The Song Association Game (Music Game for the lazy)

[Thucydides]

Part 2, as promised. This includes the piano passage made famous by United Airlines (which used Graffman's version, btw.)

Bernstein performs Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 2/2 - YouTube

 

[Thucydides]

Blue Danube -- Johann Strauss II

This is far and away the finest version I know of: Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic for the annual New Years Eve concert in Vienna in 1987. The video says it was recorded and released by Sony Classical, which is incorrect. It was recorded and released by Deutshe Grammophon. Never mine the weird ballet dancers.; who knows what the producers were thinking in the 1980s.

 

[beckyblue]

"Rhapsody In Blue" is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard. Period.

"The Blue Door" - Angus Stone

This guy ^ is pretty new to me; he's great.

 

[Thucydides]

Divertimento, movement #7: Blues: Slow blues tempo -- Leonard Bernstein

This is a short little piece that doesn't make a lot of sense outside of the context of the larger piece, but frankly the Divertimento is more interesting for having been written by Bernstein than it is in its own right. Here's a version conducted by Pau Monfort Pitarch with the Unió Musical de Vilafranca (Musical Union of Villafranca). Thankfully, Bernstein has reached a stature where it's no longer the case that the only really good versions of Bernstein's works were the Bernstein performances.

 

[beckyblue]

"Blue Skies" - Ella Fitzgerald

 

[Thucydides]

Cinderella Suites -- Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

Prokofiev wrote a ballet titled Cinderella, and he distilled the music for it into 3 orchestral suites.

This is the passage titled, "Cinderella's Dreams"

 

[beckyblue]

I never do this, but I'm gonna post a double just for one of my very favorite composers of all time, and to bring you all some happy childhood memories...

"Peter And The Wolf" - Prokofiev

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Homosapien - Pete Shelley

 

[beckyblue]

"Empty Shell" - Cat Power

 

[SilverBear]

Full Of Emptiness - Donna Summer

 

[beckyblue]

"Galaxy Of Emptiness" - Beth Orton

Good morning, SilverBear.

 

[SilverBear]

Empty Rooms - Suzi Quatro

 

[beckyblue]

"Full Moon, Empty Heart" - Belly

 

[SilverBear]

Half Moon - Janis Joplin (live, 1970)

 

[beckyblue]

"How High The Moon" - Ella Fitzgerald

 

[SilverBear]

Speaking of Janis Joplin and .... Cavett... it's been said they had a "thing" going on.

Watch this from 28:10 - 28:45 and decide for yourself "Yes, I do!!!" Ha!!!





ETA:
I guess I mean RICHARD Cavett. (sigh... freaking censor).

 

[beckyblue]

Yeah, I'd heard that...talk about an odd couple! (And an odd threesome with Gloria Swanson in the mix!)

 

[SilverBear]

High On Mystic Mountain - Mysterious Art

 

[Crazyinariz]

Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow

 

[SilverBear]

Fly Robin Fly - Silver Convention