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Maybe I’ve been hanging out with too many ladybodys in Macau, but this is pretty damn cool. Lin Yu sings Dolly Parton classic on Taiwanese talent show Super Star Avenue, giving his all for the $1 Million prize. (Parton wrote and first recorded the song, which Whitney Houston later recorded.)
Adam Guettel is the composer and lyricist for “The Light In The Piazza” – a musical, but really worthy of the title “opera”. I’ll tell you first why Piazza and Guettel interest me, and then following will be more biographical info and article links.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ikqeG4ab3Q
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7HCGpRZDM
Leonard Bernstein. Young people’s concerts. What is Orchestration?. March 8, 1958
Bernstein discusses orchestration beginning with Rimsky-Korsakov live performance examples. He also plays examples of bad orchestration.
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Happy Easter 2010!