... is one of the greatest bands these days. Not many artists nowadays combine modern music with the classical one (they play "modern music"-heavy metal on cellos).
When speaking of making a classical music into modern one - or at least interesting to listen to - we could mention Venessa Mae, Maksim Mrvica, Apocalyptica and many others.
How they sound and if you like them-decide for yourself! Enjoy listening!
.. are usually the sounds that are coming out of your mouths when you're singing to a music (if you don't know the lyrics or don't want to drown away a singer's voice on the radio or because of some other reasons). Everyboy likes a different type of music, which is normal and natural. What would be the world like if we all listened just to one genre of music. But ...
I like listening to a good music (yes-this usage of term is quite delicate and one can't define what is good on what is not just on the basis of his taste of music-that is true, but you must agree with me that not every music is good to ears and there are loads of people who think just like me-at least i hope so) no matter what genre it is. I mind about the quality of it - how does it sound when it's performed and if it's made out of heart and with a soul of an artist. In vocal music lyrics matter, so does the melody, in instrumental the melody dominates, so it has to be that much precise and melodical-good to listen to it.
Unfortunately, nowadays is everything, even music, so computorised and manufactured. Everybody wants to be a musician, so that's why there's so much of bad music we can listen to. I see it like that: loads of bands, individuals etc. want to be succesfull and that's the reason they feel they wanna do it. Yes, it is OK to like and feel music-that's natural even from the times of ice age. It makes you feel better when you're listening to it and it makes you whole and you can be able to perform it all-right, but that doesnt make you a musician. In here lies the core of the problem (of the immense number of so called musicians, bands ...).
Nowadays, again-unfortunately-, being a true artist isn't valued that much as it has been before. Look back at "the old ages", when musicians were praised and were high situated, because people thought of musicians as important to society. Even then they knew how important music is. Chinese even thought that the universe will crash if instruments weren't tuned and that the society will fall apart if the music won't be performed in a heathy way for everybody's soul and good wealth. And when you're listening to the "old" music, you can really feel it, you can feel the energy of it.
The quality and the sense of a good melody, thought of importance of music is slowly fading away (or returning back-don't know). If we look at the pop culture (and others) that developed during last decade, we can notice that the meaning of a good lyrics and melodies die out. Now it's only important that you don't complicate the words too much, even the melody, so that people can remember it by heart the first time they hear it. It doesn't have to mean anything-you can sing about your visit to a toilet and back to bed and everybody will like it! It's easy as that! Or even less-you can just pick up one or two words and sing it all the time, or make it even easier-scream it! In that case you don't even need to have a melody-you just pick up at least three chords on a guitar and smash on the drums as hard as you can so nobody will hear the meaning of your screams, which don't have any meaning at all. (I must say i'm not offending anyone here, just stating what you could do. Because from time to time it feels good to listen to screams like that-for a relaxation when you're nervous, angry or whatsoever reason there is. )
What music really is? Is music bird singing, car noise, water streaming, wind blowing, baby crying etc.? No! Why not you ask!? Because music is an act of a person's will-when you do it consciously, on purpouse you could say. Music is a creation, it's what a human being makes it by him/herself. More precisely, music is a timely settled sequence of strengthened or at least quite defined tones.
And when performing music, a true artist will put all his/her feelings and being in it so it will give out a special energy you will feel it and will make you feel great when listening to it-so it's not just about the words and the melody, it's also about performance.
And for the conclusion of my thoughts:
Everybody can be a manufacturer, but not everyone can be a true artist (musician).
I'm finally posting a translation of my previous blog-The story. Here it is! Enjoy! Hope you like it
There lived a girl who was blind. She hated herself because of it. She hated everbody around her, even her boyfriend who loved her enormously and has always supported her and "stood there" by her side for comfort.
She said to him that she is going to marry him, but only if she could see the world around her only for a moment or so.
One day she got her chance. She got a pair of new eyes from an anonymous donator. She got a chance to see a world around her-even her boyfriend. He asked her: " Now, when you can see-will you marry me?" At a sight of him she got shocked because she saw that he was blind too. She refused his proposal and left him.
He went away in tears and with a sorrow in his heart, sad about what she just did. After a while he sent her a letter that said: "THE ONLY THING I ASK OF YOU IS THAT YOU TAKE GOOD CARE FOR MY EYES."
