Madonna - La Isla Bonita (Official Video)

You're watching the official music video for "La Isla Bonita" from Madonna's album 'True Blue' released on Sire Records in 1986. Buy/Stream the 'True Blue' album here: https://apple.co/3jNvGXO Listen to Madonna’s latest release here: https://Madonna.lnk.to/latest Subscribe to the Madonna Channel! https://Madonna.lnk.to/YouTubeID​ Check out the Official Madonna YouTube Playlists… The Complete Madonna Videography https://Madonna.lnk.to/Videography​ Live Performances https://Madonna.lnk.to/LiveYT​ MDNA Skin https://Madonna.lnk.to/MDNAskinYT​ Help Us Give Back… Raising Malawi http://www.raisingmalawi.org/​ The Ray of Light Foundation http://www.rayoflight.org/​ Stay in touch with Madonna… http://madonna.com​   / madonna​     / madonna​     / madonna​   http://www.madonna.com/newsletter​ The Madonna Channel is the official YouTube home for Madonna. As the best-selling female recording artist of all time, Madonna continues to leave an indelible mark on the world through her art, music, activism and humanitarian leadership. Madonna consistently pushes boundaries, spurs conversations and unites us all through her revolutionary work. Subscribe for the latest videos, music, news and updates. Enjoy Madonna’s groundbreaking music videos, live performances, humorous videos and more. Lyrics: ¿Cómo puede ser verdad? [English translation: "How could it be true?"] Last night I dreamt of San Pedro Just like I'd never gone, I knew the song A young girl with eyes like the desert It all seems like yesterday, not far away Tropical the island breeze All of nature wild and free This is where I long to be La isla bonita ["The beautiful island"] And when the samba played The sun would set so high Ring through my ears and sting my eyes Your Spanish lullaby I fell in love with San Pedro Warm wind carried on the sea, he called to me Te dijo te amo ["He told you, 'I love you.'"] I prayed that the days would last They went so fast Tropical the island breeze All of nature wild and free This is where I long to be La isla bonita And when the samba played The sun would set so high Ring through my ears and sting my eyes Your Spanish lullaby I want to be where the sun warms the sky When it's time for siesta you can watch them go by Beautiful faces, no cares in this world Where a girl loves a boy, and a boy loves a girl Last night I dreamt of San Pedro It all seems like yesterday, not far away Tropical the island breeze All of nature wild and free This is where I long to be La isla bonita And when the samba played The sun would set so high Ring through my ears and sting my eyes Your Spanish lullaby Tropical the island breeze All of nature wild and free This is where I long to be La isla bonita And when the samba played The sun would set so high Ring through my ears and sting my eyes Your Spanish lullaby Te dijo te amo El dijo que te ama ["He said he loves you"] La isla bonita Your Spanish lullaby

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Official Video)

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Bert Kaempfert - Medley 1978

Bert Kaempfert - Medley 1978 1. Afrikaan Beat 0:05 - 01:50 2. A Swingin' Safari 01:50 - 03:20 3. Red Roses For A Blue Lady 03:20 - 04:25 4. Bye Bye Blues 04:25 - 06:40 5. That Happy Feeling 06:50 - 09:05 6. Sweet Caroline 09:25 - 11:35 7. Strangers in the Night 11:50 - 13:55

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Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix)

306,209,409 views Oct 11, 2019 #losdelrio #macarena #90hits

Vídeo original de Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix). Considerada como una de las canciones españolas más emblemáticas de los años 90, alcanzó el #1 de las listas de canciones de países como Estados Unidos, Alemania, Francia, Italia, Países Bajos,... Original video of La Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix) One of the greatest hits of the 90s hitting #1 worldwide (USA, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands...). Lyrics Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) - Los Del Rio I am not trying to seduce you When I dance they call me Macarena and the boys they say que estoy buena they all want me they can't have me so they all come and dance beside me Move with me Chant with me and if your good I'll take you home with me 1 - Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena But don't worry about my boyfriend He's a boy who's name is Vitorino I don't want him couldn't stand him He was no good so I ... Now come on, what was I supposed to do? He was out of town and his two friends were sooo fine Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena I am not trying to seduce you Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Come and find me, my name is Macarena I’m always at the party con las chicas que están buenas come join me, dance with me and you fellows chant along with me. Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena Hey Macarena

AFTER THE LOVE HAS GONE - Earth, Wind and Fire Lyrics

After the love has gone, what used to be right, is wrong...

