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From: nickpackham |
September 18, 2009 |
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Filmed this morning on my N95 using the zoom lens, the RAF's Red Arrows were performing over Hove and Brighton Seafront. The video is a bit shaky due to hanging out of the window to film them. The Video takes a while to get going!!
"Excellent video! It reminds me of my days in the 25th Brighton (Portslade). Many years have passed now since I was discharged. So glad to see the o..."more"Excellent video! It reminds me of my days in the 25th Brighton (Portslade). Many years have passed now since I was discharged. So glad to see the old traditions of the BB."less
Radio Caroline in the sixties as seen by the cinema news magazines of the day. The first item is from April 1964 and features Caroline ship the Fre...
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Radio Caroline in the sixties as seen by the cinema news magazines of the day. The first item is from April 1964 and features Caroline ship the Fredericia off Frinton Essex, shortly after transmissions first started, and three months before she sailed to Ramsey I.O.M and became Radio Caroline North. The second item is from April 1965, filmed in 35mm colour, and features Caroline ship the Mi Amigo off Frinton, which was transmitting as Radio Caroline South. This item plays out with Unit Four Plus Two (Unit 4 + 2) singing "Concrete and Clay" on the banks of the Thames, on the construction site for the new Barbican Centre.
From 1 August 2008 through to the end of August 2009 there is an exhibition in Peel, Isle of Man, celebrating Radio Caroline North - "Pirates Of The Irish Sea" - the first exhibition of its kind (see links below). A new book on Radio Caroline North has been published to coincide with this exhibition "Manx Giant - from the wonderful Isle Of Man" by Andy Wint (see link below) - now reprinted with extra photos. A special 40th anniversary reunion, convention, and trip to Ramsey was held in the I.O.M. on the weekend of 19-21 September 2008 (see links below).
The Revival Show with Kenny Tosh (60s & 70s music and offshore radio memories) online on Radio Six International. Tuesdays 12:00 - 13:00 (GMT) Saturdays 01:00 - 02:00 (GMT) repeat http://www.radiosix.com/index.html
Pirate Radio Skues with Keith Skues (the pirate radio hits of the 60s) on BBC Radio Norfolk Sundays 21:00 - 01:00 (GMT) and listen online at any time on "Listen Again" http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/local_ra...less
Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches - Land of Hope and Glory, conducted by David Robertson with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, B...
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Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches - Land of Hope and Glory, conducted by David Robertson with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus - backed up by the enthusiastic & lively audience at the Royal Albert Hall, and nationwide at the Proms in the Park events
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Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8 / Sir Simon Rattle, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmo...
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Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8 / Sir Simon Rattle, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 6 January 2009.
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri...
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Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in the linden trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, The bones of the dancers are heard to crack— But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.
According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo, represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.
The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals. [from Wikipedia]
Artwork:Remedios Varo,"Les Feuilles Mortes". Played by:National Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor:Leopold Stokowski.
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