Friday afternoon I watched my newly acquired Kino Restored Deluxe Edition DVD of F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh. I viewed the restored German version, which includes the original 1924 music score by Giuseppe Becce, performed by the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra. (A second disc houses the unrestored 'export' version with a special written orchestra score by Timothy Brock.) I had not seen the film before, except in excerpt. I enjoyed it. Even its tacked on 'happy' ending, though that came close to overstaying its welcome.
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Massenet's Le Cid on You Tube with Placido Domingo as Le Cid and with English subtitles."Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Sahara of musical trash."
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Wonderful and rare 1962 interview with the remarkably gifted and beautiful pianist Harriet Cohen who was friends with all the great musicians and writers and influential of her day - Einstein, Casals, Manuel de Falla, Sibelius, Elgar, Picasso, Bax, Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw, D.H.Lawrence - she knew them all.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVSqSIMujW8[/YOUTUBE]'Man know thyself'Comment
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For those who didn't see the it first time around here is the excellent BBC series 'Great Composers' kicking off with Bach.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD-eSW69DvI[/YOUTUBE]'Man know thyself'Comment
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