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The Magical World of Musicals | The Lion King | The Greatest Showman

3,916 views Oct 12, 2024 #TheMaestro #TheEuropeanPopOrchestra #Musicals

00:00 - 04:07 I Belong To Me (Elisabeth) 04:08 - 07:34 I Dreamed a Dream (Les Misérables) 07:35 - 11:37 Circle Of Life (The Lion King) 11:38 - 15:49 Memory (Musical Cats) 15:50 - The Greatest Show (The Greatest Showman) #TheMaestro #TheEuropeanPopOrchestra #Musicals

11 October: Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Was Premiered

by Georg Predota

Frédéric Chopin, 1873

On 22 September 1830, Frédéric Chopin invited all of musical Warsaw to his home for a dress rehearsal of his E-minor Concerto. The rehearsal was enormously successful and a press review announced, “I hasten to bring a piece of good news to all friends of music and of native talent: Frédéric Chopin has completed his second grand piano Concerto. It is a work of genius, original, gracefully conceived with an abundance of imaginative ideas and perfect orchestration. The performance was masterfully executed… and we must add that Mr. Chopin will rob the Warsaw public of great pleasure if he departs without having publically produced this second Concerto.” Glowing accolades none withstanding, let us clear up some possible confusion. The referenced E-minor Concerto was the first of Chopin’s two piano concertos to be published, and it was subsequently given the opus number 11. It was composed immediately after the premiere of the F-minor concerto, which took place on 17 March 1830. This composition was published as his Piano Concerto No. 2 and given the opus number 21. As such, the E-minor concerto was composed and performed second but published first. The public premiere performance took place on 11 October 1830 at the Teatr Narodowy (National Theatre) in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as the soloist.

Chopin playing piano © reddit

Chopin writes about his performance, “I was not the slightest bit nervous and I played as I play when I am alone. It went well. The hall was full. Goerner’s Symphony came first. Then My highness played the first allegro of the E minor Concerto, which I reeled off on a Streicher piano. The bravos were deafening… It seems to me that I have never been so much at ease when playing with an orchestra. The audience enjoyed my piano playing.” Rising political tensions prevented extended press reviews, and the local newspaper merely describes it as “one of the most sublime of all musical works,” but hardly the ecstatic tribute paid to the F-minor concerto earlier that year. Chopin performed the “Rondo” of the E-minor in Breslau 14 days later, and wrote to his family that the Germans had declared, “How light his touch as a pianist was.” However, Chopin complained, “that there was not a word written about the composition itself.” One local critic, however, “praised the novelty of the form, saying that he had never yet heard anything quite like it. “Perhaps” Chopin opined, “he understood better than any of them.” And a Munich performance in 1831 prompted the reviewer to write, “A lovely delicacy along with a beautiful and individualistic interpretation of the themes was characteristic of his cultivated style. On the whole, the work was brilliant and well written but without any particular originality or depth except for the main theme and middle second of the Rondo, which display a unique charm in their peculiar combination of melancholy and light-hearted passages.”

François-Joseph Fétis

Once the E-minor concerto had made its way to Paris, François-Joseph Fétis, one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century writes, “M. Chopin performed a concerto that caused as much astonishment as pleasure because of the novelty of its melodic ideas as well as its figuration, modulations, and form in general. His melodies are soulful, his keyboard writing imaginative, and originality prevails throughout. But mixed in with the qualities I have just identified are such weaknesses as over-rich modulations and a disordered succession of phrases, so that sometimes one had the impression of listening to an improvisation rather than composed music.” These early reviews decidedly colored the reception of the E-minor Concerto in the early twentieth century.

Frédéric Kalkbrenner, 1829

James Huneker dismissed it claiming “not Chopin at his very best,” and specifically writing on the E-minor he observed that “the first movement is too long, too much in one set of keys, and the working out section too much in the nature of a technical study.” And Donald Francis Tovey writes in the 1930’s that “the first movement of the E minor is built on a suicidal plan,” suggesting that it lacked “an essential element of harmonic contract and was therefore deficient from a structural point of view.” Critics initially might also have been guided by the dedication of the E-minor concerto to Frédéric Kalkbrenner, who was after all in the running to become Chopin’s teacher in Paris. However, today we understand that Chopin used virtuosity of differentiated intensity, inviting fluid interpretation and expression from his most technical writing. As has been observed, the E-minor concerto derives its “energy and momentum not from the contract of tonal centers, but from the contrast of lyric and virtuosic sections in the piano writing.”

What YOUR favorite composer says about you!

