that the marching band might attempt Sheryl Crow's tune "Soak Up The Sun"? That would be something! Hope you guys can pull it off.
Great tune -- Great message
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
(Sacred Heart Academy MB - Aloha Parade - 2007)
Here's the the youtube link -the comments are a riot.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Jerry Wexler = Rhythm & Blues
A Celebration of LIFE and Music
Jerry Wexler
1917 - 2008
From the RollingStone
NYTimes
Read Red Kelly at The "B" Side He had a wonderful post dedicated to Wexler for his 90th birthday last year.
Star Maker Machine has some great tunes and some Wexler history also
So many great hits.
Such a great life............
Sam & Dave Hold On I'm Coming
The 1966 Stax-Volt European Tour contains performance footage of the first major multi city tour of America's R&B superstars.
Superb performances by Sam & Dave and Otis Redding hypnotized the European kids again opening up new audiences for them and propelling them to stardom.Features Booker T. and the MG's and The Mar-Keys.
Doug Sahm - Sir Douglas Quintet - SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER
(In 1973, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records bought Sahm's contract from Mercury and produced Doug Sahm And Band, a "supergroup" album featuring Bob Dylan, ..........)
(additional links)
Jerry Wexler
1917 - 2008
From the RollingStone
NYTimes
Read Red Kelly at The "B" Side He had a wonderful post dedicated to Wexler for his 90th birthday last year.
Star Maker Machine has some great tunes and some Wexler history also
So many great hits.
Such a great life............
Sam & Dave Hold On I'm Coming
The 1966 Stax-Volt European Tour contains performance footage of the first major multi city tour of America's R&B superstars.
Superb performances by Sam & Dave and Otis Redding hypnotized the European kids again opening up new audiences for them and propelling them to stardom.Features Booker T. and the MG's and The Mar-Keys.
Doug Sahm - Sir Douglas Quintet - SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER
(In 1973, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records bought Sahm's contract from Mercury and produced Doug Sahm And Band, a "supergroup" album featuring Bob Dylan, ..........)
(additional links)
Friday, August 15, 2008
Give those Chinese a hand!!!
The video below is just amazing. It's performed by 21 deaf and mute girls and boys from China's Disabled Peoples Performing Art Troupe and is called "Thousand-hand Guanyin" or thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance.
Guanyin, in Chinese Buddhism and Daoism, is the Goddess of Mercy, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Her full name, Guanshiyin Pusa, means "bodhisattva who observes the sounds of the world"
As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart A thousand hands will naturally come to your aid As long as you are kind and there is love in your heart You will reach out with a thousand hands to help others .Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion, revered by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. Her name is short for Guan Shi Yin. Guan means to observe, watch, or monitor; Shi means the world; Yin means sounds, specifically sounds of those who suffer. Thus, Guan Yin is a compassionate being who watches for, and responds to, the people in the world who cry out for help.
(these dancers rely only on signals from trainers at the four corners of the stage)
Read about the man responsible for this production - Zhang Jigang.
He is an internationally acclaimed Chinese choreographer and a Lieutenant General in the People's Liberation Army. He was the former director of the Song and Dance Ensemble with the People's Liberation Army before promotion in 2006. Zhang Jigang now holds the highest non-combat military officer rank in China.
On August 8th 2008, Zhang Jigang co-directed and choreographed the 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing, China.[2] Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the XXIX Olympiad, called the ceremony "a grand, unprecedented success."[3] The AFP called it "a spectacular opening ceremony."[4] The BBC and The Times concurred by calling it a dazzling and spectacular show in Beijing.[5][6]
Zhang Jigang's most famous and influential production was the thousand hand dance. The piece features 21 hearing impaired dancers who form remarkable arm and hand positions by standing behind each other in a perfect column. Breathtaking images are created as the dancers produce perfectly timed and choreographed movements. The show quickly became a national treasure and overwhelming domestic success. It was first performed internationally at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C. in front of former President of the United States Bill Clinton, senior White House staff and spectators. It generated rave reviews and was showcased shortly thereafter around the world in countries including Australia, Japan, North Korea, Egypt, Turkey and Italy. In 2004 it was performed at the Closing Ceremonies for the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece (see it here) and Miss World 2004 pageant held in Sanya, China[7]. The primary filmed version was captured in 2005 at the Spring Festival in China on CCTV. It subsequently spread across the internet on such sites as Google Video and YouTube (see it here). It is widely estimated that hundreds of millions of Chinese and international viewers around the world have viewed the videos online.
