tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post6256902609866532727..comments2024-03-23T12:42:50.151-04:00Comments on MMmusing: Found MusicMICHAEL MONROEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392848296427560715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-219049435857213642007-04-23T19:06:00.000-04:002007-04-23T19:06:00.000-04:00Rob, that comment would be more appropriate for th...Rob, that comment would be more appropriate for the "MM using" site, not "MM musing." (Sorry, I've been looking for a good opportunity to break that out. This seemed to be the time.)MICHAEL MONROEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392848296427560715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-81071593983663941732007-04-23T18:41:00.000-04:002007-04-23T18:41:00.000-04:00Back when I was bad (well, worse) I crashed a part...Back when I was bad (well, worse) I crashed a party and got pulled apart between a hippie folk singer and a black blues dude who were jamming on guitar. There was wacky tobacco involved but the music alone would have done it. It was intensely beautiful. It was like my left brain and right brain separated and stood arms length away from each other. I've never felt anything else like it.Rob Steelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232124026732892112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-58658257382924954312007-04-21T20:33:00.000-04:002007-04-21T20:33:00.000-04:00Yes, I agree that the Handel recorder is the most ...Yes, I agree that the Handel recorder is the most dominant element - that recording is a bit louder in the mix, and I think you're right that it's also recorded in a more up-front way. Still, probably because I don't know that piece well, I have trouble centering what the recorder is doing tonally. When I zero in on the Mozart, which I know well, I can pretty easily make sense of it.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps I'll post the real Mozart soon, although its lyricism isn't best suited to a 1/4-violin and an early-stages vibrato. She does play a mean Jenkinson "Elves' Dance," which she just started as a fun piece, although it doesn't have quite the passion of the Madeline reading.MICHAEL MONROEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392848296427560715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-29156401991614023702007-04-21T19:39:00.000-04:002007-04-21T19:39:00.000-04:00I think the Handel wins. Maybe its because of the...I think the Handel wins. Maybe its because of the fact that its a commercially-mixed recording, but the Handel is dominant and the Mozart is essentially inaudible as a cohesive horizontal musical unit. <BR/><BR/>It is fun to try to listen to two pieces at once though. It stresses the mind in interesting ways. I would have liked to hear the Mozart by itself. I'm a great fan of your daughter's on-line reading of "Madeline," and would be interested in how she does with Mozart, now that she is a few years older.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.com