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13, 17, and 24 for the ask game

13: One of your favorite 80’s songs

(I'm putting two here because I couldn't choose. head over heels is very nostalgic for me and I love tears for fears in general. money for nothing I love especially for it's build-up at the beginning - very floydian)

17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

(this feels like a lazy answer but. I mean. Top Ten Divorce Songs)

24: A song by a band you wish were still together

("wish were still together" comes with a lot of caveats for p!atd, but I used to be a huge fan of them when I was younger, and it was such a shame to see brendon urie slowly sell his soul. the work they did as a whole band is so good – I like this album for its beatles-y influences)

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8/30 おはようございます。 Nina Simone / Nina Simone Sings The Blues RD7883 等更新しました。

Nina Simone / Nina Simone Sings The Blues RD7883Monica Borrfors / Your Touch cap1350Peggy Lee / Blues Cross Country t1671Mabel Mercer / Merely Marvelous 1322 Martin Taylor / Don’t Fret akh014Clifford Jordan / In The World ses1972-1David Alexandre Winter / Oh Lady Mary 521116 VA Jazzrockova Dilna 2 110598Left Lane / In Common SIS0004Black Grass Music / Bad Bascomb pas6048Ohio Players / Fire…

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07. How to listen for music...anywhere

This unit has really opened my perspective to another side of environmental interpretation and how music is always present if you take the time to listen. Considering our weeks topic I took some time to think about whether I’ve had experiences with music within nature, I was racking my brain, resigned to the idea there I haven’t ever connected to the environment through music until I realized my very first blog post illustrated an experience I had in the Caribbean, heavily influenced by the sounds of the wind and waves and seagulls, melded together to create this tranquil symphony that I actually think about quite often. Most of us rely so heavily on sight to create memories but I think smell, touch, sound are also the senses we tend to use to form the strongest connections with our atmosphere much more than we realize. We can use this realization to explore ways to recreate melodious experiences and invoke emotions.

Natural sounds often have inherent rhythms. Waves crashing, for instance, have a rhythmic pattern created by the motion of the water. Similarly, winds howling can have varying intensities and patterns. We can translate these rhythmic patterns into musical rhythms. For example, the crashing waves could be represented by percussion instruments like drums, while the howling winds could be inspired by flutes or saxophones.

We could also consider the moods each sound creates because mood influences emotion which in turn categorizes how we recall positive or negative memories. Waves crashing might evoke feelings of power, motion, and vastness, while winds howling could evoke a sense of mystery, solitude, or urgency. We could then translate these emotional qualities into musical elements like tempo, dynamics, and harmonic progression. So crashing waves could make you think of strong and rhythmic drum beats, while howling winds could inspire eerie melodies.

Whether it be replicating sound-based memories through music or introducing new natural sounds like bird calls or crashing waves, immersing learners in the sounds of nature can deepen their understanding and appreciation of the environment, especially highlighting key elements about ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation efforts.

References:

Wernick, A. & Bascomb, B. (2021).'Nature is always singing': Now you can make your own music from nature's sounds. The World. https://theworld.org/stories/2021-03-14/nature-always-singing-now-you-can-make-your-own-music-natures-sounds

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0jTXhUcVo)

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Skylark – With Aretha Franklin

Skylark – With Aretha Franklin

The skylark sings its unusually long song while flying up to 100 feet above the ground. (Photo: caroline legg, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) The skylark is the only bird in North America that sings for three minutes straight while in flight. Aretha Franklin’s soulful rendition of “Skylark” accompanies the bird’s airborne song in this piece from BirdNote’s Mary McCann. Transcript BASCOMB: The beautiful song…

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playlist for her lol <3

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Twelve months slipped by at a pace this year. Thinking about it at first I was convinced that 2014 had been worryingly barren for me culturally, due to the restrictions of work and life and a new-found affection for sleeping. On reflection it seems I did manage to get out of the house on occasion, listen to the odd record and take in a show or two. Here’s what I liked, or what I can remember liking in no particular order….

‘Salad Days’ by Mac Demarco made a big impression on me. I am a sucker for melody in music and this kid (he is only a kid, twenty-three or something) can’t help but write songs with an instant hook. He also has a gorgeously dry sense of humour, plays a mean guitar and is Canadian. I like Canadian people. The album speaks very simply but with great fluency about love, the fear of losing that love, and what it means to be alive today. It is beautifully and simply produced and puts a smile on my face every time I listen to the album. I managed to catch Mac play in Manchester in may, a brilliantly ramshackle gig which climaxed with the whole venue on our knees singing along to ‘Unknown Legend’ and giving thanks to Neil Young.

I love the new Blake Mills album ‘Heigh Ho’. Another great guitar player, with a tone very reminiscent of George Harrison, it’s a definite grower but one worth waiting for.

