Schooby Dooby Doo!

[Lateralthinking1]

By the way that version of Iko Iko is shockingly bad in my opinion ...I'll try & find a version that captures the true street weirdness of it later...isn't Dr John on Spot doing it?

I've never been very keen on the song and just picked that version out because it is (sort of) zydeco. Talking of unusual Greek versions of Shakespeare, there was an item on "The Strand" yesterday about Pericles. I was doing the washing up but the choral music sounded good to me. A bit like the Corsicans or something. Don't know the composer. Possibly Dimosthenis Grivas.

[Globaltruth]

I've never been very keen on the song and just picked that version out because it is (sort of) zydeco. Talking of unusual Greek versions of Shakespeare, there was an item on "The Strand" yesterday about Pericles. I was doing the washing up but the choral music sounded good to me. A bit like the Corsicans or something. Don't know the composer. Possibly Dimosthenis Grivas.

Sounds like a good fit to me...bound to be Spotified

[Globaltruth]

I'm trying to persuade myself that because Schubert is German, it really counts as World Music.

I can't & it doesn't

....if only we had some of Mr Edison's anti-gravitational underclothing we could fly to another place & listen to something else:

[johncorrigan]

....if only we had some of Mr Edison's anti-gravitational underclothing we could fly to another place & listen to something else:

I nipped over to 90.5 on that FM dial in the car this morning wondering if they were still schoobin' it or if they had decided to have a WM interlude in the proceedings. Raffa was on with Tom Service and they were a mighty excited pair - seems I can go watch the Schubert Lab on the website where they'll explain something about key change (where did I put that shampoo?) - anyway they were getting right fired up about this Schubert quartet - apparently he goes into areas of despair that not even Mahler goes to - blimey! - something to do with the syphilis it seems - anyway they went on about this amazing thing ( I was shouting at the radio, 'just play the blinkin' tune!') so I thought I better hang about and listen - so I did.....for a wee while...but not too long - I like Raffa, but I think he and his R3 cronies have immersed themselves a bit too long with Schubbie. Time to come up for air, guys!

Personally I enjoyed Gillian Hills more! Still time to have a shoob on spotty!

http://open.spotify.com/user/jcorrigan1452/playlist/7x2wkjWKMV2sqG754Ad6GK

[boatmanbird]

Maybe a 4 and a half min video of Mary Hampton doing Schubert for R3 would please people here more than most of the fare:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase/collections/p00b9xn8#/clips/p00qj0mr/in/collection/p00b9xn8

Mary Hampton (vocals and accordion), Alistair Strachan (drums - bodhran and floor tom - and sampler) and Jo Burke (hardanger fiddle, normal fiddle and vocals) perform Shubert's D 911 - 'Der Leiermann'.

transl: The Lyre-man (?)

[Globaltruth]

Maybe a 4 and a half min video of Mary Hampton doing Schubert for R3 would please people here more than most of the fare:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase/collections/p00b9xn8#/clips/p00qj0mr/in/collection/p00b9xn8

transl: The Lyre-man (?)

A cool & welcome post BMB, you should swing by more often...

[johncorrigan]

[QUOTE=boatmanbird;145808]Maybe a 4 and a half min video of Mary Hampton doing Schubert for R3 would please people here more than most of the fare:
Thanks boatmanbird - most enjoyable piece - love that hardanger fiddle - sounded quite threatening in a storm approaching kind of way.

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, thanks boatmanbird and thanks to Global for Uakti. An interesting Philip Glass link.