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By Marionville (Page 16 / 179) Posts by members only

Jan 3, 2024Jan 2024

Does anyone remember Englebert Humperdinck, the British singer who had no success under his own name…Gerry Dorsey, but when he took the name of a 19th century classical German composer his career took off with a string of hits in the 1960s & 70s....

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Jan 2, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville

James Thornton was an Irish-American songwriter and vaudeville performer who is primarily remembered today for the 1898 song - When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The song was sung & recorded by many artists throughout last century, the most memorable ...

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Jan 1, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville

I’ve had a wonderful two hours watching the annual New Year’s Day concert from Vienna…a musical treat for both eyes and ears and which now is taking us on a magical journey on one of Europe’s great waterways through 10 countries …with 4 ...

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Dec 31, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

I love musical theatre and many of the stars from the big Broadway & London West End Stage shows, especially from the latter half of last century. One of my favourites was Robert Goulet the powerful French Canadian/American baritone with a 3 octave...

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Dec 30, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Icelandic multitalented percussionist, arranger and record producer Gulli Briem spent two years on the first chapter of his musical journey of the senses, pulling in talented fellow musicians from across Northern Europe & Scandinavia. “Earth ...

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Dec 29, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Paul Brady is a very talented musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer from here in Northern Ireland, a local boy born in Belfast, and now living right on the border between N.I. & The Irish Republic, in Strabane, Co.Tyrone…which is the same...

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Dec 28, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

A few years ago, in 2010, a bunch of young hopefuls entered XFactor UK talent competition as individuals and Simon Cowell put 5 of them together into one group and signed them up to his own label thus creating the pop phenomenon which became One ...

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Dec 27, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

There’s a new biopic movie out “Bernstein” which is controversial due to actor Bradley Cooper wearing a prosthetic nose to portray Leonard Bernstein. Well as his family have confirmed that they are not offended, nor do they think it ...

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Dec 26, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Last night I watched this concert on YouTube on my new 43” Toshiba TV - The Nobel Peace Prize concert, Oslo 2015. I’ve watched it many times already on my IPad, but it was the first time on the larger HD screen…marvellous! The Nobel ...

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Dec 25, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

🎄On Christmas Day I couldn’t not post something from Handel’s Messiah which was first performed in Dublin in April 1742, but is now a Christmas Day essential. I’ve decided not to post the Hallelujah Chorus but my own favourite chorus from ...

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Dec 24, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

I sing a lot of Christmas music, over the years I’ve sung most of the classical, traditional and contemporary songs written in celebration of both the Christian and the older Yule festivals. This carol with words written by English poet ...

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Dec 23, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Joy To The World…the 1719 interpretation of Psalm 98 set to music by English minister & hymnist Isaac Watts, is one of the most popular hymns at Christmas, it’s uplifting and literally a “joy” to sing. I’ve chosen this concert version by ...

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Dec 22, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

On what is the Winter Solstice I thought I post a couple of traditional English wassailing songs…really not carols but pre Christian songs in praise of the natural world and the changing seasons, accompanied by much merriment and drinking of mead, ...

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Dec 21, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Two of the most beautiful voices combine in this song written by Benny Andersson of ABBA…that of renowned Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel and sublime Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebo. The song itself is a masterpiece by the Swedish maestro and it’s...

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Dec 20, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

The BBC’s Dance show Strictly Come Dancing has just concluded its weekly run since September with the winners TV soap actress Ellie Leach and her professional partner Italian born Vito Coppola lifting the Glitterball Trophy last Saturday. Here ...

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Dec 19, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

The Bocelli family ….father Andrea and son Matteo & daughter Virginia singing on Monte Bianco in Italy ….(another one, I posted a different song a few weeks ago). This time it’s John Lennon’s ode to peace and an end to wars…still a vain ...

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Dec 18, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Because we’re only I week away I’ve decided to post some seasonal festive music this week…both secular and religious…starting today with Adolphe Adam’s well loved Christmas song O Holy Night sung also in the original French (Cantique de ...

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Dec 17, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

I missed posting this on St.Andrews Day…Scotland’s national day, because I was travelling to England to visit my son on 30th November. I thought I’d make up for my omission now even if it is almost three weeks late! Highland Cathedral was ...

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Dec 16, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

At this time of the year we think of Santa, reindeers, snow ….and a pretty much frozen landscape. Well that image conjures up the place up near the North Pole where the Sami people live, traditionally reindeer herders, they don’t belong to ...

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Dec 15, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

German rock band Scorpions had a massive hit with Wind Of Change in 1991 which coincided and is now synonymous with, the end of USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here they perform it at an openair MTV Unplugged concert in Athens in 2013 with ...

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Dec 14, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

French composer Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) who wrote my favourite Requiem also wrote this beautiful piece of music, performed here by Radio Filharmonisch Orkest & Chorus, in Utrecht, Netherlands - Pavane (for a Dead Infanta), opus 50.

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Dec 13, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

I’m much closer to heart & home today with a song from Islay in the western isles of Scotland which I sang at school many years ago. Westering Home is a song with words written in 1921 by Glasgow composer and choral master Hugh Robertson and put ...

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Dec 12, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

I’ve posted this French chanteuse a few times before, but as she’s been incredibly successful for almost 40 years and has a huge following not only in the Francophone world but internationally, I’m going back to one of her earlier performances...

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Dec 11, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Many people visit Thailand each year, it’s become a very popular holiday destination, not just for backpacking students on their gap year following the hippy trail of their parents, but as a mainstream holiday destination, especially for ...

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Dec 10, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville

Emily Linge is a British/Norwegian who is based in Dubai. I’ve been a fan of this young singer/musician for quite some time …since she first came to my attention aged around 9 or 10, when she started posting covers of songs…at first of a-ha, ...

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