The new Caribou album deserves all the plaudits its earning. Such a great record – designed to make you dance.

A Winged Victory for the Sullen very slowly prised the roof off the Barbican in October with genuinely affecting and moving music. An amazing show and an amazing group of musicians.

I also caught Damon Albarn live in Manchester at the 6music festival – thank God for BBC 6 music! I am very impressed by Damon Albarn as a man and musician. This is a highly personal record, filled to the brim with gorgeous melodies and revealing lyrics, my high point being ‘Heavy Seas Of Love’ a duet with Brian Eno.

Ok I did see a lot of gigs in Manchester, I was working there for a stretch, they are coming back to me now……. with maybe the highlight being Prince. I’ve wanted to see him play live for ever and the man did not disappoint. It was a three and a half hour gig, during which he jumped effortlessly between hits and space-funk jams with his all female backing band. It’s a nice feeling when a legend lives up to their legendary status. Finally, I managed to catch Tame Impala in L.A. Love this band, such confident musicians, they completely filled the auditorium with blissed out fuzz-drenched tunes. Their support act Delicate Steve I also highly recommend, a very unusual guitar player, his music is of the joyous instrumental kind you want to listen to walking around feeling warm inside while everybody else looks worried.

The Richard Ford trilogy of ‘The Sportswriter’, ‘Independence Day’ and ‘The Lay Of The Land’ rank high amongst my favorite all-time novels, and this year Ford re-introduced us to Frank Bascombe (protagonist of all three novels) in his latest novel ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’. Frank is now in his late sixties but as compelling a character as ever. It’s a brief book, written as a series of short stories but is as incisive and acerbic an investigation of the American dream as I have read.

‘The Dog’ by Joseph O’Neill is also a joy, a book that is as tragic as it is funny.

For some reason I recently decided to re-read some books that I had read in my teens to check if they were still the masterpieces I had first ostentatiously judged them to be. ‘The Book Of Evidence’ by John Banville certainly remains one. Such an extraordinary tour-de-force. If you haven’t read it recently please do. It will inhabit you. I also re-visited some Salinger. Those early short stories still must be unmatchable in terms of heartache and droll musings on American youth and life.

After the sad passing of Dermot Healy this year the only fitting tribute I could think of was to read ‘A Goats Song’ once more. I fell in love with it all over again, sad and mournful and touching – part of this Island’s history.

I’ll finish up now as I realise writing these things can cause quickening anxiety about leaving some wonderful book or poem or song out without a mention.

Before I go I must write briefly about some visual art I saw. Mark Garry’s show – at the Model in Sligo town, “A Winter’s Light” – was a thing of beauty, delicate and life-affirming. I recently saw Douglas Gordon’s show ‘Tears become Streams’ at the Armoury in NYC. It featured concert pianist Helene Grimaud play a series of pieces inspired by water while the extraordinarily vast space was slowly flooded by water creating a lake on which she seemed to hover and also turning the space upside down in reflection. Breathtaking.

So that is it……. I appear to have completely left out any mention of film and theatre. So be it. They will have to wait until next year.

—Cillian Murphy

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The 44 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in March 2020

Here is the list of the 44 books that I posted on this site, JewishBookWorld.org in March 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

The A-Z of Intermarriage by Denise Handlarski (on this site)

Appreciating self-deprecation; review of “A Horse Walks Into a Bar” by David Grossman (on this site)

A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (on this site)

The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility by Elliott Rabin (on this site)

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel (on this site)

Chasing Echoes by Dan Goldman (on this site)

Citizen 865 by Debbie Cenziper (on this site)

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad (on this site)

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz (on this site)

Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews by Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin (on this site)

Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best by Neal Bascomb (on this site)

The Free and the Brave by Tovah S. Yavin (on this site)

The Generous Fish by Jacqueline Jules (on this site)

Glikl: Memoirs 1691-1719 by Glikl (on this site)

He is a Glutton and a Drunkard’. Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible by by Rebekah Welton (on this site)

Hedy and her Amazing Invention by Jan Wahl (on this site)

Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis (on this site)

Last Impressions by Joseph Kertes (on this site)

The Life of a Coat by Kadya Molodowsky (on this site)

The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron (on this site)

Matzah Ball Surprise by Laura Brown (on this site)

Matzah Mia! by Libi Astaire (on this site)

Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile by Eleanor Foa (on this site)

My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List by Rina Finder, Joshua M. Greene (on this site)

Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson (on this site)

Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust by Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff (on this site)

The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times by Alana Newhouse (on this site)

A Persian Princess by Barbara Diamond Goldin (on this site)

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan (on this site)

Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (on this site)

The Return of Carvajal: A Mystery by Ilan Stavans (on this site)

Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman (on this site)

The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America by Ilan Stavans (on this site)

The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Donna Rifkind (on this site)

They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children by Hannah Hahn (on this site)

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman (on this site)

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael Dobbs (on this site)

Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus (on this site)

The Watchmaker by B.L. Blocher (on this site)

What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter (on this site)

What Is Missing by Michael Frank (on this site)

Who Will Ask the Four Questions by Naomi Ben-Gur (on this site)

The Winemaker’s Wife by Kristin Harmel (on this site)

The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner (on this site)

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5 Nonfiction Bibliographies (Content / Primary Sources)

Anderson, Laurie Halse. (2000). Fever, 1793. New York, New York :Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Themes- family, survival, effects of the past, nature vs man

Lexile- 580

Readers- 10-15

During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/fever-1793-discussion-guide/

Angelou, M. (1969). I know why the caged bird sings. New York, NY: Random House.

Themes- hate, coming of age, loss of innocence, religion, beauty, prejudice

Lexile- 1010

Readers- 14-18

In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant. https://www.amazon.com/Know-Why-Caged-Bird-Sings/dp/0345514408

Bascomb, N. (2013). The nazi hunters: how a team of spies and survivors captured the worlds most notorious nazi. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Themes- courage, effects of the past, justice, war, secrecy, revenge

Lexile- 1000

Readers- 11-13

A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials, one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination. The Nazi Hunters is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Survivor Simon Wiesenthal opened Eichmann's case; a blind Argentinean and his teenage daughter provided crucial information. Finally, the Israeli spies, many of whom lost family in the Holocaust, embarked on their daring mission, recounted here in full. Based on the adult bestseller Hunting Eichmann,which is now in development as a major film, and illustrated with powerful photos throughout. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/the-nazi-hunters-by-neal-bascomb/

Pelzer, D. J. (1995). A child called "it": an abused childs journey from victim to victor. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications.

Themes- abuse, identity, abuse of power, survival, courage, beating the odds

Lexile- 850

Readers- 14-17

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive--dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son. https://www.amazon.com/Child-Called-Childs-Courage-Survive/dp/1558743669

Stanley, D. (1992). Bard of Avon: the story of William Shakespeare. New York, NY: Morrow Junior Books.

Themes- quest for knowledge, coming of age, beating the odds

Lexile- 1030

Readers- 14-18

Nobody knows exactly when or why William Shakespeare left his boyhood home of Stratford-on-Avon for the great city of London, but it didn't take long for him to make a name for himself. His plays are now performed almost every day in just about every part of the world; even people who've never seen them use words and phrases he introduced into the English language. How did a man from an unremarkable family create a legacy that the world, even 400 years after his death, has never forgotten? There will always be unsolved mysteries about Shakespeare, but what we do know of his life, his times, and his theater makes for a very dramatic story. https://www.amazon.com/Bard-Avon-Story-William-Shakespeare/dp/0062419250

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Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow) and Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), photo Tristram Kenton

After the sensation of Oklahoma Rodgers and Hammerstein pushed the dramatic boundaries even further with their next production Carousel. The contrast with some of the bland story-lite jukebox musicals around London and Broadway today could not be greater. In many ways, certainly in respect of the book, Carousel has more in common with opera than it does with conventional musical theatre. But that was the Rodgers and Hammerstein way. They never took the easy route and all of their works were original and most tackled difficult themes. Here suicide, the afterlife, spouse abuse and serious crime. There is feeling galore but no sentiment. Mamma Mia it is not!

There is no comfort zone in Carousel. The beautiful songs are placed in the context of dysfunctional characters and a challenging plot line. Billy Bigelow is an anti-hero with some of the macho bravado we were later to see with Brando in On the Waterfront and the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story. The Bernstein masterwork owes much to the earlier ground-breaking book and lyrics works of Oscar Hammerstein – from Showboat onwards and above all in his partnership with Richard Rodgers. Stephen Sondheim – lyricist of West Side Story – learned his craft at the feet of Hammerstein.

This new production of Carousel by the English National Opera at the Coliseum is excellent in every way. It is “semi-staged” which means only, I think, that there are no complex sets. It’s the first production of the musical I have seen which doesn’t have an actual carousel on the stage at any point! But it is represented well with the clever use of the revolve and props. The absence of clever tricks actually makes one concentrate more on the music, the drama and the performances. The latter are very good. Katherine Jenkins was quite superb as Julie Jordan. Her voice is perfect for the part; she acts well and looks lovely. Alfie Boe’s Bigelow was powerful and lyrical and he also looked good. It was a surprise when after Act One there was an announcement that he had a fever and couldn’t continue. His understudy Will Barrett filled in well in Act Two in which the character only has one solo anyway.

