askland on January 26th, 2010

Compare the two conducting and performance styles for Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
Top video is concluding part two of Tchaikovsky’s famous 1812 Overture performed by the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder at the Royal Albert Hall during the Nations Favourite Prom 2004
Bottom video is the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.

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In this interview with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust survivor Rabbi Gerd Jacob (Zwienicki) Wiener shares his memories of Kristallnacht, the November 1938 pogroms.
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askland on January 13th, 2010

A young man with no disabilities and many abilities! This should inspire most people to be thankful for what we’re given and to realize most of our limitations are decided by ourselves. And I think his Claire De Lune sounds pretty good!
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askland on September 23rd, 2009

Penn & Teller talk about how the only way they feel world peace is to be achieved. From the Penn and Teller show “Bullshit”.
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askland on September 23rd, 2009

The Creationism segment from Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit” show.
Includes footage of Duane Gish from the Insitute of Creation Research and also the Cobb County school board in their voting process to include creationism as part of the school science curriculum.
One of the other websites I run is a bible discussion website. The Creation vs. Evolution [...]

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askland on September 20th, 2009

A friend told me about the Bach improvisations by Bobby McFerrin. Here’s one of them.

And here’s McFerrin doing the Gound/Bach Ave Maria.
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askland on September 15th, 2009

Remix and auto-tune of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
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askland on June 22nd, 2009

Read more info on Buck Owens at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Owens
I was reading on that link about Buck Owens, the Bakersfield Sound, the death of his guitar wingman Don Rich, and the revival of his career with Dwight Yoakum. There are some great videos of Buck Owens and Don Rich on YouTube. Here’s a couple videos I enjoyed with [...]

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askland on May 12th, 2009

Check this out: A clip from the Beverly Hillbillies featuring Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flintstone, yabbadabbadoo! You’ll be watching a real person, but swear it’s Fred!
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askland on April 16th, 2009

47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
Embedding for most of the videos has been disabled, probably because of the high traffic, but you can watch a video clip of her on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRmM1J1sfg
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askland on April 9th, 2009

Q was visited by country-pop band The Boxmasters. The Boxmasters’s biggest claim to fame is that their singer is Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton. If you were listening, you heard what could best be described as a ’showdown at the Q corral’ when Mr. Thornton took offense to our mention of his cinematic accomplishments.
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Cirque Du Soleil ZED musicians at the Ginza Apple store in Tokyo. The bass player, now with ZED, is the former bassist for the Mystere show in Las Vegas.
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askland on March 14th, 2009

This song about one side lover and cannot tell him that she love him but her heart speak different. Thai music video — parn ( pak yang jai yang ).

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askland on February 27th, 2009

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askland on February 19th, 2009

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askland on January 20th, 2009

Just got back from two weeks in Vietnam and Thailand. In Vietnam went to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and to the coast in Vung Tao. In Thailand started in Bangkok and went down the coast to Se Racha, Pattaya and Koh Samed.
The island of Koh Samed (Ko Samet, Ko Sahmet) was my favorite. I’m [...]

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askland on January 20th, 2009

Oh man, I feel bad for the guy who sang the Star Spangled Banner at the opening of the Obama inauguration and messed up the last entrance on the word “brave”. I thought a couple entrances before that seemed a bit tentative, but then thought no, that was just my imagination — they must practice [...]

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askland on December 18th, 2008

A large group of us from Cirque Du Soleil’s ZAIA show went to see the Chime Long International Circus in Guangzhou, China. It was a fantastic show. The Chime Long circus is more of a traditional circus that includes animal acts. Music for the show is pre-recorded — no live band.
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askland on December 10th, 2008

Two video recordings of a Badinerie by JS Bach. I have heard several absolutely horrible renditions on YouTube — but I like both of these. My favorite of these two is the first on top. The musicians take a little more chance with the tempo and interpretation — and to my ears it has a [...]

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askland on December 9th, 2008

Stephen Sondheim, Composer/Lyricist
James Lapine, Librettist/Director
Sondheim says you can not make an audience like something, but they have to understand the intention. Preview performances focused on making things clear to the audience.
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