176,791 views Jan 14, 2024 #classicalmusic

Explore the fascinating link between your personality and musical tastes in this video: "What YOUR Favorite Composer Says About You!" We delve into the connections between classical music and personality types, decoding the unique traits associated with popular composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin. Feel free to share your go-to composers in the comments. #classicalmusic _______________________________________ ✍ All explanations and names of the used pieces: https://pastebin.com/1EeMug9M _______________________________________ 🎶 Names of the pieces: Bach - Suite No. 3: II. Air Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 [4. mvmt] Mozart - Symphony No. 35, “Haffner” [1. mvmt] Brahms - Symphony No. 1 [1. mvmt] Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 [4. mvmt] Händel - Music For the Royal Fireworks Wagner - Die Walküre, Akt III: Walkürenritt Chopin - Nocturne No. 2 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: II. The Death Of Aase Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat Major Schubert - Schubert Serenade Mahler - Symphony No. 5 [1. mvmt] Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 [1. mvmnt] Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 Stravinsky - The Firebird - Finale Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 [2. mvmt] Haydn - “Kaiserquartett,” No. 3 in C Major [2. mvmt] Mendelssohn - Songs without Words, Op.19b, No. 6 Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 5 [1. mvmt] Schoenberg - Suite for Piano op. 25: VI. Gigue Dvorak - Serenade for Strings in E Major [2. mvmt] Debussy - Clair De Lune Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 [1. mvmt] Bartók - Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta [4. mvmt] Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene II: Dance of the Knights Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, No. 1, Andante Holst - The Planets No. 4: “Jupiter" Barber - Adagio for Strings Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique Saint-Saëns - Les Carnaval des Animaux - 7. Aquarium Lalo - Cello Concerto in D Minor: 1. Prélude Elgar - Enigma Variations, Theme Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 4 in F Minor "L'inverno": 1. Allegro non molto J. Strauss II - An der schönen blauen Donau Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1: “Toreador March” Verdi - Dies Irae R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Prelude Smetana - The Moldau (From “Má Vlast”) Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 [4. mvmt] Hindemith - Mathis der Maler Symphony: 1. Engelkonzert Scriabin - 24 Préludes, op. 11: No. 14 in E-Flat Minor Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1 Respighi - 6 Pezzi, No. 5 Studio Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee Paganini - La Campanella Puccini - La bohème, Act II: “Musetta's Waltz” Borodin - Prince Igor, Polovetsian Dances: Moderato alla breve

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5 & 7) [PULSE Restored ...

10,941,033 views Premiered Jan 4, 2020 #PinkFloydFridays #ShineOnYouCrazyDiamond #PinkFloyd

Filmed live on 20 October 1994 at Earls Court, London, UK. Restored & re-edited in 2019 from the original tape masters. Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals 2018 Remix – Dolby Atmos’ on Blu-ray out now: https://PinkFloyd.lnk.to/AnimalsBluRay Collector’s Edition of The Dark Side Of The Moon on crystal clear vinyl out now: https://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/TDSOTMUVVinyl *ABOUT P.U.L.S.E. RESTORED & RE-EDITED* The P.U.L.S.E. concert film (helmed by esteemed director David Mallet) will be available as 2x Blu-ray and 2x DVD deluxe box sets, with the video footage having been expertly re-edited by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis from the original tape masters especially for The Later Years release in 2019. The cover design, originally created by Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon for the 2006 DVD release, has also been updated with photography by Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis and Rupert Truman/StormStudios. The packaging artwork is designed by Peter Curzon from StormStudios, under the direction of Aubrey Powell/Hignosis. This release also sees the reintroduction of the iconic pulsating light as per the original 1995 CD release, this time operated by 2 replaceable AA batteries. The deluxe packages include music videos, concert screen films, documentaries, Pulse Tour rehearsal footage & more, alongside a 60-page booklet. P.U.L.S.E., originally released as an album in 1995, was recorded on the European leg of the Division Bell tour and the DVD and Blu-Ray packages include the whole live performance of ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ - the only full live filmed recording of this seminal album. The concert, filmed on 20 October 1994 at Earls Court in London, saw Pink Floyd play some of their classic tracks as well as highlights from the recently released album ‘The Division Bell’. Standout tracks include ‘High Hopes’, ‘Keep Talking’, ‘Sorrow’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’.

Last Words and Cause of Death of Famous Composers

Tracklist: 0:00 Viderunt Omnes 0:54 King Henry VIII: Pastime With Good Company 2:02 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide Overture 3:36 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso Disclaimer: This list may not contain all of the composers. The information may also be misleading or not recorded at all, therefore with some of the causes of death being regarded as "unknown".

A letter from Prague: the city in timeless harmony

Hattie Butterworth

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Exploring the city’s cultural identity through architecture, history, and the legacy of Czech music

Prague is a city that architecturally is vaguely reminiscent of many places. I visited Prague for the first time earlier this summer, and found myself with memories of Italy, Germany and Scandinavia in my mind as I walked the cobbled streets. Then it has its political markers – the Lennon Wall with its ever-changing graffiti, marking global causes and the Memorial to the Victims of Communism active in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989.