The Prologue is enhanced by a beautifully choreographed and danced routine which is an early reminder that one of the innovations of Rodgers and Hammerstein early musicals was dance – often on the cusp of modern dance and ballet. Josh Rhodes choreography is superb throughout with, I think, references back to Agnes de Mille’s work on the original 1945 production. One of the benefits of an opera company doing musical theatre is that you can be sure that the chorus will sing and act well – and they certainly do here. Richard Rodgers’ score and Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics have to shine through the action, so good are they. Here they do with the voice amplification – de rigueur in musicals always absent in opera – effective and adding clarity to the sound. The distinction between musical theatre and opera has always been blurred – where does one end and the other begin?

Here we have a skilled theatre and musical theatre director, Lonny Price, working with an opera company and it seems seamless. Add in the fact that while Alfie Boe has a solid background both in musical theatre and opera for Katherine Jenkins this was her theatre debut. Her voice we knew to be wonderful but her talent in character on the stage had been hidden. This will, I’m sure, be the beginning of a stage career which could perhaps cross the divide between musical theatre and opera. Why not?

Centre Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow) and Company, photo Tristram Kenton

Carousel does not need to be a “star vehicle” – although the presence of Boe and Jenkins and Nicholas Lyndhurst (in a fairly minor non-singing role) as “names” will no doubt bring the punters in. If for many customers this is their first exposure to Carousel or even to Rodgers and Hammerstein (The Sound of Music perhaps excepted) then I hope that they got a feel for how good the genre is. And if so I hope that we will regularly see more of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals on the London stage. The production of the rarely performed Allegro at the Southwark Playhouse last year showed that there are hidden gems in the oeuvre which can benefit from revival.

Carousel has a limited run to 13th May 2017. Try and see it if you can!

Review by Paddy Briggs

When the charming Carousel Barker, Billy Bigelow falls in love with Julie Jordan, little do they realise that their relationship will end in tragedy. Fifteen years after getting caught up in an armed robbery, Billy gets the chance to redeem his past and restore pride to his family.

Lonny Price (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunset Boulevard) returns to the Coliseum to direct a strictly limited run of 41 performances.

The cast for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the third production in the partnership between The GradeLinnit Company and English National Opera (ENO), comprises Katherine Jenkins (Julie Jordan), Alfie Boe (Billy Bigelow), Nicholas Lyndhurst (Star Keeper), Derek Hagen (Jigger Craigin), Alex Young (Carrie Pipperidge), Brenda Edwards (Nettie Fowler), Gavin Spokes (Enoch Snow), Susan Kyd (Mrs Mullin), Amy Everett (Louise), Davide Fienauri (Carnival Boy) and Martyn Ellis (Mr Bascombe).

Lonny Price will direct the season of 41 performances at ENO’s London Coliseum. Beginning on 7 April 2017, with press night on 11 April 2017 at 7pm, the final performance in this strictly limited five-week run takes place on 13 May 2017. ENO award-winning 40-piece orchestra and chorus, conducted by David Charles Abell, will accompany the cast in this semi-staged version. Tickets for Carousel are £12 – £110, with over 100 available at £12 for every performance.

Further cast members are Bruce Aguilar Rohan, Thomas Audibert, Will Barratt, Jay Bryce, Danielle Cato, Jacob Chapman, Nolan Edwards, Alexander Evans, Lizzi Franklin, Alice Jane, Tessa Kadler, Hannah Kenna Thomas, Jasmine Leung, Molly Lynch, Leisha Mollyneaux, Rachel Muldoon, Saori Oda, Kane Oliver Parry, Daniel Perry, Alastair Postlethwaite, Joseph Poulton, Verity Quade, Genevieve Taylor, James Titchener, Adam Vaughan, Matthew Whennell-Clark and Anna Woodside.

London Coliseum St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4ES Booking From: 7th Apr 2017 Booking Until: 13th May 2017

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8/30 おはようございます。 Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band / Clear Spot ms2115 等更新しました。

Nina Simone / Nina Simone Sings The Blues RD7883 Monica Borrfors / Your Touch cap1350 Peggy Lee / Blues Cross Country t1671 Mabel Mercer / Merely Marvelous 1322  Martin Taylor / Don’t Fret akh014 Clifford Jordan / In The World ses1972-1 David Alexandre Winter / Oh Lady Mary 521116  VA Jazzrockova Dilna 2 110598 Left Lane / In Common SIS0004 Black Grass Music / Bad Bascomb pas6048 Ohio Players / Fire srm1-1013  Jah Wobble the Edge Holger Czukay / Snake Charmer 90151-1-b Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band / Clear Spot ms2115 Randy Carlos Y Su Orq / Spanish Rice - Sabroso 202  Wando / Gosto de Maca colp12227