what band/musician do you listen to today that ceased to exist before you were born?

@RenFur Had to go WAY back, didn't you? 😁

Every 4th of July we still listen to George M Cohan and John Phillip Sousa

@eli1601

So - - you've seen and much enjoyed Yankee Doodle Dandy, eh? Even though - personality wise - Cagney was as far apart from Cohan as possible? (Not a swipe - just an anecdote I picked up somewhere - maybe from TCM)

@RenFur I'm sure many actors, who portrayed famous singers and actors, were different personality wise from those people. But the songs remain the same.

@eli1601

True. Alec Guinness and Hitler, for example. Good point.

@RenFur Gershwin himself playing, so you know it's the perfect tempo and time compared to modern pianists.
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@NativePortlander1970

A musical hero of mine. Great comment.

@RenFur Thank you so very much

@NativePortlander1970

Gonna bore you with a fact - - the main piano solo in the first playing of Rhapsody in Blue was improvised. The score was a blank page. I just now googled this to see if my memory was correct...

@RenFur That is way Too Cool :)

Another genius pianist, his gun finger is Amazing.
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@NativePortlander1970

I bow to you. You have excellent taste. Another hero of mine - - and he was one helluva ladies man to boot.

Read what he said to Tallulah Bankhead when they first met. LOL

@RenFur Thank You so very much, my Dad loved all of their movies :) You'll have to tell me what he said.

@NativePortlander1970

@RenFur If you ever want to watch an amazingly poignant film based on real unknown history, you have to watch this.
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@RenFur Quite forward for the time.

@NativePortlander1970

I'll see if I have it.

EDIT - - I do. I promised Jsul3 I'd watch 3 Frankenstein movies - I've watched the first 2. Tomorrow I'll watch Son of Frankenstein and the one you recommended :D

@RenFur The one song every fan of Bugs Bunny knows.
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cc: @beermeplease

@NativePortlander1970

Yep - LOL.


Ever stand at the conductor's podium while the music played? You can hear every note from every instrument. That's why when you see the conductor get upset during rehearsals he can pinpoint who made a mistake.

@RenFur I have always wanted to

@RenFur And people only know the last three and a half minutes of this, but wonder where they heard other parts of this as well and never connected them.
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@NativePortlander1970

I'm one of those people. I've never heard the whole piece either.

EDIT: Ha! I recognize the melody from 6:19 til just past 9 minutes when a new melody starts... very good, NP!

@RenFur I have loved the entire piece from childhood, my Dad had the full album of Rossini's overtures and I'd listen to it over and over, along with Beethoven's symphonies. Here's another favorite, best viewed in a dark room on full screen.
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@RenFur I often go to bed listening to this
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or this
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@NativePortlander1970

Intellectuals love Bach - - I can't say I do. Sorry.
But... I'll give it a listen. Now.

EDIT: I think I know why I don't care for Bach. I was never exposed to it. For example, I like movies from the 1940s and much of the background music in the serious films featured piano and violin concertos by the well known composers like Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and the like - - from the Romantic period. All turgid, melodic stuff with lots of dramatic flourishes and fireworks.

@RenFur I was exposed more to Baroque like Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, the most, the more serious stuff.