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Post by nutsberryfarm ⛑ on Aug 16, 2019 4:58:17 GMT
www.kusc.org/culture/staff-blog/driving-playlist/Going on a road trip anytime soon? Unsure what to listen to while the miles whiz past? If you Google “driving music,” the top hits are playlists of all sorts of rock/pop music geared towards car listening. Everything from Tom Cochran’s classic Life is a Highway to the Beach Boys’ I Get Around to Wilco’s Passenger Side. All good songs, but what about classical music? Below is a playlist of a couple of good hours of classical music suitable for blasting with the windows down. These are not “CarTunes,” in that it’s not music selected to lower the blood pressure and reduce stress while driving in traffic. Instead, this is uptempo, rhythmic music for the open road. While you’re listening, I encourage you to feel free to turn the volume up to 11. A bit about some of the pieces on the playlist: John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine – I had to include this piece, which Adams says is meant to evoke the feeling of going for a ride in a sports car with someone who likes to drive prestissimo. Elena Kats-Chernin: Fast Blue Village 2 – Born in Uzbekistan, Kats-Chernin now lives in Australia. She has written quite a few operas, experimental music, and even a piece for eight double basses and orchestra. Fast Blue Village 2 is derived from a longer work of hers which was so popular at its premiere in 2007, she was asked to create a bunch of different versions of the piece, including this one for string quartet. Dumisani Maraire: Mai Nozipo – This music from Zimbabwean composer and mbira virtuoso Dumisani Maraire is some of the most joyful you’ll ever hear. In addition to composition and performing, Maraire created the ethnomusicology program at the University of Zimbabwe. It’s impossible not to do a bit of car-dancing while listening to this piece. Christine Southworth: Honey Flyers 1 – In addition to composition, Christine Southworth is also a video artist and a beekeeper. This string quartet is inspired, in part, by her bees. I love the groove of this first movement. She even made some field recordings of those bees and incorporated them into the second and third movements. Isotaro Sugata: The Rhythm of Life (2nd mvt.) – I included this music by Japanese composer Isotaro Sugata because it made me smile. Why did it make me smile? In incorporates fragments of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring mixed with traditional Japanese melodies. How cool is that?! Speaking of Stravinsky, I’ve included his take on Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Dumbarton Oaks, alongside my favorite Brandenburg movment. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Chrysanthe Tan has actually written a piece called Road Tripping, which I suppose I should have included on this playlist, but I also love the impish marimbas in Playground Day, which have a nice (uncrowded) freeway vibe to them. Anna Meredith: Nautilus – I guess, technically, this is electronic music and not strictly “classical,” but Meredith writes both electronic and classical music and often in here electronic music, she samples snippets of classical music and/or orchestral instruments. She does so here and the effect is a powerful, visceral intensity that just can’t get enough of. Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen’s Return – We began with a short ride in a fast machine, we conclude with this journey home from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala.
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Post by rhs6358 on Aug 16, 2019 10:10:32 GMT
The second president of the United States was a musical artist? Man, he was like a rock star! If they only had rock back then.
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Post by pizzabagel on Aug 16, 2019 11:40:54 GMT
The second president of the United States was a musical artist? Man, he was like a rock star! If they only had rock back then. It's not that John Adams. It's the guy who sits in the bleachers at Cleveland Indians games. He's a drummer, you know.
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Post by DeltaHomicide on Aug 18, 2019 2:25:20 GMT
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Post by rhs6358 on Aug 18, 2019 13:59:57 GMT
The second president of the United States was a musical artist? Man, he was like a rock star! If they only had rock back then. It's not that John Adams. It's the guy who sits in the bleachers at Cleveland Indians games. He's a drummer, you know. A drummer? At an Indians game? Isn't that just a bit...racist? pizzabagel: How can it be racist if I like the Indians?
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Post by pizzabagel on Aug 18, 2019 15:57:53 GMT
It's not that John Adams. It's the guy who sits in the bleachers at Cleveland Indians games. He's a drummer, you know. A drummer? At an Indians game? Isn't that just a bit...racist? pizzabagel: How can it be racist if I like the Indians? rhs: Do you like the Indians? Not really. But they're playing the Yankees today, so they're my other favorite team.
