Comments on: Post-convention cool down.

Post-convention cool down.

RussHy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:41:53 -0800

Something calming after the frenzied conventions. John Williams and Julian Bream team up to play a guitar duet of Debussy's Claire De Lune.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:59:10 -0800

*Andres Segovia rushes into the cathedral just as the last bars of the piece finishing ringing* Andres: Guys! Sorry I'm late. The traffic on 95 was unblievable, you guys literally would not have believed it. Anyway, you didn't start without me, did you? Oh, god damn it.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:06:48 -0800

Nice. By the way, it's Clair de Lune (not "Claire"), so you might want to fix the tag in case anyone else looks for it.

By: RussHy

RussHy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:17:19 -0800

Oops. Fixed the tag. Now I have to listen again to regain my mellow...

By: Seekerofsplendor

Seekerofsplendor — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:31:07 -0800

Nice! But he middle section (where the arpeggios start) needs to be up an octave, however. Wonder why they did it lower. Overall, the voicing senorities don't work as well on acoustic guitars as they do on piano, but that's OK, it's still beautiful.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:43:09 -0800

Clair de Lune is just pandering to middlebrow tastes. Give me Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune or give me death.

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:48:02 -0800

Yes, very nice. More of this and less convention-nuttiness, please. CDL is one of my all-time-favorite classical pieces. Many classical pieces that get over-play in movies, advertisements, et. al. sometimes grate on me for that very reason, yet I always seem to welcome another adaptation of this particular work of art. I thought it was particularly well used in The Game, Ocean's 11, and Man on Fire.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:52:45 -0800

I regret what I said about pandering. It came out in the heat of the moment. I just ... get ... so ... WORKED UP about Debussy. And don't even get me started on Karol Szymanowski.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:05:14 -0800

Give me Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune or give me death. Seems like Astro Zombie wouldn't mind either Clair de Lune or death.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:32:09 -0800

*gets Astro Zombie started on Karol Szymanowski*

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:39:59 -0800

This cools me down after all that nasty rhetoric. Well it's more of a cold anger, anyway.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:05:57 -0800

King Roger is not performed nearly often enough. I presume people think it's a musical version of King Ralph.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:19:45 -0800

Because that is how a guitar is tuned; it's an octave down from standard notation. To play it up an octave would have been very difficult and kind of thin/quiet.

By: furtive

furtive — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:34:38 -0800

Ah, so that's where that song comes from that's featured in so many movie scenes. Thanks!

By: potsmokinghippieoverlord

potsmokinghippieoverlord — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:23:34 -0800

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