Posts Tagged ‘music’
Singing in Occitan. Beautifully.
A week or two ago I hear a recording on Radio Scotland of Dawn Upshaw singing Baïlèro, one of the Songs from the Auvergne: a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France arranged for soprano voice and orchestra or piano by Joseph Canteloube between 1923 and 1930 […] in the local language, Occitan. […]
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Tags: Dawn Upshaw, Joseph Canteloube, Language, music, Netania Davrath, Occitan
Creative printing
This is great fun. For anyone who’s got old printer/fax/scanner hardware kicking around. All you need is a bit of creativity. Brother ‘Printer Orchestra’ by Chris Cairns from Partizan on Vimeo. Disclosure: having tried — and not at all liked — Canon and then Brother, I’m delighted and very relieved to be back with Epson.
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Tags: creativity, faxes, Life and work, music, printers, scanners
Music (2): Lucio Dalla, R.I.P.
One of my very first dates with my (now) husband was a concert by Lucio Dalla and Francesco De Gregori in Taranto, in 1979. We were to meet in the doorway of the apartment block where I was living. Vito was about half an hour late, having forgotten the time while in the shower. For […]
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Tags: Caruso, Lucio Dalla, music, Taranto, Uncategorized
Music (1): Davy Jones, R.I.P.
This blog is primarily about language, but words take on a special power when they’re combined with music. So I’d like to dedicate this and the next post to two singers who died this week and who both meant a lot to me at different stages of my life. The first is Davy Jones, an […]
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Tags: Davy Jones, Joanne, Mike Nesmith, music, Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees, Uncategorized
I haven’t had time to post anything recently as I’ve been working on Milngavie Book and Arts Festival, as Twitterer-in-Chief (follow the Festival on Twitter) and Deputy Webmaster (ie, I mess things up and the true Webmaster, Anne Nelson of Intuitive Internet (isn’t that a great name?) sorts them out). If you live in Central Scotland […]
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Tags: art, Books, festivals, Milngavie Book and Arts Festival, music
Words to good effect 