This story is an example of how can people change when their status is changed. Not loads of people remember what was life before and don't foget of the ones that stood at their side when they were in an unpleasant situations. Our lives change from day to day-one day we're going to school and another we're at work, we move to another place etc.-time flyes by and so do our lives. We should be thankfull for every person that ever got in to our life and fulfiled it. We should never forget them and what they did for us and we should let them know that we think like that, because they can't read our minds!
So now i'm taking chance to thank everybody that ever made me feel good and happy.
Thank you everybody!
Thank you, Lewis
Večina arij govori o izgubljeni, nedosegljivi ljubezni, mukah, ki jih trpimo ko ljubimo itd. itd. To bi lahko raztegnila na dolgo in široko, pa ne bom. Upam, da si si ustvaril sliko. Pa ne verjameš? Ha! Če želiš, ti lahko pošljem partiture … So besedila tako pocukrana, da kar ne moreš verjeti, da so lahko tako osladna dokler ne vidiš ta fenomen na svoje oči. Tudi dandanes veliko izvajalcev piše o ljubezni. Ljubezen je bila in bo vedno ostala predmet “razprave” med glasbeniki, literati in med mnogimi drugimi. Je nekaj kar nas povezuje in drži pokonci, brez katere ne moremo “živeti” in ki nas obdaja s svojo toploto. Torej je nekaj kar ne moremo kar tako obiti in ne prejeti vsaj enkrat v življenju. Je največje darilo, ki ga lahko podarimo drugi osebi. Človek bi si mislil, da bi do sedaj ljudem že zmanjkalo besedil, besed in idej o ljubezni-kaj napisati-kakšno pesem. Zaradi svojih lastnosti je ljubezen zatorej v svojem centru ista vsem ljudem a jo vsak nato lahko interpretira na svoj način. Toliko kot je ljudi (vsi smo si različni), toliko je občutij in predstav o ljubezni. Namesto sto ljudi, sto čudi bi lahko rekli: sto ljudi, sto “ljubezni”. Jah, najsi bo besedilo v pesmi še tako osladno (to je še dandanes) so lahko melodije toliko lepše, da nas pritegnejo k poslušanju (ali obratno). Le-ta torej žene skladatelje k tem, da pišejo kar čutijo ko pomislijo na ljubezen. Kakšna se bo zdela ta glasba drugim je čisto odvisno od človeka samega. Nekaterim bo všeč, spet nekaterim ne.
Pa dosti o ljubezni! O tem bi lahko napisala še kakšno besedo ali več … Če se ti utrne kakšna misel o ljubezni, jo lahko pripišeš zraven in dopolniš moj odstavek! Vsaka beseda je dobrodošla, da bi bolje razumeli ta fenomen ;)
Torej … Arija kraljice noči. V glasbenem svetu je toliko lepih in čudovitih del, a ta je eden od tistih, ki me najbolj fascinira. Sicer ne govori o ljubezni, a bolj proti njej. Kraljica noči se razburja nad svojo hčerjo Pamino in jo nagovarja naj ubije za svojo mati zlobnega Sarastra (več si lahko prebereš v kakšni razlagi na internetu, v Groove dictionary.com, v raznih učbenikih, v Sivčevi knjigi Operne zgodbe …). Kar me pri tej ariji facinira je, da Mozart v njej zaobjame kraljičino histerijo, razburjenost skozi mnoge kolorature, velike skoke, ki jih mora pevka peti v visokih legah (priti mora do f3), hitrostjo izvajanja le-teh itd. V glavnem, kdor hoče odpeti to arijo, mora biti kondicijsko (pevsko) zelo dobro pripravljen, imeti zelo dobro tehniko in biti odličen pevec (oziroma pevka!!), ki mora znati vlogo med drugim tudi dobro interpretirati. Pa da se prepričaš o tem da ni lahko in kako prefinjeno znajo nekatere pevke to odpeti, si poglej spodnja dva linka:
Ta izveda pa prikazuje kako lahko pevka izvede arijo "histerično"-tako da z izvedbo zaobjame lik. Ti dve izvedbi sta mi všeč, saj pevki resnično pokažeta pravi karakter kraljice:
Ta posnetek me je pa popolnoma očaral, saj ta mali fant poje arijo, ki jo mnoge pevke ne morejo … Vsaka mu čast! Malo je sicer hecen, ker je oblečen v avstrijsko narodno nošo (naj omenim, da bi se morale pri nas tudi več nositi!!) in poje arijo, ki je drugače namenjena kolaturnim sopranistkam!
