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Songs 22 - 29
Sat Nov 14 2009

22. Birches - Bill Morrissey

23. Cavatina – by Stanley Myers, as performed by John Williams
I still have to stop everything and just listen when this song is playing.

24. Nanci – Adrian Legg
Adrian Legg wrote this for Nanci Griffith while they were touring together. This is one of those "gut" songs; I can't explain why the music does what it does to me, but the melody is a mental intoxicant.
Can't find a version to embed, but you can download the MP3 here:
Adrian Legg - Guitar for Mortals

25. Cuban Connections – Outback
You go here to listen to the song; I can’t find a version to embed.

26. Tamacun– Rodrigo y Gabriela

27. Claire de Lune – Debussy
I fear that a quick review of classical music that makes my list will reveal very plebian tastes. Exhibit 1:

28. Shannon Girl – from John Tartaglia’s LP “Good Morning Sunshine”
This MUST be the instrumental version. I heard it with words, decades after first hearing the instrumental, and was appalled. I found one sung version I could have embedded, but if I did so you’d have thought I’d lost my mind.

29. Romance- from “The Gadfly Suite” , by Dmitri Shostakovich
Plebian taste in classical music, exhibit 2:

2 Comments
  • From:
    SitsWithAnAddingMachine (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Nov 14 2009
    You got all hot and flamenco-Latin-y on us there for a minute. I used to date a guy who would sit on the apartment balcony with me and play me beautiful flamenco music on his guitar.

    Your classical music tastes are no more plebian than mine, I'm afraid. I like Debussy and will probably include one of his pieces in my list. The Shostakovich reminds me of another piece I plan to include which is strange because the composer was Italian and probably from a hundred years before ol' Dmitri. It's the soaring strings, I think. One interesting thing about the recording you attached, or maybe it's Shostakovich's skill with instrumentation, but I can actually hear the second flutes. I don't think I've ever heard the second flutes in any recording of any orchestral or band piece before, LOL. It's like they're usually just there for show.
  • From:
    KiwiKimi (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Nov 15 2009
    I'm taking tentative steps towards learning "Clair de Lune". It's a lovely piece, but very much at (or slightly over) the edge of my modest capabilities.