Candy no longer talks with me

That music of Ennio Morricone hasn't been used in a movie. That's why its name is UNUSED THEME.

 

It was written foir the film, 'once upon a time in America' but wasn't used, Apparently Morricone wrote a number of tunes and had a big row with the director over this not being used.

 

This is appropriate for the she never talks to me discussion...

 

Video cannot be seen.

 

go to youtube and look for Absence of Presence - Kansas

 

What a melancholic theme, huh?

 

Melancholy, actually comes from the word 'melancholia' which in ancient times was a term used by the men of medicine to describe a person who we now in modern times call depressed.

 

How beautiful that piano is Zen.
I would have loved and have been proud to have had one of those in my home if the size of the room could have accommodated it.
This even if though I have never been able to play a piano.
Magnificent instruments indeed.

 

As you probably already know, this is one of my favourite works, A love that I shared with Morrow.

Rachmaninoff suffered severe bouts of depression during and after opus 17 and thought that he would never write another note.
The cloud suddenly lifted and this magnificent opus 18 piano concerto was born.

It is thought that it was inspired by him watching the waves lapping on the beach during a receding tide, the various themes in the first movement representing the draining rock pools.
The second movement being the calm as the tide turned, leading to the final movement where the tide rose again, represented my a number of crescendo's. as it got nearer.

Rachmaninoff was also asked to score the film Dangerous Moonlight based on this work. He declined at the last minute and Richard Addinsell was commissioned to score the film, resulting in the Warsaw concerto being written. While originally it only existed as the film score, it was later published as a single movement concerto.

 

I love that Chopin concerto. Beethoven's 3rd is another of my favourites. I always think that it inspired the music for the pirates of Penzance.
Have you had a chance to listen to the recording of the Warsaw Concerto that I posted, it is on of the best.

 

I love some ofthe classical stuff, when I was much younger I learned to play the keyboard, a mate at work had learned the piano because his mum wanted him to, anyway this was years ago in my 'previous life', we were on an undercover job at a school that had been broken into, word was it was going to get hit again, we'd been there all night for almost a week, nothing had happened and we were getting bored, then one night we found a piano. Well that was it, he sat down and began prodding the keys, it all came back to him, he began to play 'Hey Jude' by the Beatles, so I started to sing, this was about half 3 inthe morning.
We had a whale of a time although I doubt our bosses would have seen it that way, and, several days later we did catch the burglars, result!,

 

Love Betty Boop!