Showing posts with label other composers that live now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other composers that live now. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2019

What was Trobar Clus?


Well, it was the kind of symbolic poetry, also sung, which was about as hard to get without explanation as ...

Don McLean - The meaning of American Pie (UPDATE)
lonestarsound : 16.II.2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc


I was giving the like 777 on a comment saying ...

Don McLean was once asked, for the umpteenth time, "What does American Pie really mean?"
"It means I don't have to work anymore", replied Don.


... which was more of a quip than this kind of indepth answer./HGL

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

England is Still Musical!


Back in the days that the Pen and Pension blog writes about, the English were among the nations most eager to play music at home.

Pen and Pension : Music at Home
Posted on April 5, 2017
https://penandpension.com/2017/04/05/music-at-home/


Georgian England is the England under Kings (or Usurpers) George I to George IV - 1 August 1714 to 26 June 1830 (at the broadest definition, the Pen and Pension blogger might have a narrower one).

This is some time ago, so it is interesting if Englans is still musical.

Judging by this Oxford girl, that is the case:

Why music should be beautiful... Alma's message for Carinthian Summer Press Conference
AlmaDeutscher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yf_pbVvIWk


She is not just a musician, but also a composer./HGL

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Is Ennio Morricone waiting for Box Office incomes for My Name is Nobody?

I tried to access this video (more for Terence Hill than for Ennio, but now it was mentioned, yes, the film music was good).

Terence Hill - My Name Is Nobody ( Full Movie English ) 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxqc4lae7bI


Cette vidéo inclut du contenu de SACEM, Believe Music, Studiocanal, [Merlin] Rossiter Road UK LTD et de UMPI. Au moins un de ces propriétaires l'a bloqué dans votre pays pour des raisons de droits d'auteur.


Ennio Morricone is not even mentioned. Not "this video contains material belonging to Ennio Morricone" but "this video contains material belonging to SACEM".

If that is the problem.

Or perhaps Believe Music claims the rights to Morricone's music? If that is the problem.

Or perhaps StudioCanal is worried if the video is not blocked, they earn less on lending videos with the film.

But they did not perhaps produce it? How can they then own it?

The company was founded in 1988 by Pierre Lescure as a spin-off of the Canal+ pay-TV network. The original function was to focus on French and European productions, but later made strategic deals with American production companies. StudioCanal's most notable productions from its early years include Terminator 2: Judgment Day, JFK, Basic Instinct, Cliffhanger, Under Siege, Free Willy, and the original Stargate movie. In those days, it was known as Le Studio Canal+.


I am not disputing they have a moral as well as legal right to earn money by lending out copies of My Name is Nobody.

But they do not have a moral right to block everyone else from giving access to the film in other ways, including for free. If they are the problem.

Now, I looked up Rossiter Road. They are on LinkedIn:

Rossiter Road Uk Ltd
http://www.linkedin.com/company/rossiter-road-uk-ltd


We would like to meet artists/musicians of all kinds to help them to make know all around the world, to sell their musics.


If that is honestly what they would like to do (never mind the spelling mistakes, they will correct it no doubt to "help them to make them known" or sth), they are not the problem, they did not ask for that blocking.

Ennio is hardly in need of them to get known and blocking a youtube is hardly making anyone better known.

But, let us suppose that Ennio Morricone has given one of above a legal right (though not a real moral one) to act like this, that gives NO ONE of them any kind of even merely legal right whatsoever to go about - no doubt through unimportant underlings who can be promptly sacrificed if I should succeed - blocking artist after artist who heard of me from playing my music and sending me voluntary royalties.

The composers who buy into this system may or may not have a moral right to do so if they think they would otherwise be ruined by plagiarisers (would Morricone take my place as a beggar if this video were not blocked? I do not think so) BUT neither they nor these right holding companies have any kind of right to take such a decision for a composer who does NOT wnat to sign up on this system.

I am not begging because of all who play my music without paying me. But because my music is not played for paying public by artists then paying me voluntary royalties. And this has come to be so persistent, despite a very prolonged campaign to get played, that I suspect some mighty men are involved in a kind of blockage.

Hans Georg Lundahl
BpI, Georges Pompidou
St Aloysius Gonzaga
21/VI/2014

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Music from my Country, Sweden

Nisse Nordström spelar nyckelharpa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZoigDmYxx8


And "nyckelharpa" is the instrument, a bit like a crossbreed between violin and piano .../HGL

(Since he is from Uppland and my ma from Sörmland - the regions North and South of Stockholm - we speak about the same dialect, although I spent most of my life in Malmö).