So, what is Bodhisattva?
In Tibetan Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is anyone who is motivated by compassion and seeks enlightenment not only for him/herself but also for everyone...
It was also the title of a tune released in 1973 by Steely Dan -- BODHISATTVA, would you take me by the hand
(Ever wonder what that song meant?)
As with most songs, there are many interpretations
The following video is the same thousand-hand bodhisattva dance as above, but this youtube user, VickyBurns2, has changed the background music.
BRILLIANT!! It works so unbelievably well
The Star Maker Machine music blog happens to have this song featured this week. Great write-up.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Music picks from Obama and McCain
Listen here at NPR
John Mccain's Top Ten
1. Dancing Queen ABBA
2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA
4. If We Make It Through December Merle Haggard
5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
6. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
7. What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
8. I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
9. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond
10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Platter
Barack Obama's Top Ten
1. Ready or Not Fugees
2. What's Going On Marvin Gaye
3. I'm On Fire Bruce Spingsteen
4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
5. Sinnerman Nina Simone
6. Touch the Sky Kanye West
7. You'd Be So Easy to Love Frank Sinatra
8. Think Aretha Franklin
9. City of Blinding Lights U2
10. Yes We Can will.i.am
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
What an Olympic opening
A drum line consisting of 2008 drummers......was that incredible or what!
a commentary from
Karma Drums
Are you lovin' some of the commercials (olympic sponsors) that have been playing?
McDonalds has a cute ad and has picked a great tune for the occasion. The song is called A Minha Menina (here are the lyrics in english) and is performed by a group called
Os Mutantes a big hit for them in 1968. FORTY YEARS AGO!! What great music - timeless for sure. The group was part of the Tropicalia movement that was going on in Brazil at the time.
McDonald's Victory Commercial
and here's the song in full with some guy named Mike from Canada dancing very smoothly to it while atop some scaffolding
a commentary from
Karma Drums
If you attended at a whatever drums performance you know how the sound can kick your body and take you to the sky (or drown down to hell).
I was wondering how i’d felt listening 2008 Fou ancient drums (reloaded with latest tech) playing in the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing for the Olympics opening ceremony. In that stadium we saw a part of the China we love, without forgetting China that we cannot forgive. And without forgetting that we too have something to make us forgive.
Besides all, it seemed to me that those 2008 Fou drums were putting the world on a common ground, at least for few minutes, ‘cos nothing more that beating a drum and dancing comes from deepest fields of our souls. I think that those drums changed the mood of the ceremony: as they were saying to humann beings ‘remember what great you can be when you play’, beating a drum, hitting keyboards running or swimming or competiting fairly.
Are you lovin' some of the commercials (olympic sponsors) that have been playing?
McDonalds has a cute ad and has picked a great tune for the occasion. The song is called A Minha Menina (here are the lyrics in english) and is performed by a group called
Os Mutantes a big hit for them in 1968. FORTY YEARS AGO!! What great music - timeless for sure. The group was part of the Tropicalia movement that was going on in Brazil at the time.
McDonald's Victory Commercial
and here's the song in full with some guy named Mike from Canada dancing very smoothly to it while atop some scaffolding
What's a BLOG???.... and what are we blogging about?
from blogger.com --
So, we hope to get this “blog thing” started right here at NHSME. Well, we actually did and you’re here already -- it really was quite easy! This will be a blog for all parents, students and teachers to share their world of music with each other. The website will be maintained by the Performing Arts Music Booster Club and be open to anyone who wants to participate. Our main purpose is to get a handle on our kid’s schedules (the ones that never make it home in the backpacks) -- practice times, rehearsals, concert dates, trips, fundraising info, and so on. Our other goal is to come together as a group to assist our music teachers.
