This song hits home, especially the last line
Am *VERY* familiar with both the tale and the music. I wore out my mother's recording of it when I was a teenager. Every once in a while, you'll see a Belly Dancer dance to one portion or another of Scheherazade, sometimes with a middle eastern beat superimposed on top of it.Them plus I'm a big Rimsky-Korsakov fan too, especially his Scheherazade piece based on the Arabian Tales of 1001 Nights.
There's a great story behind Scheherazade who stopped a Persian king from killing all the beautiful Persian princesses he killed nightly after marrying them. Revenge for his first bride who was unfaithful. She purposely married him to stop his killings. She then told him amazing tales every night after being married that were just long enough so they couldn't be told in a single night. But so stories good the king let her live so he could hear ending the next night. To be followed by another, and another. Read about her, it's a great story. Truly. Then listen to the Scheherazade piece by Rimsky-Korsakov, a former late 1800's Russian naval officer.
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Amazing, I listen to various recordings of it at least once a week and it never gets old.Am *VERY* familiar with both the tale and the music. I wore out my mother's recording of it when I was a teenager. Every once in a while, you'll see a Belly Dancer dance to one portion or another of Scheherazade, sometimes with a middle eastern beat superimposed on top of it.
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is another fave, so is Dvorak's "New World Symphony". I played French Horn for 25 years...
I knew a guy who could play Flight of the Bumble Bee on the tuba!Amazing, I listen to various recordings of it at least once a week and it never gets old.
One more piece that knocks me out is Rimsky-Korsakov's version of Night on Bald Mountain. It was written around the tale of witches who gather annually (Witches Sabbath) on barren rocky Bald Mountain in Russia to entice the devil himself to appear. Spooky stuff that was done up well in Walt Disney's Fantasia animated film too. There are a lot of fascinating stories and tales behind much of the classical music many of us love, many are surprising when discovered. Flight of the Bumble Bee came from 1001 Arabian Tales too, think back to Sinbad The Sailor where that came from... which was even done in old Popeye cartoons lol.
Ok guys you can slap me around on this but this subject is one that has had me in its grips longer than Jeeps have.
@Jerry Bransford @Zorba I would have never thought you two would enjoy the same music...Jerry do you play finger cymbals?Amazing, I listen to various recordings of it at least once a week and it never gets old.
One more piece that knocks me out is Rimsky-Korsakov's version of Night on Bald Mountain. It was written around the tale of witches who gather annually (Witches Sabbath) on barren rocky Bald Mountain in Russia to entice the devil himself to appear. Spooky stuff that was done up well in Walt Disney's Fantasia animated film too. There are a lot of fascinating stories and tales behind much of the classical music many of us love, many are surprising when discovered. Flight of the Bumble Bee came from 1001 Arabian Tales too, think back to Sinbad The Sailor where that came from... which was even done in old Popeye cartoons lol.
Ok guys you can slap me around on this but this subject is one that has had me in its grips longer than Jeeps have.
Some like from Wagner but not much opera otherwise. I'd have to say I don't listen purposely to opera.I knew a guy who could play Flight of the Bumble Bee on the tuba!
You into Opera at all?
I'm not a huge opera fan either - but if I'm in the right mood, the voices are beautiful. Especially if its sung in English - which is rare. Wagner huh? You don't go light, do you? Der Ring des Nibelungen!Some like from Wagner but not much opera otherwise. I'd have to say I don't listen purposely to opera.
It's interesting how some songs can take years, and tears, to write. The movie "I can Only Imagine" is truly an incredible story about the writing of a remarkable song. If you're human, you can't help but feel something when you watch it and then listen to the song.One song and one song only speaks to me. I get a lump in my throat and fight tears every time I hear it.
Having a Father from West Va., and having shoveled my share of coal as a youth, I have a soft spot for anything Bluegrass related. Especially, when Alison Krauss is singing!Then there's the unexpected:
NOT my usual cuppa - but this one just appeals to me. Probably having a grandfather who was there during the coal wars of winter '30/'31. My late father was a very small child and had dim memories of the goin's on back then.
Especially, when Alison Krauss is singing!
Just saw him Friday night. Great concertMan, this is picking scabs.
To me ex-wife.
How many times did he get angry at the audience lmaoJust saw him Friday night. Great concert
How many times did he get angry at the audience lmao
Get on youtube and search Aaron lewis walks off stage or Aaron lewis mad at audience..there literally hours of entertainment.Sounds like a story there. I haven’t seen him live know a few have, never said anything about him being mad at the audience.