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@EdmundStAustell According to something I read once about him, he performed the role in Denmark in 1919, repeating it in Nuremburg, Hamburg and the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin between then and 1930. However, as he became increasingly cast in Wagnerian roles, this role fell by the way...

@fafnis And they'd been with Karajan for so long that he hardly had to move any more in order for them to know what he wanted from them, which was increasingly important, as he became less and less capable of movement as the years went by...

@martimax34 Shirley Bassey was already very well known in the early 1960s as the singer of the theme song for "Goldfinger." She also recorded the theme songs for "Diamonds Are Forever and "Moonraker" in the 1970s. Propellerheads had done the music for "Tomorrow Never Dies" and basically wrote t...

@MrRandyweston Before that she had a role on Hotel with James Brolin, Connie Selleca and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr...

@steamednotfried Perhaps Richter is playing it because, like many of us, he doesn't share your opinion of this piece and finds it worth playing. You may have the right to your opinions, including the one in which you state that this, unlike many of Chopin's etudes, is just a "study," but that d...

@AMHardulak I think that Walt Whitman, whose words Vaughan Williams set for this piece, would also appreciate the take on what is meant by the "Unknown Region."

I might also point out that one of the most profound pieces in Mozart's Magic Flute is the Chorale Prelude for the two Armed Men as Tamino is about to enter on the final trials. This was definitely composed in the Baroque style and as an homage to Bach, whose music Mozart had definitely studied....

@mees04101993 In the light of this performance is that the ONLY thing you can think to say? How utterly sad...

Definitely not Sousa's Boy Scouts of America, but I like the piece. Does anyone know the actual title?

@Oliverfelix72 Ever heard of the Righteous Brothers? They also did blue-eyed Soul. Hall and Oates did a great cover of their monster hit, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin.'"

@Zebred2001 You're quite right about the music that's out there today, but it's a sobering thought that over 95% of all the music ever written and performed has suffered the same fate. Some of the music we consider so great today was almost forgotten the same way, and I can cite you chapter and ...

@sunrisewizard Me, too, but I have to say that the original lyrics are much more multi-faceted in meaning and much less simplistic. To be honest, I find his wish that one should laugh, dance and be happy like a loon, celebrating his life rather than mourning his death, much more moving than "We ...

@yousaiditzero No, I mean that Evgeny Kissin has been concertizing in the U.S. since 1990. He isn't a centenarian, you know... ;-)'

@pacificwesttube As I understand it, this was one of those songs credited to Lennon/McCartney but basically written by McCartney. While there are some harmonic things I doubt George Martin would have allowed in this cover, the basic feel of this cover is very close to the original Beatles sound...