What music are you listening to now?

**ExomatrixTV** · 4th February 2023 14:04

The Impossible Virtuosity of Yuja Wang:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qri_DvU_9aM

Yuja Wang Interview:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JdCJzInwyso

**Lefty Dave** · 4th February 2023 18:53

Greetings
I was going through my catalog of original songs written over the decades...and came across this one...that every immigrant should hear before crossing the border...so they know what they're getting into..! The American Dream... https://www.reverbnation.com/leftyda...american-dream ...I'd be grateful if you'ld give it a listen... and a comment ...Blessings LeftyDave

**ExomatrixTV** · 4th February 2023 20:21

Lex Fridman Reacts to Hurt by Johnny Cash:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=csb5FbOosuA

Johnny Cash "Hurt" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach/Opera Singer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-B2zFAHS628

**9ideon** · 5th February 2023 13:35

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**Open Minded Dude** · 5th February 2023 20:49

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XNJqhBmPH-Y

**Anchor** · 5th February 2023 21:53

Posted by Open Minded Dude (here)
Biko

Stunning.... the best version of this I have seen.

This song moved me the first time I heard it on vinyl on a powerful sound system when I was round some rich stoners house in south London in the eighties... the memories.

Multimedia and internet technology certainly improved this song over the years.

I loved this quote seen in the video as well:

"It is better to dies for and idea that will live,
than to live for an idea that will die."

**Michel Leclerc** · 5th February 2023 23:20

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
[*]The Impossible Virtuosity of Yuja Wang:
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Hey John, thank you for this! Yuja Wang is extraordinary.

As an anecdote, she was highly recommended to me like five years ago by a German client who I suspect was not a little inspired to praising her by her choices of clothing – or should I say by her choices of non-clothing.

This, as you can imagine, made me rather more critical of her than she deserved – and moreover, in those times she tended to play pieces like Rimsky-Korsakov’s Bumblebee not as encores but as the main stuff.

Yet (a double yet!) since then I have come to understand that her companion in life is a woman, and this, along with her sometimes flippant way of answering questions she feels to be unintelligent, reveals a note of shyness which moves me. However, the second yet is far more important: all this blinding and extreme virtuosity has long since ceased to be there for virtuosity’s sake, but only serves the content of the music – and Yuja Wang is indeed a phenomenal interpreter of the great masterpieces.

After having played all the War-horses among the piano concertos (among which Rachmaninov’s Third almost as beautifully as Alexander Malofeyev ;-) ), she has been discovering the more austere repertoire of the German and the French schools. I have heard quite impressive renderings of Ravel’s two concertos – but she really has won me over with relatively recent fantastic performances in Brahms’ two Concertos and in Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata op.106.

I’ll just post two links here for you and for the other classical music lovers among the members whom it may interest.

The moving, lyrical First Brahms concerto she plays in 2017 with the Munich Philharmony led by Valery Gergiev during an open-air concert. Here it comes:

Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata is considered extremely demanding because it calls not only for virtuosity but also for stamina and for very rare intelligence of how to build large-scale architectures. After the complex but emotionally relatively straightforward assertive first movement and the spooky, mercurial shorter second one, the real difficulties come. First in the shape of a 15-minute long slow Variation movement, built on a grandiose and emotion-rich winding theme that plunges the listener into abysses of meditative brooding, emotional elation, sun shining through rainstorm clouds and contemplation of vistas in the desert – in which the pianist needs to be able to understand, feel and transmit all the emotional riches. That third movement then leads into the Finale, which is one of the most difficult pieces of the entire repertoire, not in the Bumblebee fashion, but because – after an intentional sort of false start – it explodes in an enormous double fugue (i.e. two fugues one after the other and then a further development where both fugues are combined) in a devilishly fast tempo, interspersed with high-adrenalin thrills, in which Beethoven as it were shoves all music of the rest of the 19th century off the table and writes, one hundred years ahead of his time, the complex music of the 20th century. And: Yuja Wang achieves her interpretation in a way nobody has ever done so before her. It suddenly becomes clear to the listener that this Sonata requires a pianist who has the technical resources she has and additionally understands the piece with heart and mind. Other excellent pianists understand but somehow – to my ears – make the impression of plowing through it. She plays it – with ease ! – at the speed required, as the insane and visionary piece it really is. All to the glory of – not Yuja Wang, but of Beethoven. This is her Carnegie Hall performance of 2016:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, "Hammerklavier"

**ExomatrixTV** · 6th February 2023 12:55

"Think Twice III" Playing on Chipophone ... (Dutch 🇳🇱 C64 SID Composer Jeroen Kimmel)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2nhC_5H8gQ

The C64 demo "Think Twice III", released by The Judges in 1987, is perhaps best known for its soundtrack by Jeroen Kimmel (Red). This is my Chipophone interpretation of the classic SID power ballad.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eY_Uf1KGgTU

Original C64 (1987) version:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hnlxEf7bSJk

So weird that this unique composed C64 song is never played on any "normal" instruments, like using a guitar or piano or trumpet or clarinet etc. etc.

Can anyone play this unique song on a normal instrument and record your efforts, when done share it with us <<< that would be really appreciated

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