Its music – the distinctive Bohemian legacy of Dvořák, Suk, Smetana and others – perhaps gives the city an extra dimension to its colour. ‘My music is rhythmic because I am Czech,’ Bohuslav Martinů once said. ‘The national music of the Czechs is rhythm – strong and agile rhythm.’

But it was Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), who was perhaps the first composer to revive the Czech musical language. A pioneer in his own right, he is now known in the country as the ‘father of Czech music’. This shift to writing in Czech came as later in life, he further embedded himself in Czech culture by learning to speak the language and the Czech nationalist movement caught wind. His own first language, as was usual among the middle classes in the Habsburg empire, was German.

Strong and lyrical, the Czech language has West-Slavic origins and is distinctly different to the German language of Smetana’s upbringing. Listening to the discussions of Czech audiences felt like a further journey into the music of the country. As I settled down in the National Theater for a production of Smetana’s late opera The Secret, the pastel and gold colours of the building glimmered and the strong, lyrical language reduced to whispers.

The interior of the National Theatre, Prague | Photo: National Theatre Prague

The Czech National Opera has commitment to celebrating its composer, Smetana, in his 200th anniversary year as part of the ‘Year of Czech Music’. The Secret lives alongside eight other Czech operas that Smetana wrote whilst principal conductor of Prague’s Provisional Theatre, the temporary home for Czech drama and opera before the National Theatre was built. Libuše (The Kiss) has also seen a new production this year, as well as revivals of The Bartered Bride and Dalibor.

Smetana’s operas blend the folk songs of his homeland with his personal style and have a poetic musical language. So too does his orchestral music, the most famous of which, his Má vlast was composed towards the end of his life and in the symphonic poem style pioneered by his friend Franz Liszt. Just as he began writing the work in 1874, Liszt lost the hearing in his left ear and a month later had also lost hearing in his right. He completed the work profoundly deaf.

By the end of 1874, Smetana resigned from his position as a conductor of the Provisional Theatre, because he couldn't hear well enough to keep doing his job. He wrote in his diary at the time: ‘If my disease is incurable, then I should prefer to be liberated from this life.’ He also suffered severely from tinnitus and wrote the ‘high E’ pitch he was hearing in the last movement of Bedřich Smetana's String Quartet No. 1, ‘From My Own Life’. In the middle of the finale, the quartet breaks off, followed by this mysterious high note. I wonder if this was a form of healing for Smetana, as embedding a tinnitus pitch into music has been known to significantly reduce the volume of the pitch. Was Smetana writing to sooth, rather than protest?

Many have argued about what caused the composer’s deafness and later his mental illness, leading for his body to be exhumed twice. In 1987 antibodies were found that pointed to syphilis, though the diagnosis still isn’t conclusive.

The Smetana Museum original manuscript of Smetana's opera The Kiss | Photo: Hattie Butterworth

Learning of Smetana’s connections and tragedies came from the beautifully-curated Smetana museum, right on the Vltava river in a neo-renaissance building. It’s an intimate and moving experience, holding original letters and memorabilia from Smetana’s life. So too does the museum at Jabkenice, where a deaf Smetana composed many of his later works.

I often wonder about composers: does knowing about their lives matter or impact the way we hear the music? Perhaps the ins and outs of Smetana’s private life aren’t as important to the music as the knowledge is of his cultural journey throughout his life. When we listen to Smetana we are hearing a shift into a cultural identity and a start to the legacy we now know of the country’s music. It’s history through staves, scores and melodies.

The Czech Philharmonic closing the Prague Spring Festival 2024 | Photo: Hattie Butterworth

Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year 2024 was voted as being the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. On my trip in June I saw the orchestra at the Rudolfinum concert hall in an all-Czech programme of music to close the annual Prague Spring Festival. From Smetana and Dvořák to the European premiere of Miroslav Srnka's Superorganisms, it was a unique opportunity to understand a full spectrum of Czech music and witness its effect on me. Perhaps the constant thread is the folk music of the country – still influencing Czech composers to this day and giving an intergenerational connection and community to the audiences.

In a recorded speech to receive the award, the orchestra’s chief conductor Semyon Bychkov said: ‘this orchestra lived by navigating through the highs and the lows, always attached to the national musical tradition, keen to preserve its unique sound and expression.’ Prague is engulfed with music. Walk around with your headphones in – Dvorak’s symphonies hold new resonance, bringing this iconic river and architecture to life through sound and history.

2024 is the Year of Czech Music. Find out more at visitczechia.com