Great Musical Clips

Music is said to be the speech of angels: in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

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"I Am Woman"
from
Jonathan & Darlene's
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Street musician performing
"Hallelujah" on the glass harmonica

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The Anne Thomas
Jazz Quartet

"I'm Beginning to See the Light"

"My Romance"

"Beautiful  Love"

"You Don't Know What Love Is"

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"Before Thy Cross"
sung by Moscow Cathedral Choir
with basso profundo solo.

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"Danny Boy"
sung by The Vocal Majority

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"I'm Getting Sentimental
over You"
played by Kenny Barron

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click "Cherokee"
from the CD album
"Hamp & Getz"

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Click here to play. In the fall of 1957 Ella Fitzgerald
performed in Los Angeles. There
was a real rapport with the audience,
and Ella was at her best. This excerpt
from "Stompin' at the Savoy" shows
off her renown scat singing, stretching
even her creative style. At one point she
asks, "Where do we go from here?"

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Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
by Heitor Villa-Lobos

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"Evenstar" from 
The Lord of the Rings - 
The Two Towers
 
by Howard Shore

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Stravinsky's biggest mistake
(From "Three Movements of Petrouchka")

 

 

"Lullaby of Christmas"
read by Gregory Peck
(19 minutes)

 

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"Clair de lune" by Debussy
performed by Alpin Hong

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"I'm Getting Sentimental
over You"
Tommy Dorsey

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"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
Pat Joyce

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"Who Hid the Halibut
on the Poop Deck?"
Yorgi Yorgesson

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click to play "The Auctioneer"
by Leroy VanDyke and Buddy Black
sung by Ralph Eichler.

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Compare these two pieces:

"Humming Chorus" from Madama Butterfly

"Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables

Composition based on prime numbers

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The Boston Common
Barbershop Quartet

One of the top three quartets
ever! Here they sing "Little Girl"
composed by Mac Huff and
Norman Starks.

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Ajax commerial
composed by
Joe Hines in
1948 for
Colgate-Palmolive

 

Click here to play. Sarah Chang, age 12, plays 
the cadenza from Paganini's 
violin concerto no.1.

Interview

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Ron McCroby whistles. Click to play Jazz whistler Ron McCroby
recorded only two albums in
his lifetime, and neither has
been made into a CD. His 
"Ron McCroby Plays Puc-
colo" is preserved on the
Vinyl Preservation Project
website.  Here is Joy Spring  
from that album.

 

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CLASSICAL WYNTON
Sony Music 1998
"Moto Perpetuo" was written by Paganini for the violin. A wind instrument player finds that there is no opportunity for a breath. Wynton solves this problem by using "circular breathing"—a technique where the player inhales through his nose while maintaining air pressure with his cheeks, like bagpipes. To the listener, Wynton appears to go for more than four minutes wtihout taking a breath.


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Frank Sinatra
I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU
Sony Music 1995

From 1942 to 1944 the Musicians' strike prevented many singers from recording. Sinatra recorded "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" for Columbia Records in 1943 using the Bobby Tucker Singers as backup. The arrangement has a strange, empty sound by today's standards.


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Harpo was the second oldest Marx, and the one that everyone absolutely loved. (Originally named Adolph, he changed that to Arthur, and later was given the name Harpo.) He was soft-spoken and gentle, and when he walked in the room animals and children ran to him. He was a true musical genius, learning to play several instruments by ear alone. One day when he was a boy, he picked up his grandmother's old harp, put it on the wrong shoulder, and began to play, never to quit. Here he
plays a harp-flute duet  in the movie "Go West."

 

Click here to play. Back in the '50s Red Skelton made
a 45 RPM record for MGM Records
with "Little Babe" on one side and
"Foggy Foggy Dew" on the other.
The instumental backup is provided
by David Rose and his orchestra.
Here is the lullaby "Little Babe."

 

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Brother James' Air

From a collection of
eleven church solos
performed by
Lynn Wolaver.

 

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Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Happy Trails to You

mp3 (2.7 MB)

 

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