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旅行美食

美食天地

一個步入中年才開始學管樂的貪吃大叔無聊亂寫一通的地方


無聊亂寫的小茶几

下午茶

音樂藝文

星期三音樂會前，把手邊最後一片 Tenor 用的 Rico 橘盒 3 號竹片拿出來備用，果然派上用場。平常使用的那片竟然在音樂會當天破了，尖端出現了「必岔」，只能報銷，手邊竟然就此一片不剩。於是趕在連假前下單補貨，結果連假最後一天就收到貨了，而且驚喜地發現：買的是 10 片裝，寄來的卻是 12 片裝

文化生活

職場

以行動支持創作者！付費即可解鎖

音樂之路

音樂會

包裝

版本

樂團

連假

Rico橘盒補充品入手

端午正陽午時酒

心情點滴

午時酒

相傳端午節的正午時分（中午12時），是一整年中陽氣最盛的時刻，可以輕易將雞蛋立起。 立蛋成功的人，就能吸取天地正氣，獲得好運。

立蛋了！

這次管樂團音樂會，樂團上低音薩克斯風損壞嚴重，臨時使用一把具有30多年歷史的Jupiter JBS 593巴薩（上低音薩克斯風），這把巴薩經過桃園朱老師維修後音色良好，但仍有些音準問題，對於管樂團音樂會演出還是十分稱職的。

創作

巴薩

老師

演出

維修

爵士

桃園

古董巴薩風重出江湖

今天抓猴子，果香韻味很濃厚的一款，不辣順口 開車不喝酒，喝酒不開車

吃了

彩排中，請勿餵食

彩排中

夏天來臨，頭期瓜好吃！

吃了！

甜蝦刺身一起走路

這篇文章探討烏託邦的概念，從其詞源、歷史演變到相關文學作品如陶淵明的《桃花源記》），並延伸至音樂作品中對烏託邦的詮釋，例如華格納、馬勒、約翰·藍儂和麥可·傑克森等人的作品。文章最後以即將演出的音樂會主題曲《Utopia》為例，點出其對和平與希望的嚮往。

電影戲劇

"You see, my son, here time turns into space!" Verwandlungsmusik (Transformation Music) and grail procession from Act 1 of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal (1882).

Conductor: Sir Georg Solti 
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic)

Recorded in 1972, remastered in 2003. 

Label: Decca
Year released: 2003

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Wagner-Parsifal-Dietrich-Fischer-Dieskau/dp/B00006469Vi

Parsifal - Verwandlungsmusik - Transformation Music - Wagner - Solti

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D-minor - 6th Movement (VI, Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden)
Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

"In the last movement, words are stilled—for what language can utter heavenly love more powerfully and forcefully than music itself? The Adagio, with its broad, solemn melodic line, is, as a whole—and despite passages of burning pain—eloquent of comfort and grace. It is a single sound of heartfelt and exalted feelings, in which the whole giant structure finds its culmination. The movement begins very softly with a broad D-major chorale melody, which slowly builds to a loud and majestic conclusion culminating on repeated D major chords with bold statements on the timpani" - Bruno Walter.

(C) ALL their respective owners.

Mahler - Symphony No. 3 - 6th Mvm (VI, Langsam. Ruhevoll. Empfunden) - Bernstein

Imagine - The Ultimate Collection - the audio box set: http://bit.ly/imagine-ult
Imagine John Yoko - the definitive book: http://bit.ly/imaginejohnyoko
Imagine film remastered - BluRay/DVD: http://bit.ly/ImagineGST-Amazon 

IMAGINE
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try
No hell below us, above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today...

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger - a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world... 

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono 

John Lennon: vocals and piano
Klaus Voormann: bass
Alan White: drums
The Flux Fiddlers: strings
Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector
Recorded at Ascot Sound Studios, 27 May 1971
String overdubs recorded at Record Plant, NY, 4 July 1971
Filmed at Tittenhurst Park, 21 July 1971.

ABOUT IMAGINE
John: ‘Imagine’ is a song conceived in my head without melody. The first verse came to me very quickly in the form of a childlike street chant ‘da da da da da dee dee da dee da ee a eeeh’. The piano intro I’ve had hanging around in my head for a few years – the chords and melody followed naturally from this. 

The middle eight was ‘conceived’ to finish off the song. I think it works as a song. Of course, there is always room for improvement – otherwise I wouldn’t make any more. The third verse came to me in an eight-seater plane. It’s a song for children.

Yoko: ‘Cloud Piece’: ‘Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in.’ This is not a piece of poetry. Poetry to me is nouns or adjectives. This is verbs. And you have to do them. These are all instructions and when you just do it, then you start to understand it.

John: ‘Imagine’ was inspired by Yoko’s Grapefruit. There’s a lot of pieces in it saying like ‘Imagine this’ or ‘Imagine that’. If you get a copy of Grapefruit and look through, you’ll see where I was influenced by her. ‘Imagine’ could never have been written without her. And I know she helped on a lot of the lyrics but I wasn’t man enough to let her have credit for it. So that song was actually written by John & Yoko, but I was still selfish enough and unaware enough to take her contribution without acknowledging it. The song itself expresses what I’d learned through being with Yoko and my own feelings on it. It should really have said ‘Lennon/Ono’ on that song, because she contributed a lot of that song.

Alan White (drummer): Every song we did on Imagine, John would make us read the lyrics and insist that we understood the meaning of the song before started playing it. That had quite an impact for me.

