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[shadesong]

I find it...strange...that Elayna's chosen get-ready-for-school music today is "Dona Nobis Pacem".

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[malver.livejournal.com]

Anyone's setting in particular, or the chant? (Actually, my training's more than a bit defective on the subject of Renaissance-and-earlier, and I'm not aware off the top of my kep if the latter half of that statement makes sense; so perhaps I should stick with the part where I know somewhat that I'm talking about...)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

It's on a Girl Scout tape. It just find it unusual that she's listening to that over and over rather than the more modern songs on the tape!

[malver.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. (I was remembering vaguely that the Vaughan Williams setting, which if I even have heard it hasn't been in awhile, is anything but peaceful, but I may be mistaken *g*. But that didn't seem a likely answer, either!)

[malver.livejournal.com]

(3 hours later and still waiting for the email notify on this, whereas most of my notifies today don't seem to be much delayed. Odd. Some were yesterday. Well, blame it on loaded-servers, 'suppose...)
(Gets ready to plan to draw up the blueprints to lay out a five-year plan to outline a schedule to sketch out a timeline for preparing to set up a study committee on the feasibility of getting to his next appointment today...)

[chelona.livejournal.com]

Great song! :) I personally love it too.

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

I find it strange too. Haven't you turned her on to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's "Pictures At An Exhibition" yet? It's your responsibility to educate in the Classics ya know.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I don't know that *I've* heard that, even...

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer or "Pictures At An Exhibition"?

Mussorsky (also well known for "A Night on Bald Mountain" ( which you might remember from Disneys original Fantasia)) did a famous piece called "Pictures At An Exhibition" after viewing an exhibition of a friend's work on display. It includes sections like The Great Gate of Kiev and The Hut of Baba Yaga.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (a 70's future-rock band along the same lines as Yes or the early Genesis) have/had a habit of always including their rendition of some classical work on all of their albums. However, their third album, "Pictures At An Exhibition" was their take of Mussorsky's famous work (the 'one' odd song on *that* album is a non-classical piece.

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

And so, dear Rob, you answer a question which has been plaguing me since 6th grade, when our art/music teacher had us listening to ELP. I have spent all these years knowing it was ELP but having no idea what the pieces where, or where to find them.

Now I'm going record shopping!!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

The Tamson House Groupmind at work!

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

ELP is the top of my list of favorite bands. Introduced to them from their beginning in 1971, I have followed their rise and fall virtually without fail. As to the classical pieces (and skipping live and re-releases) here are a few:

ELP: Knife Edge (adapted from Janacek's "Sinfonietta)

TARKUS: Toccata in F and Prelude VI, Bach

TRILOGY: Hoedown (from Copland's Rodeo Suite), Abbadon's Bolero (very Bolero-ish, but not exactly Ravel's Bolero - kewl nonetheless)

PICTURES...: already covered. The non-classical piece is the ending, "Nutrocker".

BRAIN SALAD SURGERY: Jerusalem; Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement)

WORKS: Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Prokofiev's "The Scythian Suite" 2nd Movement

LOVE BEACH: Canario (from Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre)

BLACK MOON: Prokofiev's Romeo And Julie

[melvh.livejournal.com]

One of my very favorite albums. Alongside Rick Wakeman's "Six Wives of Henry VIII" and Renaissance's "Scheherazade & Other Stories".

...speaking of which, I need to go listen to those now....

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

As I said, ELP is my all time favorite. For Xmas, I'm asking for the huge CD set, "Return of the Manticore". While Brain Salad Surgery is my favorite album, I think the Works Vol. 1 album was their best. Each allowed to do what he wanted on one side and the 4th side all three together. They're great in concert too.

And I got all of Rick Wakeman's albums, too - coole stuff.

I was happy to read that Annie Haslam of Renaissance still tours solo. I think I read somewhere that Renaissance is tring to put together some kind of show in Britain. Can't remember eactly waht it is supposed to be

[yendi]

It's more interesting when you realize that she was playing it on her Barbie Karaoke machine.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

One of the weirdest things I ever did was play Judas Priest on my nieces Teddy Ruxpin. Ah, the incredibly high-pitched strains of "Livin' After Midnight".

*collapses in hysterical giggles*

[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

I must be an uncultured oaf, because I have no idea what that is o_0

[malver.livejournal.com]

The original, is I believe part of the Ordinary of the Mass (Dona Nobis Pacem- Give Us Peace.) Has been set to music by very, very many people over a period of a thousand years or so... Which specifically here, I'm still not positively sure *g*

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[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

Thanks... I'm getting all edumacated today =)