Conga line! Happy birthday, dear friend Jon!
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Feb 20, 2007 7:41:43 am PST #5246 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
tina f. - Feb 20, 2007 8:57:04 am PST #5247 of 10003
Feliz Cumpleaños, Snr. Jon.
joe boucher - Feb 20, 2007 9:09:36 am PST #5248 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Woooeewoowooeeoo, Woooeewoowooeeoo, WoooeewoowooEEOOOHOOOH!!, Woooeewoowooeeoo!
My singing is only slightly better than my theremin playing (and that only by default), so in case it wasn't recognizable that was Happy Birthday.
sumi - Feb 20, 2007 9:14:32 am PST #5249 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday jon!
lisah - Feb 20, 2007 9:15:32 am PST #5250 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Happy Birthday, Jon!!!
sj - Feb 20, 2007 10:25:31 am PST #5251 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Birthday, Jon!!!
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2007 11:12:53 am PST #5252 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. I always thought that you can't trust those classical musicians....
The recordings of a British concert pianist who found fame in the last years of her life have been exposed as hoaxes - by Apple's iTunes music player.
Joyce Hatto died in June 2006, having become a cause célèbre with fans of classical piano in the last years of her life. A series of recordings showed her masterful command of a wide range of composers including Liszt, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dukas and more.
Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt's 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
iTunes had stumbled on a hoax. To identify albums it calculates a 'discid' from the duration of the tracks and then connects to the Compact Disc Database online. The Gramophone critic tried another disc - Hatto playing Rachmaninov - and again iTunes identified it as belonging to someone else. Again, the named recording - by Yefim Bronfman - sounded no different.
Gramophone decided to go to expert audio company Pristine Audio. Their detailed webpage on the Hatto case shows what they found, and lets you listen to the evidence. Examinations of the waveforms of Hatto recordings confirmed what iTunes had suggested. Many are direct copies of other pianist's work - some are tweaked versions where a recording has simply been slowed down.
Analysis, with extra added bonus Science: [link] Also, with stuff to listen to so you can see hear for yourself....
DXMachina - Feb 20, 2007 11:54:37 am PST #5253 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
This sort of makes Hatto the Milli Vanilli of classical music, doesn't it?
tommyrot - Feb 20, 2007 12:07:31 pm PST #5254 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This sort of makes Hatto the Milli Vanilli of classical music, doesn't it?
Yeah. Except at least the session musicians/singers for Milli Vanilli got some payment. This is outright theft.
Hayden - Feb 20, 2007 12:28:54 pm PST #5255 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
What makes it amazing that Hatto was married to the label owner and dying while all of these recordings were coming out. The hoax was also undone by accident, by someone who was basically a defender of her status as an unknown treasure, and the label owner is still claiming that everything can be explained away. This is a lot more complex than Milli Vanilli.