Klaus Voormann (bass): When we played ‘Imagine’ and heard the lyrics, the possibility that this was going to be such a big song was apparent. It definitely was. I even thought I didn’t want to play on it because it was so amazing with just John playing piano. It was so true and honest. That would have been enough. I hope you’ve got a version of just John playing it.

Phil McDonald (engineer): ‘Imagine’ was one of the easiest tracks to record, almost all live, in a few takes. We mixed the track at Tittenhurst and Phil Spector added strings on top of the stereo tape in the USA.

Yoko: John and I were both artists and we were living together, so we inspired each other. And the song ‘Imagine’ embodied what we believed together at the time. John and I met – he comes from the West and I come from the East – and still we are together. We have this oneness and ‘the whole world would eventually become one’ is the sense that we will all be café-au-lait colour and we will all be very happy together. All these instructions are for people for how to spend eternity, because we have lots of time.

John: If you can imagine a world of peace, if you can imagine a world with no denominations of religion – not without religion, whatever religion is – but without this divisive ‘My god is bigger than your god’ business.... Then, if you can imagine the possibility, then it can be true.

Yoko: ‘Imagine’ is a complete vision. A succinct bible of truth. It will start to unfold as you believe in it. The film? Well, it just happened naturally. I was well aware of the symbolism of everything – closing and then opening the shutters to let the light in. It’s rather personal, but I had a definite reason why I smiled at the end, in addition to loving being next to John.

Find out more: http://imaginejohnyoko.com
http://www.johnlennon.com

Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (w The Flux Fiddlers) (Ultimate Mix 2018) - 4K REMASTER

#USAForAfrica #WeAreTheWorld #Remastered #4K #2160p #UHD #Surround  USA For Africa with "We Are The World" (1985). Remastered and A.I. Upscaled in 4K @ 60 FPS with lossless (selfmade) 5.1 Surround Sound.

"We Are the World" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is the eighth-bestselling physical single of all time.

Soon after the UK-based group Band Aid released "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984, the musician and activist Harry Belafonte began to think about an American benefit single for African famine relief. He enlisted fundraiser Ken Kragen to help bring the vision to reality. The duo contacted several musicians, and enlisted Jackson and Richie to write the song; they completed the writing seven weeks after the release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and only one night before "We Are the World"'s first recording session, on January 21, 1985. The historic event brought together some of the era's best-known musicians.

The song was released on March 7, 1985, as the first single from the album by Columbia Records. A worldwide commercial success, it topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest-selling U.S. pop single in history. "We Are the World" received a Quadruple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, becoming the first single to be certified multi-platinum.

Awarded numerous honors—including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People's Choice Award—the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a VHS, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters, and shirts. The promotion and merchandise helped "We Are the World" raise more than $63 million ($156 million today) for humanitarian aid in Africa and the United States.

Inspired by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" project in the UK Harry Belafonte had the idea to organize the recording of a song including all the generation's best-known music artists. He planned to have the proceeds donated to a new organization called United Support of Artists for Africa (USA for Africa). The non-profit foundation would then provide food and relief aid to starving people in Africa, specifically Ethiopia, where a 1983–1985 famine raged. The famine ultimately killed about one million people. Belafonte's idea also planned to set aside money to help eliminate hunger in the United States of America. He contacted entertainment manager and fellow fundraiser Ken Kragen, who asked his clients Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers to participate. Kragen and the two musicians agreed and in turn, enlisted the cooperation of Stevie Wonder, to add more "name value" to their project. Quincy Jones was drafted to co-produce the song. Jones also telephoned Michael Jackson.

Jackson told Richie that he not only wanted to sing the song, but to help write it as well. They sought to write a song that would be easy to sing and memorable, yet still an anthem. For a week, the two spent every night working on lyrics and melodies in Jackson's bedroom. Jackson's older sister La Toya recounted the process in an interview with the U.S. celebrity news magazine People: "I'd go into the room while they were writing and it would be very quiet, which is odd, since Michael's usually very cheery when he works. It was very emotional for them." She also later said that Jackson wrote most of the lyrics "but he's never felt it necessary to say that".

USA for Africa musicians

Conductor
 • Quincy Jones

Soloists (in order of appearance)
 • Lionel Richie
 • Stevie Wonder
 • Paul Simon
 • Kenny Rogers
 • James Ingram
 • Tina Turner
 • Billy Joel
 • Michael Jackson
 • Diana Ross
 • Dionne Warwick
 • Willie Nelson
 • Al Jarreau
 • Bruce Springsteen
 • Kenny Loggins
 • Steve Perry
 • Daryl Hall
 • Huey Lewis
 • Cyndi Lauper
 • Kim Carnes
 • Bob Dylan
 • Ray Charles

Chorus (alphabetically)
 • Dan Aykroyd
 • Harry Belafonte
 • Lindsey Buckingham
 • Mario Cipollina
 • Johnny Colla
 • Sheila E.
 • Bob Geldof
 • Bill Gibson
 • Chris Hayes
 • Sean Hopper
 • Jackie Jackson
 • La Toya Jackson
 • Marlon Jackson
 • Randy Jackson
 • Tito Jackson
 • Waylon Jennings
 • Bette Midler
 • John Oates
 • Jeffrey Osborne
 • Anita Pointer
 • June Pointer
 • Ruth Pointer
 • Smokey Robinson

Instrument players
 • John Barnes – keyboards & arrangement
 • David Paich – synthesizers
 • Michael Boddicker – synthesizers, programming
 • Ian Underwood - synthesizers, programming
 • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
 • Louis Johnson – synth bass
 • Michael Omartian – keyboards
 • Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
 • John Robinson – drums 

(Wikipedia)

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