Thank you MPLji.. as you must have noticed this is a COLLABORATIVE effort.. I hope other melodians will also join in presenting their fave. vdos songs etc which are slightly off track to enrich our musical knowledge ..
Sentyji LOLOL - are the news agencies keeping track of our lil topic ...
The last 2 days news in the Times of India .. deja vu.. or what..coz i sure did'nt copy from them ..
47-yr-old virgin now an online singing starLondon: A frumpy 47-year-old Scottish charity worker who has never had a boyfriend has become an unlikely YouTube sensation, after her stunning weekend musical debut on a British television talent show.
By Wednesday the clip of Susan Boyle — whose dowdy appearance drew sniggers when she walked on stage on ITV’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, saying she dreamed of emulating West End star Elaine Page — had been viewed 5.7 million times.
When she began to sing, the panel of three judges led by music guru Simon Cowell was visibly shocked, and the audience in Glasgow rose to its feet, as her voiced soared through ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ from ‘Les Miserables’. “Without a doubt that was the biggest surprise I have had in three years of this show,” said judge Piers Morgan, admitting that before her performance “everyone was laughing at you.”
“No-one is laughing now. That was stunning.” he added.
Boyle, from West Lothian, who says she has never been on a date or been kissed, now is the favourite to win the show — drawing comparisons with Paul Potts, an opera-singing mobile phone salesman who won in 2007. Potts He wowed audiences with his rendition of the aria ‘Nessun Dorma’ and went on to have number-one albums in 15 countries. AGENCIES
YouTube symphony makes live debutNew York: Even before they played their first note together, they were listed as one of the world’s most inspiring orchestras.
Part publicity stunt by its producers, part vanity trip by its participants, part opportunity to attract a younger crowd to classical music, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra made its much anticipated debut on Wednesday night at the Carnegie Hall in New York. In the four months since the project was announced, more than 3,000 videos submitted by amateur and professional musicians from 70-plus countries were auditioned.
Voters among the 15 million viewers selected the 93 winners, who ranged from ages 15 to 55 and included a surgeon-violinist and a professional poker player-cellist.
“We’re meeting a lot of different worlds,” conductor Michael Tilson Thomas told the audience before the first downbeat, “the real time world, the online world and the experience of getting acquainted. For us it’s been something between a classical music summit conference (and) scout jamboree combined with speed dating.” Only last month, the prestigious British magazine Gramophone placed the group among the 10 most inspiring orchestras, praising it “for democratizing classical music on a global scale, making it truly all-inclusive.”
In between these immortal pillars, the orchestra played a wide assortment of works, including challenging pieces by Lou Harrison, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Cage and the world premiere of Tan Dun’s “Internet Symphony No. 1, Eroica.”
The show was nearly stolen by three youngsters mentored by the pianist Lang Lang — 8-year-old Charlie Liu of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey; Anna Larsen, also 8, and fellow Boston resident Derek Wang, 10. They plopped down on a bench and played a six-hand waltz by Rachmaninoff without a hitch, then took their bows to the audience’s delight. AP
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