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A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

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Posts Tagged "poetry" By Marionville (2355) Posts by members only

World Music
Jul 28Jul 28

Posted by Marionville
It’s a sad reflection of how we as humans never seem to learn any lessons from previous wars and keep sacrificing our young men on the altar of some leader’s ambition, greedy expansionism and imperialist ideologies…especially applicable today...
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World Music
Jul 14Jul 14

Posted by Marionville
German Lieder is a form of poetry set to music and performed by a solo singer and a pianist which German composers such as Franz Schubert established as a distinct music genre in the early 19th century. In the 20th century German baritone Dietrich ...
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World Music
May 23May 23

Posted by Marionville
I’m going back to Brazil again with the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, but this time it’s the maestro himself at the piano with his ensemble of musicians and singers performing live in Canada at Montreal Jazz Festival in 1986. The whole ...
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World Music
Mar 1Mar 1

Posted by Marionville
I’m off to visit my family in Leicestershire in the heart of England this weekend so I’ll leave you with this English Folksong which is based on the Rudyard Kipling poem “A Tree Song” set to music by Peter Bellamy. Oak and Ash and Thorn - ...
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World Music
Feb 10Feb 10

Posted by Marionville
Niaz Nawab is an Iranian multi-instrumental musician, singer and songwriter now exiled and living in Paris, her music fuses Persian poetry with western sounds. Here she performs her composition titled The Sea accompanied by Paris Philharmonic ...
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World Music
Sep 21, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Marionville
Something classical today…a tone poem based on Finnish mythology- Luonnator by Sibelius and performed by Ukrainian Soprano Olga Kulchynska with Radio Filharmonisch Orkest conducted by Karina Canellakis in Utrecht, Netherlands. Finnish composer ...
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World Music
Apr 18, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Marionville
I thought we’d stay in New Zealand today after yesterday’s post of Kiri Te Kanawa, but this time to concentrate on Māori music with stage performance of Moana - songs Tolou Tagaloa/Te Vaka (We Know The Way) with Orchestra at Michael Fowler ...
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World Music
Mar 25, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Marionville
I’ve always liked the traditional English folk song ….and this one is a particular favourite which I’ve sung since childhood, first in school choir and then more recently with my current choir…it’s from the West Country…Somerset where ...
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World Music
Feb 16, 2023Feb 2023

Posted by Marionville
There’s something very calming about harp music…and traditionally Celtic music quite often incorporates it in their melodies. The song The Isle Of Innisfree was written by full time Irish policeman and part time composer Richard Farrelly in ...
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World Music
Dec 6, 2022Dec 2022

Posted by Marionville
This is just an adjunct to my post yesterday re Norwegian musician, singer & frontman of a-ha - Morten Harket. In the 1990s Morten was very affected by exiled Russian Poet Joseph Brodsky’s poem about the war in the former Yugoslavia titled ...
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World Music
Oct 11, 2022Oct 2022

Posted by Marionville
Today I’m sticking to the island I live on…the island of Ireland, to the west coast - to the Irish speaking part called “The Gaeltacht”. We have two beautiful young singers - Linda NicLeoid & Niamh Farrell singing traditional Gaelic song ...
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Mar 2, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Marionville
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian poet, author and Nobel laureate..a dissident who fell foul of the Soviet authorities and was expelled from Russia 1972. With the help of friend W.H. Auden and other supporters he settled in the USA and obtained US ...
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World Music
Nov 29, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by Marionville
We’re here in Ireland today with one of my favourite Irish songs. It’s called the Meeting Of The Waters and it was written as a poem by Thomas Moore in the 19th century and later set to music and recorded as a song, I first sang it in primary...
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World Music
Nov 11, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by Marionville
🌺 Because today, 11th November is Armistice or Remembrance Day, let’s listen to this song and think about all those earlier generations who fought and died supposedly in the war to end all wars…and those who subsequently died in the many ...
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World Music
May 16, 2021May 2021

Posted by Marionville
We’re on a trip to the South Pacific Ocean and the island of Tonga today...with Tongan group Tree Manu performing in poetry, song and dance - Afe Ane Loa.
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World Music
Feb 24, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by Marionville
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian poet, author and dissident who was persecuted and imprisoned in the Soviet Union, but lauded in the West as one of Russia’s great poets and visionaries. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1970 and settled in the ...
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World Music
Jan 24, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Marionville
We hardly ever cover Germany in this World Music group, strange really when many of the top classical composers were either German or Austrian. I’m going to remedy that today in a small way by posting music by Franz Schubert, the king of German ...
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World Music
Oct 30, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Marionville
Miriam Makeba ...nicknamed Mama Africa, South African singer, songwriter, actress and UN goodwill ambassador & civil rights activist. Here she performs Malaika in Swahili live in 1969.
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World Music
Oct 20, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Marionville
Today I’m staying close to home with this song...in the West Country of England, to be precise, in Dorset. It is Linden Lea, originally a poem written by William Barnes sometime around mid 19th century, which was set to music by Ralph Vaughan ...
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World Music
Jul 22, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by FrayedBear
Do you know the work of Jane Peppler?
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World Music
May 29, 2020May 2020

Posted by GipsyOfNewSpain
Joan Manuel Serrat My favorite Spanish singer not only from my days in Spain but from before... He recorded poetry of Antonio Machado into a song... "Cantares" but became better known as "Caminante no hay camino"... in the link you can see 3 ...
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World Music
Mar 5, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by GipsyOfNewSpain
Being the Oldest Colony in the Known Universe... Protest Songs in Puerto Rico continue Banging our Heads and Ripping our Hearts as if it were the 60's in a Radical College during the Vietnam War. And One of the Greatest Protest Songs ever... just by...
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World Music
Feb 17, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Marionville
Morten Harket made an album in 1993 called Poetenes Evangelium in Norwegian. It’s an anthology of old Norwegian poetry set to music, and Morten worked with a group of present day Norwegian poets and musicians in what was a...
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World Music
Jan 25, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by Marionville
As I promised yesterday...because it’s 25th January and Burns’ Day in Scotland, I’m posting my second of his songs. This is one I particularly like and have sung it as a solo many times. Ye Banks And Braes O’ Bonny Doon. The ...
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World Music
Jan 10, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by Marionville
Morten Harket - Natten. This live performance on Norwegian TV has him singing a song from his solo 1993 album which he released shortly after a-ha split up for the first time. The album is called Poetenes Angelicum and it’s the ...
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