Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
9 Jan 2008
5 Oct 2007
Bee Gees
To-Love-Somebody-
Die Bee Gees was nog altyd een van my groot gunstelinge. Hulle bly darem 'n wenneer. Jy kan in enige bui wees en na hulle luister en hulle sit jou sommer in die regte bui! Fluweel-musiek!
James Blunt, music movie
Ek het James se CD...."Back to bedlam" en daarop verskyn die liedjie wat op die video is, "You're beautiful". Ander wat ook mooi is, is "Goodbye my lover", "Tears and rain" en "High"...
30 Sept 2007
21 Sept 2007
Peer Gynt
Chris from My kop op 'n blok inspired me to write about Peer Gynt. I read his post about Peer Gynt and that took me back to my secondary school when I was 14. Our music teacher discussed the story about the music/play of Peer Gynt, composed by Edvard Grieg. I loved it, and "Anitra's dance" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" were my favourite bits.
Last year, I taught a mixed Y5/Y6 class and I played them the animation on BBC 's Radio 3's website. The music you hear on Radio 3's site is "In the Hall of the Mountain King!" Have some "messy fun" on their site!!
We listened to the music first, they drew a storyboard, which they thought would suit the music best. Then I showed them the animation and they then drew a second storyboard with the real story in a sequence... they loved this animation which is quite good...have a look! I myself found it enjoyable! I was really impressed when I found it on the web!
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is the greatest composer Norway has fostered. In retrospect one may wonder how a country with neither national freedom nor a long tradition of art music could have produced a man of such genius. Up to 1814 Norway had been totally subject to Denmark, with Copenhagen as its cultural center. From 1814 to 1905 it was forced into a union with Sweden. The first half of the eighteenth century was a time of poverty in Norway and it was some time before it could assert itself among its Scandinavian brothers.
We listened to the music first, they drew a storyboard, which they thought would suit the music best. Then I showed them the animation and they then drew a second storyboard with the real story in a sequence... they loved this animation which is quite good...have a look! I myself found it enjoyable! I was really impressed when I found it on the web!
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is the greatest composer Norway has fostered. In retrospect one may wonder how a country with neither national freedom nor a long tradition of art music could have produced a man of such genius. Up to 1814 Norway had been totally subject to Denmark, with Copenhagen as its cultural center. From 1814 to 1905 it was forced into a union with Sweden. The first half of the eighteenth century was a time of poverty in Norway and it was some time before it could assert itself among its Scandinavian brothers.
Peer Gynt is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1867, and first performed in Christiania (now Oslo) on 24 February 1876, with incidental music by the composer Edvard Grieg. Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt while traveling in Rome, on Ischia and in Sorrento. It was first published on November 14, 1867, in Copenhagen. The first edition comprised 1,250 copies. It was followed by a re-print of 2,000 copies after 14 days.
Read HEREabout the play, Peer Gynt.
Whoops!! Just found this on Youtube!! Listen to "In the hall of the Mountain King!"
And.........here is "Anitra's dance!"
19 Sept 2007
Mango Groove
Read about Claire Johnston, born in the UK, but has lived in South Africa most of her life, on this link.
In the following music movie, Claire sings the Australian as well as the South African national anthems before a rugby match....in South Africa.
15 Sept 2007
13 Sept 2007
Water organ
This water organ makes me wonder if the water organ at Lake Centurion still operates! I spent many a night there listening and watching! And Jo'burg's?
A little while ago, I was saying on my blog that I want to lose weight! Well, I haven't started with a diet...I never can...the moment when I say I diet...then I wanna eat 10 times more...so I don't say I'm on a diet..I just eat less...and this morning...the scale has told me...that I 've lost 2 kg's the past two days! I couldn't believe my eyes..so I took the scale downstairs...in different places...upstairs...bathroom, corridor...still the same! So!! I think I'm smart! hahaha...I don't weigh myself everyday, but I do know that I weighed 2 more 2 days ago than this morning!
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri is still one of the greatest artists!
And another...in German...
Nana....With Love
another Nana...!
3 Sept 2007
Laurika and Space
I've always been interested in space....the planets....anything space or geography...one of my favourite subjects at school. I had a teacher in Secondary and she made geography always very interesting....btw..search my site for..."nebula/nebulae" I have some good pictures from Nasa and some art which my Y5/6 mixed class did earlier this year.
This is Laurika Rauch! She's got a lovely voice!!
An English song of her...beautiful!
This is Laurika Rauch! She's got a lovely voice!!
An English song of her...beautiful!
2 Sept 2007
Enya....Only Time
Listen to Enya here....
(there is an advert of about 30 seconds...first before the music starts...)
Enya is an Irish artist...read more hereabout her.
(there is an advert of about 30 seconds...first before the music starts...)
Enya is an Irish artist...read more hereabout her.
4 Jul 2007
Radio Stations
South African Radio Stations, follow this link if you are interested. It is Steve Hofmeyr's Blog, one of our BEST artists in SA. Belgium artist, Dana Winner, has performed with him in SA a few years ago in Sun City. His blog is mainly Afrikaans, because Steve is a fighter for Afrikaans (and a BIG one for our country), but you will find a lot of English pages/bits too. He is a singer/writer/poet/actor -- very talented and also, lately started to negotiate with Thabo Mbeki about Afrikaans and the change of Street names in our country. Very silly to try "change" history to suit you, hey! They change street names, city names, airport names, just show you what kind of people are in charge of the country....19 Jun 2007
De la Rey
De la Rey song (in English)
On a mountain in the night
We lie in the dark and wait
In the mud and the blood
As rain and grain bag cling to me
And my house and my farm were
Burnt to the ground so they could capture us
But those flames and those fires now
Burn deep, deep within me.
[CHORUS]
De la Rey, De la Rey can you come and lead the Boers?
De la Rey, De la Rey
General, General
we will fall around you as one
General De la Rey.
The Khakis that laugh
A handful of us against a massive force
With our backs to the cliffs of the mountains
They think it's over for us
But the heart of a farmer is deeper
And wider, they will come to see
On a horse he comes, the Lion of West Transvaal.
[CHORUS]
Because my wife and my child are in a camp dying,
And the Khakis are walking over a nation that will rise again.
[CHORUS]
http://thewwp.blogspot.com/2007/02/afrikaans-pop-song-de-la-rey-causes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koos_de_la_Rey
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