As you know, our music teachers go over, above, and beyond the call of duty in providing our kids with the music environment they are fortunate to be part of.
Budgets are stretched everywhere and the majority of clubs and sports teams are now supported by the parents paying fees to participate. We would be in great shape as a Booster club if every music family paid the membership fee. This is not a requirement to participate in the music programs though. We send a letter home in the mail every September asking for parents to join, but our response isn’t usually very large. So, we do need help with our fundraising goals and this Blog will hopefully help us accomplish them. Also, it will provide parents with up to date information on what’s going on in their kid’s world of music - since we have to get them there.
Put NSHME on your favorites today. Now you can be the first to know.
Enjoy your new music blog!
(See the post - “How to use this blog” for further instructions)
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And we're pretty sure the whole deal is just getting started.
So, we hope to get this “blog thing” started right here at NHSME. Well, we actually did and you’re here already -- it really was quite easy! This will be a blog for all parents, students and teachers to share their world of music with each other. The website will be maintained by the Performing Arts Music Booster Club and be open to anyone who wants to participate. Our main purpose is to get a handle on our kid’s schedules (the ones that never make it home in the backpacks) -- practice times, rehearsals, concert dates, trips, fundraising info, and so on. Our other goal is to come together as a group to assist our music teachers.
As you know, our music teachers go over, above, and beyond the call of duty in providing our kids with the music environment they are fortunate to be part of.
Budgets are stretched everywhere and the majority of clubs and sports teams are now supported by the parents paying fees to participate. We would be in great shape as a Booster club if every music family paid the membership fee. This is not a requirement to participate in the music programs though. We send a letter home in the mail every September asking for parents to join, but our response isn’t usually very large. So, we do need help with our fundraising goals and this Blog will hopefully help us accomplish them. Also, it will provide parents with up to date information on what’s going on in their kid’s world of music - since we have to get them there.
Put NSHME on your favorites today. Now you can be the first to know.
Enjoy your new music blog!
(See the post - “How to use this blog” for further instructions)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
How to participate on this blog
Here are some instructions from blogger
on how to post comments. If you have information that you would like us to post, you can e-mail the info to ________________________ and we will add it to the blog asap.
As we get things going, we will need the kids who are section leaders and officers in their respective groups to make sure they post all announcements as soon as possible. We can even set up separate sections on the blog site for teachers to add information if they want.
on how to post comments. If you have information that you would like us to post, you can e-mail the info to ________________________ and we will add it to the blog asap.
As we get things going, we will need the kids who are section leaders and officers in their respective groups to make sure they post all announcements as soon as possible. We can even set up separate sections on the blog site for teachers to add information if they want.
Let's Get This Party Started
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Early SCOPITONE allegedly directed by Robert Altman
"Bittersweet Samba" Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
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Early SCOPITONE allegedly directed by Robert Altman
"Bittersweet Samba" Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Dance The Night Away
The Mavericks - 1998
Learn the Dance
What a great tune to cut loose to in the grocery store........
This is another delightful video of Dance The Night Away -- (click here to watch)
Stay tuned for more info on our upcoming Booster Dance 'fun'draiser
(Please leave ideas in comment section)
BONUS DANCE VIDEO
Watch Christopher (the king of cool) Walken in this "2002 Best Video" dancing to the song "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim
Learn the Dance
What a great tune to cut loose to in the grocery store........
This is another delightful video of Dance The Night Away -- (click here to watch)
Stay tuned for more info on our upcoming Booster Dance 'fun'draiser
(Please leave ideas in comment section)
BONUS DANCE VIDEO
Watch Christopher (the king of cool) Walken in this "2002 Best Video" dancing to the song "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim
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