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Ok this composer is AMAZING his output is prodigious his work gets used in many different places (from movies to casual gamez to videos to concerts to talk shows to podcastz...) and he does so many different...genres are they called in music?
Kevin Macleod of Incompetech.com makes available royalty free creative commons licensed music
Here is a youtube curation
Kevin MacLeod Music - YouTube

Great if ya needs music for.that event or game or video
Enjoy!
 
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Too quiet in here. Time to queue up some tunes:

Amanda McBroom's composition The Rose was a huge hit for Bette Midler from her movie of the same title. And I've been in love with it ever since I heard Bette's version for the first time. Here, Hound + Fox tackles it with excellent results.


Drummer Joel Cassady of Walk Off The Earth may not get a much public spotlight as bandmates Gianni and Sarah, but he's an excellent drummer. Here, he gives a master class on banging the skins.


WOTE is very like Lake Side Dive in that all members are incredibly talented musicians and contribute to the songwriting and sound pretty much equally.

Speaking of WOTE, here's Sarah Blackwood with her friends the singing duo Zaya. It's been a while since they teamed up and I almost wish Sarah would do an album with them sometime (when WOTE is on a break, of course). In fact, she hints at more collaborations with them to come in the description.


And, finally, since we were discussing babies in another thread recently, Evynne Hollens and 2 week-old Sailor Hollens with the Rodgers & Hart standard, My Funny Valentine. Beautifully captures both the oddity and beauty of a baby's looks.

 
One of my favorite musicals of all time has to be Little Shop of Horrors. I used to have a cassette of the original off-Broadway stage cast and saw the movie version directed by Frank Oz multiple times. Inspired by a Roger Corman B-movie with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman (in the period before they started working for Disney). It's a bit warped as musicals go (the movie less so than the stage version) but there's some fantastic songs.

Ellen Greene was associated with the show almost from the beginning. She first played Audrey, the love interest for downtrodden flower shop worker Seymour, in the original cast and then reprised the part for the movie. It's hard for me as a fan of the show to picture anyone else as Audrey. I have no idea of the date on this, but it's a live performance of songs from the show by Ellen and she's in fine form.


One of the show's biggest production numbers is "Skid Row", which basically sets the scene. This is the performance from the movie. Watching it again, I realize I had completely forgotten that Moranis actually was a passable singer, unlike some non-musical actors who take roles in musicals (*cough* Pierce Brosnan *cough*).

 
BTW, the original Corman film is quite entertaining in its own right and widely available since it had multiple video releases, some colorized and some in the original black & white. As was typical for Corman in the sixties, it was made on the cheap ($28,000) and on the fly (in 2 days using sets from another Corman film) but that just adds to its charm for those of us who are B-movie fans. It also includes an early appearance on screen of a young actor by the name of Jack Nicholson (a brief appearance as a dental patient, a role played by Bill Murray in the musical).
 
I kind of thought the whole flash mobs thing was dead, but there are still some videos of them popping up. This one is a beautiful performance of "The Sound of Silence" by a men's choir, with the arrangement based on the Disturbed cover (which I know I've posted in at least one music thread on WC2) rather than the Simon & Garfunkel original. It's very powerful and works up to its climax beautifully as various musicians join them in the hall. Alas, the description is in German so I don't know what choir it is or where it happened. @Mrs.Anteater , can you read it (I think you're the only one on here who speaks it)? If you start the video, then click on the word "Youtube" on the bottom, it will take you to the video's page.

 
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I kind of thought the whole flash mobs thing was dead, but there are still some videos of them popping up. This one is a beautiful performance of "The Sound of Silence" by a men's choir, with the arrangement based on the Disturbed cover (which I know I've posted in at least one music thread on WC2) rather than the Simon & Garfunkel original. It's very powerful and works up to its climax beautifully as various musicians join them in the hall. Alas, the description is in German so I don't know what choir it is or where it happened. @Mrs.Anteater , can you read it (I think you're the only one on here who speaks it)? If you start the video, then click on the word "Youtube" on the bottom, it will take you to the video's page.

