Itzhak Perlman plays Klezmer

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Do you know what klezmer is?
Perlman calls it the soul of Jewish society.

Well, give it a listen!

Man, can that guy play the violin!

What kind of music do you guys like to listen to? I mean something that not everyone knows...

If people sing in English, do you make an effort to understand the lyrics?

Here's a post a wrote a while back  about a cool site for working with lyrics that is a lot of fun. Give it a try!

http://bestofcyberopps.blogspot.co.at/2011/03/lyrics-training.html

Are you playing the piano?

I know it has been quite a while since my last post but things were, have been, and still are pretty busy at the uni. But if you're gonna have a blog, you gotta post, right?

So I'd like to kick off the season so to speak with something that has more to do with artistic expression than language and language learning, although many people say that music is the universal language.

http://www.thevirtualpiano.com/

It's so cool I have to be careful not to waste my entire Friday playing around with it. Just turn up your speakers and start making music. For those of you who had piano lessons at some point, you can jump right and start playing. Others can simply listen to their inner ear and express the music that is in there waiting to get out.

Austria is famous around the world as a Music Nation (probably not because of DJ Ötzi ...), so go ahead and start making music!

And when you are good and relaxed, pick up an English book or go to a website and read or listen to some English!

Have a great semester!

Frank

Men with Banjos Who Know How to Use Them

Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs, along with some other guys who know what to do with a banjo.




The song is a bluegrass classic called Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Here's a version featuring other instruments too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw

And another classic tune called "Earl's Breakdown" played first by some hillbilly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reT_pg5s10s&feature=related


...and then by Jose Feliciano (on the guitar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ydy_EakGfY&feature=related

Classic Dylan

Dylan.
aka Robert Zimmerman...which all you trivia buffs already knew of course...

This man made some really good music.
Check out this cool way to send your friend a message ,in a rather unique way, with Bob d.'s help...

Musicovery

Nice site which lets you pick the music that matches your mood.

The brilliance of Musicovery is in its ability to create free playlists for users based on a mixture of factors: mood (you can choose among “dark,” “energetic,” “positive,” and “calm”), era, tempo, genre.

Most of the songs I saw and heard here are in English, but I also saw Spanish and French and Arabic too!, so you can always say you're practicing your listening comprehension...!

You can definitely discover some new music, hence...

MUSICOVERY

We like!!