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It'd be interesting to know the origin of the music, as it certainly is one of those haunting tunes...........like Land of Hope & Glory, the Horst Wessell Song, America the Beautiful, not to leave out Faith of Our Fathers, Silent Night & the Marseilleise (sp), it has the ability to make the hair stand up on the back of the neck in awe, or horror depending.
Like all of the above though, the notion of having it as wallpaper music doesn't appeal.
Without the flickering torches(so to speak) & the massed voices belting it out, the instrumental version is only an irritating reminder of past delusion for me.
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I don't know how that could lure anyone anywhere these days. It just irritates me. I would much prefer to listen to some Gregorian chant - or even the Beach Boys! But Indian music just doesn't do it for me anymore.
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Ravi Shankar with Ali AKbhar Khan, for example.
Which I mention to point out that Good Indian Music is one area that traverses, with ease and much mutual respect, the chasm between two widely different and often incompatible religions.
That sounded like a jangling extended dischord, barely even recognisable as arti, a now repulsive tune anyway.
Sorry, wrong side of bed.
Best wishes Annie
Saph.
Modified by Lp at Wed, Feb 07, 2007, 06:26:19
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And it was stupid of me to equate arti with all Indian music of course, especially such a bad version of arti. Thank you for pulling me up on that one Saph!
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I eventually, recently, more to get my mind back into working, did a music degree. I then found out that in the years (60's) I had been going off to India, Ravi Shankar had been teaching there at my college and played often in the open air on campus.
Modified by Lp at Wed, Feb 07, 2007, 16:22:47
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Well, I do tend to generalize a lot, so I needed to hear that there is good Indian music too. I like piano and some flutes, clarinet etc. I only like violin if it is with an orchestra and really good. I am not much into string music on its own. I say that then I remember that I like the way Harpo Marx plays the harp and Steve Martin plays the banjo. So anyway, I am pretty limited in the particular about the music I like, and I shouldn't judge a whole genre on one non-representative sample! Sorry you missed Shankar - we all missed a lot of things while following the boy god.
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After decades, I still haven't found violin playing to top Stefan Grappelli playing with Django Reinhardt.
I missed John Martin's residence there also, during that time.
Modified by Lp at Thu, Feb 08, 2007, 02:18:48
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He's a fab banjo player,which is what he started out as.He got into comedy because the audience fell about laughing when he did the intros to his numbers.I think the banjo is still what he loves the best.I saw a documentary about him and his many talents on TV and at the end he played the programme out ,alone on the steps to his house ,picking a mean banjo.((((( Steve Martin ))))) My brother,a mean banjo player himself, had Steve Martins live banjo/comedy records before he was famous as an actor. Hilarious monologues in between the numbers.
Modified by lexy at Thu, Feb 08, 2007, 06:20:50
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