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Oh, it happened in a small town called Mayem and the singers was a choir called Pochorn, which I googled, but it doesn’t seem to be a place, so it must be a name, with their choir director. No places I ever heard of. The situation is a ”Burgfest”- a theater or music event happening in a castle ( of which Germany has lots). Here the place:
Mayen - Wikipedia
 
I have been following the Angel City Chorale for a couple years and have posted them on here before. However, until recently I missed that they were on America's Got Talent this past season. They are a wonderful pop choir based in LA. From the show, here they are with "This Is Me" from the movie musical The Greatest Showman.

 
Mendalla said:
I kind of thought the whole flash mobs thing was dead, but there are still some videos of them popping up. This one is a beautiful performance of "The Sound of Silence" by a men's choir, with the arrangement based on the Disturbed cover (which I know I've posted in at least one music thread on WC2) rather than the Simon & Garfunkel original. It's very powerful and works up to its climax beautifully as various musicians join them in the hall. Alas, the description is in German so I don't know what choir it is or where it happened. @Mrs.Anteater , can you read it (I think you're the only one on here who speaks it)? If you start the video, then click on the word "Youtube" on the bottom, it will take you to the video's page.

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Why does that song make almost everyone cry?
 
Mendalla said:
I have been following the Angel City Chorale for a couple years and have posted them on here before. However, until recently I missed that they were on America's Got Talent this past season. They are a wonderful pop choir based in LA. From the show, here they are with "This Is Me" from the movie musical The Greatest Showman.

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Whoever was responsible for the choreography there is a genius!
 
BetteTheRed said:
Why does that song make almost everyone cry?
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Because Simon & Garfunkel knocked it out of the park with that one? Easily one of the best songs of the post-WWII era of any genre. Deep lyrics, wonderful tune. Disturbed mined the emotional depths a bit more than they did, but that just gives it a bit more power at the expense of some of the nuance. Not a bad trade-off in this case. Gets me a bit tear-y sometimes, too, when it's done right.
 
A' rose is like that ... as the thorn gives a rise ... love is a virtual pain when you see what you are required to support ...

Isn't that uplifting to those without hesitation towards responsibility to a screw up when someone has their R' Sup?

Can be considered a blossoming Bottom ND ...

Forget it folks ... I've already been screwed about by powers of ergo ... religiously!

Then there are codes to follow in the co-dead ... con ... sequential comings and goings ... in the unconscious state ... natural nothings to hear about ...
 
So, who woulda thunk that one of the funniest comedians of the seventies and eighties would have a second career as a bluegrass musician? Here is Steve Martin on banjo and vocals with his band the Steep Canyon Rangers and guest Edie Brickell.

 
More from the same concert. I have never understood why Brickell didn't have much chart action after her initial success with the New Bohemians. Lovely voice and very talented. This song won her and Martin a Grammy.

 
So, I haven't heard much about Sarah McLachlan recently. However, this week, Josh Groban released a duet with her from his new album. And I discovered from the comments that it was a actually a song they had been doing together live for a couple years, going back to 2016 when she opened for him. It's actually a cover of a song by Irish rockers Snow Patrol but these two sing it beautifully together.

Here they are doing it live from 2016:


From the same concert, Josh joins Sarah on one of her hits:


The Wiki article on Sarah indicates a new album is in progress so hopefully we'll be hearing more from her soon.
 
BTW, anyone else noticed how many female singer-songwriters there are named Sarah or Sara? Sarah Mclachlan, Sarah Slean, Sarah Blackwood (of Walk off the Earth), Sara Bareilles, Sarah Harmer. Given that most of them were born in the seventies and the two who weren't were in 1968 (McLachlan) and 1980 (Blackwood) I wonder if Sarah was just common in and around the seventies.
 
I've mentioned NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts before. This is one is one of the best that I have seen. It's Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. Stay for the encore.

 
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