Update: More Nyckelharpa.

Slängpolska från Närke
Jonas Malm | added / Ajoutée le 23 févr. 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1OMw6MGQV8


However, with this one, the composer could be an anonymous person who already died./HGL

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Happy Name's Day, Paul McCartney!

Let It Be (The Beatles)
http://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-The_Beatles-Let_It_Be-lyrics,p10790


A fine song. I was even wrong to see something necessarily non-Christian about lines like:

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see


Yes, there is a chance that they will see how the solutions offered by Melinda Gates and George Soros just suck.

And if that was not quite what you meant, it is still not bad for the world to know that hearing one's mother's voice is not a mental disease, despite some erroneous definitions among certain people.

However, I also very much like, and musically prefer:

Mull Of Kintyre ~ Song "Mull Of Kintyre" (c/o mrtibbs6912)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Y6xFOPPW0

http://www.breizh-partitions.fr/partition/486_Mull_of_Kintyre

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Jonathan Peters : Lothlorien

Link on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ZHO7ufyCk


Sorry for lack of own compositions so prolonged, have had tiring months which left me little inspiration for composing and no access to music sheets with prelined paper (although, as you cna see on some, I sometimes do without it)./HGL

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Kelly Family : Santa Maria, prega per noi

youtube, user kemelifemeli, The Kelly Family, Santa Maria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfTMMlQ69o


When stated "given to mother" it does not as otherwise mean I sent her the manuscript sheet music of one composition of mine, but that I posted it - this link - on her FB page./HGL

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Judarne Czys, Muddy Waters, Rolling Stones ...

Kan bara meddela att mellan Rolling Stones och Beatles är jag snarast Presley, derefter McCartney*. Att judar äro bra på musik är ingen hemlighet, men smakmässigt är det ibland ngt ... jag kan intet klaga på Heinrich Schenker eller Georg Riedel, men Czys och vissa typer klezmer äro ngt annat. Se förresten citatet från SVD Kultur/Nöje:

sparad länk = http://o-x.fr/2i7l

–Både judar och svarta ville samma sak, skaffa ett bättre liv och tjäna pengar. Pappa insåg snabbt att de svarta var som svenskar. De ville kunna ta en drink.

I mitten av 1940-talet startade Leonard Chess nattklubben Macomba Lounge på South side. Här hängde konstnärer, hallickar, prostituerade och jazzmusiker. Det dröjde inte länge förrän han fick frågan om det gick bra att spela in jazzgrupperna live.

Tillsammans med sin bror Philip köpte han 1947 skivbolaget Aristocrat, som hade kontrakt med blueslegenden Muddy Waters. Tre år senare döpte de om bolaget till Chess Records. Vänskapen mellan Leonard Chess och Muddy Waters blev själva stommen i den musikaliska inriktningen som via elektrisk blues ledde till rock’n’roll.

Blueslåten Rollin’ Stone med Muddy Waters 1950 blev ingen hit men med den tongivande elgitarren och den starka rösten var Chicagobluesen född. Rolling Stones skulle något decennium senare ta sitt namn från den låten.


Hvad var sednare Rolling Stones' stora hit? "I can get no ... satisfaction ..." (rythmiskt icke helt olikt den mkt bättre "We don't need no ... education ..." af Pink Floyd) och från dem kan jag knappast få ngn "satisfaction", nej.

Var det ngn som sade att rocken som judiskt fenomen var ett högerspöke? Och var det ngn som sade att kyskhet och anständighet vore en dygd praktiserad af judiska män - se då efter hvad historien berättar, jag tänker intet citera det.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
6-II-2011
BpI, Paris

*Mull of Kintyre ... men icke vegetarianism, får be!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Georg Riedel



Hej Georg! Tack för fina låtar, eller dekyje (blef det rätt nu?) som man säger i Karlsbad!

Skulle du eller ngn i fam. taga dopet, säg till, det vill jag intet missa, under tiden Schabbes Tov!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Howard Shore

His site.

I love Lord of the Rings as music, whatever I think about Peter Jacksons cuts and remakes.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Jeg bukker meg !

Bent-Fabricius Bjerre er kompositøren til de musikalske deler af Flåklypa Grand Prix, der jeg like er ved at ha set.

Munharmonika-themaet er vidunderligt smukt!