Michael's Brother's Birthday Anniversary

Franz Josef Haydn
Father of the Symphony and String Quartet
(31 March, 1732 - 31 May, 1809)
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John Wallace, trumpet (1996)
Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major - Andante (Haydn)

不了情 [Never, My Love II]

An interpretive visualization of the popular Chinese pop tune [不了情].
By request, this YouTube is now captioned in traditional Chinese.

鄧麗君 - 不了情
[Never, My Love II]
This version II is traditional Chinese captioned.
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Vangelis Birthday Anniversary

Evangelos "Vangelis" Papathanassiou
Greek Composer
Academy Award Best Music, Orginal Score
1982: Chariots of Fire

29 March, 1943  -
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Don Persival, vocals (1982)
- One More Kiss Dear (Vangelis and Skellem)




One More Kiss Dear

Film: Blade Runner (1982)
Composer: Vangelis
Words: Peter Skellern
Vocals: Don Percival

One more kiss, dear
One more sigh
Only this, dear
It's goodbye
For our love is such pain
And such pleasure
That I'll treasure till I die

So for now, dear
Au revoir, my belle
But I vow dear
Not farewell
For in time we may
Have though love's glory
Our love story to tell

Just as every autumn
Leaves fall from the tree
Tumble to the ground and die
So in was springtime
Like sweet memories
They will return as will I

Like the sun, dear
Upon high
We'll return, dear
To the sky
And we'll banish
The pain and the sorrow
Until tomorrow goodbye

Recitative:
[One more kiss, dear
One more sigh
Only this, dear
Is goodbye
For our love is such passion
Such pleasure
I will treasure until I die]

Like the sun, dear
Upon high
We'll return, dear
To the sky
And we'll banish
The pain and the sorrow
Until tomorrow goodbye

Palm Sunday 2010: Thou Who Dist Love Me

Palm Sunday
Title: "He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God"
- Christina Rossetti

I lift mine eyes, and see
Thee, tender Lord, in pain upon the tree,
Athirst for my sake and athirst for me.
"Yea, look upon Me there,
Compassed with thorns and bleeding everywhere,
For thy sake bearing all, and glad to bear."
I lift my heart to pray:
Thou Who didst love me all that darkened day,
Wilt Thou not love me to the end alway?
"Yea, thee My wandering sheep,
Yea, thee My scarlet sinner slow to weep,
Come to Me, I will love thee and will keep."
Yet am I racked with fear:
Behold the unending outer darkness drear,
Behold the gulf unbridgeable and near!
"Nay, fix thy heart, thine eyes,
Thy hope upon My boundless sacrifice:
Will I lose lightly one so dear-bought prize?"
Ah, Lord; it is not Thou,
Thou that wilt fail; yet woe is me, for how
Shall I endure who half am failing now?
"Nay, weld thy resolute will
To Mine: glance not aside for good or ill:
I love thee; trust Me still and love Me still."
Yet Thou Thyself hast said,
When Thou shalt sift the living from the dead
Some must depart shamed and uncomforted.
"Judge not before that day:
Trust Me with all thy heart, even tho' I slay:
Trust Me in love, trust on, love on, and pray.

Doris à la Jane

Jay Livingston
American-born Academy Awards Music Composer
1956: Que Sera Sera
(28 March, 1915 - 17 October, 2001)
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Jane Seidel (2001)
Que Sera Sera (Livingston and Evans)

Sproing!

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Robert Irving, Concert Arts Orchestra (1960)
- Spring (excerpt from Op. 67, Glazunov)

The Obama Care Vote in Congress Today

"For well forewarned, and not suddenly or secretly shall you be entangled in the inextricable net of calamity by reason of your folly."

Prometheus Bound, 1071 -- Aeschylus

Thanks, Johann

Johann Sebastian Bach
Father of Music
(21 March, 1685 - 28 July, 1750)
325 birthday anniversary

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Rudi Moosmeier, jazz piano (2006)
Minuet in G Major (JS Bach)

In Spring...

It's 20 March, 2010. The first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

an old man's fancy...
... tumbles fondly over the ever youthful verses of Tennyson:

"In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young,
And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung."

Locksley Hall -- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

... and he pertly grins as he looks on not at his newspaper.

Rapture in Nature's Kiss

Sighs were meant for an hour like this
When joy is keen as a thrust of pain.
Do you wonder the poet’s heart should miss
This touch of rapture in Nature’s kiss
And dream of Asolo ever again?

--excerpt from "Browning at Asolo"
Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937)

Eliane Elias
Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, etc.,
19 March, 1960 –    
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Eliane Elias, jazz piano (2002)
Kissed by Nature (Elias)