Sunday, November 09, 2014

Bass-Bariton Bryn Terfel's Birthday Today

Bryn Terfel
Welsh Bass-Baritone
(Born 9 November 1965)

Double-feature Bryn Terfel Tracks:

Bryn Terfel, vocal (2012) - "Art Hyd Y Nos (All Through the Night)"
Bryn Terfel, vocal (2012) - "Deep River"

The MP3 below expired on 11-11-2014.
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Thursday, November 06, 2014

If You Know Souza Like I Know Souza


Today is the birthday anniversary of John Philip Souza, "The March King."

John Philip Souza
American-born composer and band director
(6 November 1854 - 6 March 1932)

Double-feature Sousa Tracks:

Henry Mancini and Concert Band(1972) - "Semper Fidelis"
Henry Mancini and Concert Band(1972) - "El Capitan"

These double-feature MP3 tunes expired on 11-09-2014.
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Monday, November 03, 2014

Past and Future Media Postings Are Being Housed at Wix.com

I am in the process of migrating my media contents (i.e. Featured Music, iOS Ringtones, and YouTubes) to Wix.com.

This new web hosting source is an improvement over what I have been using. Wix aids my placing almost all media files in one location in the cloud. It also allows me to expand and contract web content as needed.

The two improvements at my new web site are: 1)all posted iOS Ringtones will be available for download; and 2)all posted YouTubes are gathered in one indexed page for faster user access and navigation.


Click here for: My New Consolidated Media Web Site

Mira, O Norma

A birthday anniversary on 3 November 2014

Vincenzo Bellini, Italian-born opera composer
(3 November 1801 - 23 September 1835)


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Montserrat Caballé, soprano
Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano

Duet - "Mira o Norma" (from Bellini's opera 'Norma') 7'36"

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Adelade Proctor's Birthday Anniversary

Adelade Anne Proctor
English Poet
(30 October 1825 - 2 February 1864)

The MP3 below expired on 11-03-2014.
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David Hughes, tenor (1968)
- The Lost Chord (Proctor & Sullivan)

Trying Out Wix.com

I have been doing my HTML coding for for this blog and music pages for many moons. Since Wix.com offers a HTML 5 free web page constructing and hosting, I decided to give it a try tonight.

The Wix HTML 5 GUI is fairly easy to use. I was also able to embed some custom HTML codes for content enhancement. The more complex HTML coding and some common file types (i.e. txt and csv) are currently not supported, however. Strange and unexpected. The system accepts the Microsoft file extensions as that of PDF, MP3 and other media formats as well. More important, the web server access, editor,and page refresh rates are very responsive. I would have liked having a FTP feature to upload my HTML codes and file contents to the web server and be done with it. Given the business objectives of Wix.com, I understand why FTP was not included. I was able to do 70% of my HTML codes fairly quickly by just using the Wix's web building tools provided.

Overall, the Wix web page builder works as advertised. I highly recommend it for users interested in learning and creating web pages for personal and professional goals.


Monday, October 20, 2014

Autumnal Sky - 20 October 2014

Autumn mornings before sunrise the splendor of the heavens can be seen very clearly. Below is a picture I took this morning of the moon and Jupiter together.

iPhone 5s camera
20 October 2014
0553 hours facing east before sunrise

"Eastward was my glance directed,
Watching for the sun's first rays;
In the south—oh, sight of wonder!
Rose the bright orb's sudden blaze.
Thither was my eye attracted;
Vanished bay and mountain height,
Earth and heaven unseen and all things,
All but that enchanted light." - Goethe, "Faust"


Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Thou Art Welcome, Heaven's Delicious Breath

October

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath,
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief.
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Wind of the sunny south! oh still delay
In the gay woods and in the golden air,
Like to a good old age released from care,
Journeying, in long serenity, away.
In such a bright, late quiet, would that
Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,
And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
And music of kind voices ever nigh;
And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.