The Black Keys on the Piano....

Check this out, and then go watch the recent movie by the same name....





RFSJ

Music...and Dancing!

Researcher Daniel Levitin wants to know:

THE fall concert season has begun at music halls around the world, and audiences are again sitting in rapt attention with their hands folded quietly in their laps. Does anyone besides me find this odd? ... Most of us would be shocked if audience members at a symphony concert got out of their chairs and clapped their hands, whooped, hollered and danced — as people would at a Ludacris concert. But the reaction we have to Ludacris or U2 is closer to our true nature.

I don't know how Ludacris is (although I do know U2), but I think it might be fun to sing along with a Mozart symphony. Or how about Beethoven's Fifth? Da Da Da Daaaaah!

Read it all here.


RFSJ

I bought an MP3 player today

I've been walking to work a few times a week, and up till now I've used an older Panasonic portable player for my music. It did the job more or less, but it finally died - for whatever reason it just wouldn't work anymore. So I broke down and bought a MuVo V100 MP3 player from Creative. I've spent the evening adding music. Here's what's on it so far:

· Rinaldo - Handel (artist unknown)
· Masters of English Church Music, Cambridge Singers
· Hail, Gladdening Light, Cambridge Singers
· Offenbach in America, by the Boston Pops
· Joy on Earth, Music of Taize by the Taize community
· The Classic Hoagy Carmichael
· Trompette et Orgue, Maurice Andre

I'm still trying to figure out how to organize the albums on the player.

And is there a place I can link to albums besides Amazon?

RFSJ