Pa še za tiste, ki niste vedeli … Dunajske dečke je ustanovil Slovenec Jurij Sladkonja v 16. stol. na Dunaju. Tako da smo lahko ponosni-Slovenci za mnoge stvari sploh ne “vemo” kaj vse smo imeli, ker so nam ogromno odvzeli ali pa se stvari sploh ne omenjajo. Naj omenim, da je Bethoveen podaril naši filharmoniji prepis njegove 6. simfonije, mi pa smo jo prodali naprej. Ali pa, da je Ljubljanska matica zavrnila F. Schuberta, da bi učil pri nas, ker ni imel dovolj izobrazbe-sedaj pa poglej kako znan je! Ok, bom o tem “filozofirala” raje kdaj drugič …
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The translation comes soon!
*Živela je punca, ki je bila slepa. Zaradi tega se je močno sovražila.
Sovražila je vse okoli sebe, tudi svojega fanta, ki jo je imel
neizmerno rad in jo ljubil, ter ji vedno stal ob strani.
Dejala je, da se bo poročila z njim, vendar le, če bo lahko le za
trenutek videla svet okoli sebe.
Nekega dne je dobila možnost. Dobila je par novih oči nekega
donatorja. Dobila je možnost videti svet okoli sebe. Tudi svojega
fanta. Le ta jo je vprašal: »Sedaj, ko lahko vidiš svet, se boš
poročila z mano?« Ob pogledu na njega je bila šokirana, saj je videla,
da je tudi on slep. Njegovo snubitev je zavrnila in ga zapustila.
Odšel je ves objokan. Čez nekaj časa ji je poslal pismo, v katerem je
pisalo: »ŽELIM LE, DA PAZIŠ NA MOJE OČI«.
To je konkreten primer, kako se ljudje spremenimo, ko se spremeni naš
status. Le redki so tisti, ki se spominjajo, kakšno je bilo življenje
prej, in ne pozabijo na tiste, ki so jim vedno stali ob strani ob še
tako neprijetnih situacijah.*
A story Translated into English by: crazydiamond
finally-the translation!
As I've posted before list of my fav. writers, I'm posting on this blog some of the songs I most like from my Top1 fav writer-Roald Dahl. I love his work so much. He's creative, innovative, humorous-love his sense of humor, you'll see once you read his poems!-maybe it's on a skirt of a "black humour", but it's brilliant anyway. So, Dahl wasn't just a fine writer, a children's writer, but also a poet-a gifted comic poet. Well, check it up yourself.
(Because you can find out more about his life and work on Wikipedia and other sources, I'm not going to post his biography here.)
Unfortunatelly I can't copy-paste these wonderfull songs on this blog, but you can check out the links I'm posting under the headings. On this site you can also listen to an author reading his poems!
(Dahl added few lines that had never been published-before The Roald Dahl Treasury book. So, i'm posting these lines here:)
*Did any of you ever meet
A lady called Miss Violet Treat?
She lived in Rigby Hall, so grand,
With lots of servants, lots of land.
Oh, she was rich and she was fine
With cars galore and heaps of wine!
Now with the rich there is a rule,
They always build a simming pool.
They also like (don't ask me why)
To go into the shops and buy
Most curious and expensive pets,
Like chimpanzees and marmosets.
Miss Treat did all of this and more.
She dug up all the library floor
And built a pool of gold and green,
No finer pool was ever seen.
Into this pool she put (don't smile)
A tame and friendly crocodile,
And every day she used to swim
With Crocky-Wock and play with him ...
OK. These are just a few of the songs I like. If you want an advice what to read and what is the best of Dahl, just ask;)
Here is a top list of my best writers:
1. Roald Dahl
2. Jules Verne
3. Lojze Kovacic
4. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5. Miha Mazzini
6. Richard Bach
7. Mario Puzo
8. J. K. Rowling
9. Meg Cabot
10. Lorna Hill
11. O. Wilde
12. F. Dostoyevsky
13. C. S. Lewis
14. A. Lindgren
(and many many more!)
And a list of my favourite poets/authors:
1. W. Shakespeare
2. F. Preseren
3. T. Pavcek
4. S. Kosovel
5. V. Wolf
6. G. Boccaccio
7. F. Petrarca
8. D. Zajc
9. S. Makarovic
10. G. Leopardi
11. R. Burns
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