tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post522276120468102816..comments2023-10-30T10:19:13.446+00:00Comments on Daydreamer: Music hath charms............Ray Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post-29240798883220331392016-08-28T15:18:28.994+01:002016-08-28T15:18:28.994+01:00It should have read "Good luck with that one&...It should have read "Good luck with that one"Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post-38860395671196421402016-08-28T15:14:47.616+01:002016-08-28T15:14:47.616+01:00Good luck with one Fairtrader.
Given the choice ...Good luck with one Fairtrader. <br />Given the choice of that lady or the Mozart I think I would perhaps find I enjoyed the requiem after all.Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post-87784363898306793692016-08-28T12:16:59.725+01:002016-08-28T12:16:59.725+01:00Knitting!!! Well, that has its moments I'm sur...Knitting!!! Well, that has its moments I'm sure. My upbringing was fringed with , lined with, filled with music of all sorts. My mother had a small assortment: Puccini, Sinatra, Ella F, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis and more Sinatra. Grandma filled up with Opera and Operettos and my cousin came rambling with Beethoven, Bach and...Mozart. Since my days in churchchoirs began, I too have sung loads of sheets from the classical school. <br />Requiem is odd , if you ever saw the movie or the play "Mozart" there is a red line laid out about that particular work. It is as you say, very different from his other work, the red line, true or not, tells of a sick, dying Mozart with the ghost of his father haunting him to finish the piece and Salieri, malvolently helping him.<br /> I like it, but there are times when it sends shivers down my spine. Not shivers of pleasure, that is. But I don't think you are being crotchety ( what kind of word is that??) . Your mind is set on emotions, the music sets fire to the emotions that are currently in move in us. Or needs to be moved. Sometimes the same music you needed badly last week will sound repulsive and dull today. <br />Saying that, I will soon head for that meeting with Florence Foster Jenkins !!Fairtraderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02517527131786415943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post-28099120313203451452016-08-27T23:24:57.536+01:002016-08-27T23:24:57.536+01:00These days the church choir is as far as my musica...These days the church choir is as far as my musical experiences take me, apart from the very occasional TV programme.<br />I still have a head full of music but appear to have lost the 'off' switch, more a curse than a blessing.<br />Quite often I find I wake in the night with a bit of a tune running round on a loop, don't know what it is or where it came from or what has set it off but find it has gone when I wake in the morning. I then spend half the day trying to remember how it went. <br />Sometimes I wish my life had been devoted to knitting:-)Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7948117492116997244.post-19022786959460382252016-08-27T18:55:06.217+01:002016-08-27T18:55:06.217+01:00While I don't have nearly the musical experien...While I don't have nearly the musical experience you do, Ray, I admit that I can't quite decide about the Mozart Requiem either. Sometimes I love it and other times my ears glaze over. Fortunately, there is so much other wonderful stuff out there that you've got plenty of alternatives!Penelopepiscopalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110169815273159849noreply@blogger.com