Melody's Musings

Stuff that catches my fancy and random, sorted thoughts from the inner scrambles of my mind.

What you may expect to find here are what I consider good taste and some of the best in photography, philosophy, humor, art, architecture, food, music, poetry, literature and dance. I hope you like some of the things I enjoy.

I like anything to do with good design such as interior design, architecture, photography, and art. I enjoy philosophy and psychology. I love to figure out what makes individuals tick. Music of most all types but particularly classical, world, pop, acoustic guitar is a big part of my life and add some dance to the music and my day is great! I like to write and occasionally I will write poetry and I really love to read it out loud and I even record it sometimes.

I'm a Myers-Briggs type ENFJ which means I love people and have a great interest in them.

I guess you could say I'm a humanities kind of person. :)







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    Michael Meets Mozart - 1 Piano, 2 Guys, 100 Cello Tracks - ThePianoGuys

     

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    BYOB (System Of A Down Cover) by Break Of Reality

    more cello!

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    Maya Beiser performing “Mariel”

    Love me, love my cello music!

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    Stjepan Hauser - Hungarian Rhapsody Op. 68 (LIVE)

    This is one brilliant performance of this piece that is so familiar to me.  My Hungarian grandfather had a music business and I grew up with this.   No one does a finer job of this in my opinion. 

    If you are a cello aficionado as I am, you’ll want to take some time out to listen to this.

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    2CELLOS - We Found Love [Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris]

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    Maya Beiser performing “Mariel”

    Get your jacket, this will send shivers down your spine, its so hauntingly beautiful

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    There’s something about the rich and resonant sound of the cello that connects with many people. Perhaps it’s because the instrument is the closest, they say, to the human voice. That was certainly true when Zuill Bailey picked up his cello to play this lovely impromptu concert behind Bob Boilen’s desk, here at NPR Music’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Bailey doesn’t play just any old cello. Yes, it is old — very old — but it’s also special, built by the renowned Venetian maker Matteo Goffriller in 1693. That means Johann Sebastian Bach was all of 8 years old when Goffriller slapped on the final layer of shellac.

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    2CELLOS play “Prelude” by Shostakovich

    Guess I’m just in one of my cello moods tonight, but I could listen to these guys anytime!

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    If you love cello music as much as I do, don’t dare miss this……be amazed!

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    A Hungarian duo, Fele királyság playing some Michael Jackson on cello and violin.

    More of their music videos can be found here:  http://5mp.eu/web.php?a=felekiralysag&o=B5ErzQP0ln

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    “Sparrow”~ Melancholy, by Adam Hurst

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    La Blogotheque presents
    Esmerine | Sprouts | Nohna’s Lullaby | A Take Away Show

    A treat for the ears!  Listen to the details and let the music carry you away! 

    “The detail. Details. The abundance of details. The more I try to have a total picture of this meeting with Esmerine, and the more I remember of details. Baby I could dream about the hours by thinking of the new bricks of lego which I was going to be able to put together, once having opened Christmas presents.”

    http://www.blogotheque.net/2012/02/03/esmerine/

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    Cello and Flamenco Guitar

    Gaspar Claus & Pedro Soler - A Take Away Show, Episode 1 

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    The cellist of Sarajevo, Vedran Smailović came back to Sarajevo, 20 years after the beginning of the war.

    Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till today, the 5th of april 2012.

    During a small concert in the Holiday Inn Hotel he played Adagio for Vedran Smailović, written by the English composer Nigel Osborne.

    More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedran_Smailović

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    fotojournalismus: Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012. [Credit : Mikhail Evstafiev]

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    Vedran Smajlović performs in Sarajevo’s partially destroyed National Library in 1992. Smailović became famous by taking his cello into the streets of Sarajevo during the siege. Regularly playing his cello in ruined buildings during the siege of Sarajevo, most notably performing Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. He protested against violence and murder by playing during bombings and funerals. He left the city in 1993 and never played again in his hometown. Till the 5th of April 2012.

    [Credit : Mikhail Evstafiev]

    (via npr)

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