Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mozart for the Ages...

...even New Age. Music, that is.

Mozart's Birthplace, Salzburg, Austria, Christmas 2010

On This Mozart's Birthday Anniversary
(27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791)

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Keiko Matsui, piano (1997)
- Into the Forest
(after Mozart, arr. Kazu Matzui)

For the Mozart fans, here is a quiz. Name the original Mozart score for this Matsui arrangement.

If you can provide the right answer, I will send you a classical recording (MP3)by a renown artist of this Mozart composition. This contest expires upon the installation of a new tune.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

One of Those Things

Hubert Giraud wrote this tune, 'Sous le ciel de Paris' (Under Paris Skies) in 1951. My making this YouTube was just one of those things, as Cole Porter would say.

Maurice Larcange, accordion
Under Paris Skies (Sous le ciel de Paris) 1962
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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Christmas 2010 Travel Panoramas







Panoramic View of the Christkindl Village
Styr, Austria, Christmas 2010








                        Panoramic View from the Nuremburg Castle
Nürnberg, Germany, Christmas 2010

            Panoramic View of Regensburg and the Danube River
Regensburg, Germany, Christmas 2010








Panoramic View from the Melk Abbey
Melk, Austria, Christmas 2010

Happy New Year 2011

Vienna at Night, Christmas 2010

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In Classical Mood: Nights in Vienna (1996)
- Radetzky March, Op. 228 (J.Strauss Sr.)