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Post by rhs6358 on Aug 18, 2019 17:49:03 GMT
A drummer? At an Indians game? Isn't that just a bit...racist? pizzabagel: How can it be racist if I like the Indians? rhs: Do you like the Indians? Not really. But they're playing the Yankees today, so they're my other favorite team. C.C. Sabathia on the mound today. pizzabagel: Hey C.C.!! Woo-woo-woo-wooo!!!
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Post by pizzabagel on Aug 18, 2019 18:54:26 GMT
rhs: Do you like the Indians? Not really. But they're playing the Yankees today, so they're my other favorite team. C.C. Sabathia on the mound today. pizzabagel: Hey C.C.!! Woo-woo-woo-wooo!!! rhs: Did you have fun? Sabathia: Yeah, for a little while. One inning. rhs: Did something happen? PB: CC... took a bit of a tumble. He gave up four runs in the second, capped off by a three-run dinger by Mike Freeman. He was out after the third, having thrown 67 pitches.
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Post by rhs6358 on Aug 18, 2019 22:03:52 GMT
C.C. Sabathia on the mound today. pizzabagel: Hey C.C.!! Woo-woo-woo-wooo!!! rhs: Did you have fun? Sabathia: Yeah, for a little while. One inning. rhs: Did something happen? PB: CC... took a bit of a tumble. He gave up four runs in the second, capped off by a three-run dinger by Mike Freeman. He was out after the third, having thrown 67 pitches. C.C. picked up 5 more strikeouts, though. 12 more and he passes John Smoltz. John Smoltz, pizzabagel!
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Post by Karma_Kramer on May 7, 2023 1:13:33 GMT
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Post by pizzabagel on May 7, 2023 12:42:52 GMT
Young Maestro, before he became the master face contortionist.
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Post by rhs6358 on May 7, 2023 16:25:46 GMT
Says in the comments that this is from 1948. Was that the current hairstyle then?
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Post by Karma_Kramer on May 7, 2023 18:26:57 GMT
Says in the comments that this is from 1948. Was that the current hairstyle then? evidently
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Post by rhs6358 on May 7, 2023 19:13:06 GMT
Says in the comments that this is from 1948. Was that the current hairstyle then? evidently nuts: snazzy!
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Post by Karma_Kramer on May 7, 2023 19:24:10 GMT
I don't think any members of this board were alive in 1948.
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Post by rhs6358 on May 7, 2023 19:34:43 GMT
I don't think any members of this board were alive in 1948. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from some of them fuggedaboudit: Shut up, you dickhead! I'm not that old!
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Post by Karma_Kramer on May 7, 2023 20:19:31 GMT
I don't think any members of this board were alive in 1948. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from some of them fuggedaboudit: Shut up, you dickhead! I'm not that old! For all we know, Nuts could be a senile 90 year old. That would explain his 1-word-rants on this board.
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Post by rhs6358 on May 7, 2023 20:30:54 GMT
Maybe that's why we haven't heard from some of them fuggedaboudit: Shut up, you dickhead! I'm not that old! For all we know, Nuts could be a senile 90 year old. That would explain his 1-word-rants on this board. nuts is a man of mystery. All we know about him is that he lives in the Tulsa area, enjoys the Orioles, golf and food (especially calzones), is very fond of John Tesh and listens to classical music. That or he's full of garbage and actually lives in Teaneck, NJ, is a Dallas Cowboys fan, eats hot dogs 7 days a week, fantasizes about Rosemary Clooney naked and is very fond of John Tesh.
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Post by Karma_Kramer on May 8, 2023 0:14:03 GMT
Young Maestro, before he became the master face contortionist. Baby Maestro
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Post by pizzabagel on May 8, 2023 0:59:10 GMT
Young Maestro, before he became the master face contortionist. Baby Maestro He must have been the Tesh of his day.
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Post by rhs6358 on May 14, 2023 14:23:17 GMT
He must have been the Tesh of his day. nuts: he gay when young?
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