httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ieK7Lv9Rbg
Here’s some more Dwight Yoakum. Guess I’m feeling a little homesick and Dwight makes me feel good. I lived south of Bakersfield for almost twenty years playing country music there and across the US, so Dwight’s my homeboy.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxSh-SvFVA
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy9EixCPPG4
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyajDA_Ywcw
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lUqvCQT3pk
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTiz3bK8M-o
Here’s two versions of Dwight Yoakum singing “Ain’t That Lonely Yet”. I love this song. I remember back when I played country music in Southern California I would sing this song, and well…..I like it, a lot.
I’ve lived in China over a year now and I don’t know any Cantonese or Mandarin. Surprisingly it’s been difficult to find a private tutor for Mandarin. Cantonese is the main language spoken where I live (Macau and Hong Kong), but variations of Mandarin are spoken throughout China. I had an interpreter tell me the best way to learn is to start with Mandarin and then go into Cantonese. Mandarin has four tones and Cantonese has nine.
Continue reading “My First Private Lesson in Mandarin Chinese”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot5-WuAjE
This is one of the most important historic recording from 19th century. This recording contains the voice of great English poet, Robert Browning (1812 – 1889). Although the recording is very inaudible, it is still worth to hear one of the greatest poet of Victorian era.
It was recorded in a dinner party given by Browning’s friend the artist Rudolf Lehmann, on May 6th, 1889.
Continue reading “Robert Browning Recites His Poem (1889 Edison Cylinder)”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XINDnU3y1Qs
Check this out: A clip from the Beverly Hillbillies featuring Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flintstone, yabbadabbadoo! You’ll be watching a real person, but swear it’s Fred!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TfAyX8l5-g
This is my #1 favorite song in all of music. If you are interested in more information on this piece, I have a previous post with translation and background information here:
https://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2006/11/ave-verum-corpus-wa-mozart/
Ave Verum Corpus by W.A. Mozart.
This is a thought on the language of music and how my personal vocabulary has changed since working with Cirque and working in China.
I don’t know if this would qualify as a “paradigm shift”, but I had an eye opener today. I had a friend send me a video of a music performance. It’s a group that plays a style of music I used to play. And when I watched it, it was like a foreign language to me. Like something distant I recognized just faintly. And this was a style of music I played for many years.
Continue reading “Personal Evolution on the Language of Music”
47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
Embedding for most of the videos has been disabled, probably because of the high traffic, but you can watch a video clip of her on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg
It’s moments like this that make a life in the arts so rich…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw
Q was visited by country-pop band The Boxmasters. The Boxmasters’s biggest claim to fame is that their singer is Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton. If you were listening, you heard what could best be described as a ‘showdown at the Q corral’ when Mr. Thornton took offense to our mention of his cinematic accomplishments.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj4ohpzU4vQ
Freddy singing “before the next teardrop” and “wasted days and wasted nights” New Mexico State Fair 2003. Conrad Askland is playing keyboards with Freddy in this video. Not a great video, but just happened to run across it while surfing YouTube. Augie Meyers is also playing accordion with us in this video.