Sun Valley Serenade is the first of the only two movies featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra (the other is 1942's Orchestra Wives). Besides "Chattanooga Choo Choo", other Glenn Miller tunes in the film are "Moonlight Serenade", "It Happened in Sun Valley", "I Know Why (and So Do You)", and "In the Mood".
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Chicago the Musical Australia (2019) - All That Jazz
Performed by Alinta Chidzey (in the role of Velma Kelly) and the Chicago the Musical ensemble cast. Recorded at the show's Brisbane Media Call on 7 November 2019 at QPAC, ahead of the show's opening night. For ticket information, visit www.chicagothemusical.com.au. Chicago the Musical is being toured in Australia by The Gordon Frost Organisation and Jones Theatrical Group.
French singer and 60s pop icon Françoise Hardy dies aged 80
(FILES) French singer Francoise Hardy poses at her home in Calvi on August 12, 1977. French singer Francoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced on June 11, 2024 on his social networks. Singer, actress and songwriter, mainly known for her melancholic sentimental ballads, Françoise Hardy made her musical debut in the early 1960s and found immediate success with the song "Tous les garçons et les filles". In addition to her native French, she also sang in English, Italian and German. Her career spanned more than fifty years and almost 30 studio albums. One of the best-selling singers in French history, she is regarded as an iconic and influential figure in both French pop and fashion. (Photo by AFP)
BY Clare BYRNE via AFP
June 12, 2024
French singer Francoise Hardy, whose crystalline voice and melancholy lyrics shot her to international stardom in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80, according to her son
Thomas Dutronc, Hardy’s son with another French music star, Jacques Dutronc, announced her death on Tuesday.
“Mom is gone,” he wrote on Instagram on Tuesday alongside a baby picture of himself with his mother.
Hardy became a pop icon and fashion muse of the 1960s and beyond. Mick Jagger described her as his “ideal woman”, Bob Dylan wrote a poem for her, and women around the world imitated her androgynous style and embraced her melancholic melodies.
But Hardy was a reluctant superstar, who dreamed of domestic bliss even as she chalked up chart hits.
It all began in 1962 with the catchy debut single “Tous les garcons et les filles” (All the girls and boys), in which the shy singer-songwriter lamented her loveless status.
“All the boys and girls my age walk hand in hand in the streets two by two… but not me, I walk alone through the streets, my heart aching,” she sang wistfully.
The single sold a million copies, making Hardy an instant star of the “Ye-Ye” (after the Beatles “yeah, yeah, yeah”) generation of post-war French pop singers.
Soon a parallel career as a cover girl beckoned, with the singer’s thick fringe, sculpted cheekbones and bohemian style coming to define a sort of effortless French chic.
She was an early adopter of the mini-skirt and became a model for fashion designers including Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne.
More hits followed, from the ballad “Mon Amie La Rose” to “Comment te dire adieu”, about the pain of separation from a man with a “heart of pyrex”, with lyrics provided by the bad-boy of French pop, Serge Gainsbourg.
Bob Dylan was among those bowled over by the singer’s languid vocals.
On the cover of his “Another Side” album in 1964, he wrote a poem starting: “For Françoise Hardy/At the Seine’s edge/A giant shadow/Of Notre-Dame”.
But Hardy had eyes only for fellow “Ye-Ye” star, the suave and sardonic Dutronc.
The pair married and had a son Thomas, who also became a musician. But Dutronc, an inveterate womanizer, was an elusive figure, who jealously guarded his independence.
“From the moment we met, Jacques created distance between us,” Hardy told Liberation newspaper in an interview.
The pair, who separated in the late 1980s, were a study in contrasts.
Dutronc, whose hits included “Il est cinq heures, Paris s’eveille” and “J’aime les filles” was a natural performer, but Hardy, who was studying German at university when she shot to fame, appeared ill at ease on stage.
“Singing is not something that comes easily to me,” Hardy, who thought of herself as a melody-maker first and foremost, told the French-German Arte channel in a documentary.
Dutronc penned one of her hits, “Le Temps de l’Amour” (1962), which director Wes Anderson revived for a new generation in his 2012 movie “Moonrise Kingdom”.
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Hardy was born in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944 to a single mother, who was separated from the father of her two daughters.
Her grandmother told her she was “hideous” and would never find a match.
It was only when, years later, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger declared that he had a crush on her that she realised that she was not the “young, naive unattractive girl” she had been led to believe.
Before Dutronc, she was in a relationship with photographer Jean-Marie Perier.
In 2004, she was diagnosed with lymphoma, and in 2019 revealed she had throat cancer and had received 45 rounds of radiotherapy.
In a radio interview in 2021, Hardy, who had lost hearing in one ear, backed a bill on euthanasia: “At a certain point, when there is far too much pain and no hope, you have to end the suffering,” she said.
Hardy was the only French artist to appear in a 2023 ranking of the 200 greatest singers of all time published by Rolling Stone magazine.
At the time, the publication said her cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” might be “the most evocative ever recorded, his included”.
In addition to her native French, Hardy also sang in English, Italian and German. Her career spanned more than 50 years and almost 30 studio albums.
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Monday, June 10, 2024
Diana Krall - Walk On By (Live)
Astor Piazzolla, a life in a tango
A new episode of the Food of Love, talks around music by Roberto Nigro and Cameristi della Scala. Celebrating Astor Piazzolla and his "Tango Nuevo"
Astor Piazzolla - Libertango (1977)
Arvo Pärt: My Heart's in the Highlands
It is highly advisable to use headphones or good acoustic system while watching
"My Heart's in the Highlands", 2000
Composer: Arvo Pärt
David James (countertenor), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Author of text: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Anne Akiko Meyers & Akira Eguchi: Arvo Pärt 'Fratres' Encore Presentation
Recorded live at the Phillips Collection on April 23, 2017. Meyers performs Arvo Pärt's masterpiece, Fratres with pianist, Akira Eguchi.
Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the most celebrated violinists embraced around the world today. Possessing a rare ability to connect with audiences from the concert stage, online, in television, and radio broadcasts, Meyers has actively maintained an extensive touring schedule for over 30 years, and regularly performs in recital and as guest soloist with many of the world’s top orchestras. She is a best-selling recording artist who has released over 40 albums and was the top-selling traditional classical instrumental soloist on Billboard’s charts in 2014.
Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within (Official HD Video)
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Christina Perri - A Thousand Years [Official Music Video]
the official music video of “a thousand years”
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#ChristinaPerri #AThousandYearsThe Best of Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
For many years Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.
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Tracklist:
Quadros de uma exposição
1. Promenade
2. Gnomo
3. Promenade
4. O Velho Castelho
5. Promenade
6. Tulherias
7. Bydlo
8. Promenade
9. Balé dos Pintinhos n as Cascas de Ovos
10. Samuel Goldenberg e Schumyle
11. O Mercado Limoges
12. Catacumbas
13. Cum Mortius in Lingu a Morta
14. A Cabana Sobre Patas de Galinha, "Baba Yaga"
15. O Grande Portal de Kiev
16. Uma Noite no Monte Calvo
17. Síntese Sinfônica Sobre Boris Godunov
Christina Aguilera - Reflection (2020) (From "Mulan")
To Love You More - Joslin - Celine Dion Cover
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