back
Ain't no one gonna find where she buried him at
She hopped a train up the river into Omaha
Did some dirty damn things and bought a broke-down car

She'd say 'I ain't getting younger, I just wanna feel good
I ain't gonna do what you want cause you tell me I should
I'm just gonna sit right down, have a smoke
Somebody buy me a beer; somebody tell me a joke

Now people do funny things to numb their pain
And Lula drank liquor to forget her name
She used to sleep it off under an old Oak tree
In the Pontiac she bought with her money from the streets

She'd say "I ain't getting younger, I just wanna feel good
I ain't gonna do what you want cause you tell me I should
I'm just gonna sit right down; have a smoke
Somebody buy me a beer somebody tell me a joke

She was crying for a life that she never knew
What could have been, how it was and what she oughta do
She wipe the tears from her eyes and shut her mouth
When her feet hit the river all the lights went out

She'd say "I ain't getting younger, I just wanna feel good
I ain't gonna do what you want cause you tell me I should
I'm just gonna sit right down; have a smoke
Somebody buy me a beer; somebody tell me a joke
Somebody buy me a beer; somebody tell me a joke

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

This is great.

:party: I love the whole album.

Any links to the whole album?

I was inspired to relisten to Ground Zero - Consume Red by your song:

Any links to the whole album? — Moliere

https://open.spotify.com/album/1PokAFXFycM6g47eIQ9jIn?si=UcL2cSGeR0G11PvYE74u6A

I was inspired to relisten to Ground Zero - Consume Red by your song: — Moliere

I'm 25 minutes in and the drums have just entered the battle. :up:

I have a vertiginous feeling that I've heard it before, or even used to be kind of into it, and I've since forgotten it. :chin:

I found the Noto/Sakamoto album because I was having a look through the releases by the Ensemble Modern. Another one I liked:

I used it in one of my old OP's, so maybe that's where you heard it before.

I used it in one of my old OP's — Moliere

Interesting. What was that about?

What counts as listening?

It was 5 years ago so it's been awhile.

Oh yeah! That was interesting. I even contributed a few posts myself, so maybe you're right and I heard it there.

To be fair I couldn't find it anywhere else so had to look through my own posts because I remembered using it at one point. It surprised me that it was 5 years ago.

Of course as almost always I never actually got to the part where I have an answer....

I expect I've posted this before, but it's been hitting hard tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtokk3dj1Hk

Finnish web programmer friend of mine (Whom I never met, and I suppose don't really know ever existed) showed me this. Back when we were kids. Well, I was 15 or so. Think the person was 20. We both ran pretty successful sites at such a young age (nothing big or money-heavy just it's own niche community, not unlike this one..)

Huh, I was just listening to Chopin's nocturnes in Sokolov's rendition the other day:

And this "Notturno" is just impossibly gorgeous...

Nice :) -- I gave both a listen and both are beautiful.

Thankyou.

Here is one that has an actual philosophical background. Serenade after Plato's Symposium is probably my favorite of Leonard Bernstein's works. Though the composer himself said that the work did not have a literal program, its structure does follow Plato, and its themes can be tied back to its source material:

• I. Phaedrus; Pausanias
• II. Aristophanes
• III. Eryximachus
• IV. Agathon (the most beautiful and moving part, in my opinion)
• V. Socrates; Alcibiades

Young Hilary Hahn plays like an angel in a recording that also includes Beethoven's violin concerto:


Another recording with the fiery Janine Jansen and the LSO:

I love pipe organ music!

How about this?

Ned Rorem's violin concerto is a recent discovery for me. It is featured on this recording with Gidon Kremer and Leonard Bernstein, together with Philip Glass violin concerto and Bernstein's Symposium:



Rorem is better known for his songs. Here is a beautiful selection sung by Susan Graham: