Music for Michelle Revisited: MP3s of Agnus Dei & Elgar's co

[Shallah]

Agnus Dei <a href=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3216/AgnusDei.mp3>here</a> BIG file so you might want to use Save Targe As (or whatever variation there of your browser uses). Happy listening!

[Maeve]

Here's the Elgar... Can't you tell Shallah & I have been working hard tonight? ;-) <a href=http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3216/Elgar.mp3>Concerto for Cello & Orchestra in E Minor, Adagio Moderato</a> Oh yeah, this is the Jaqueline du Pre version. I apologize for the quality, I guess I've worn out my CD... {shrug}

[skatingfan]

Interesting to see this thread tonight. I just bought a copy of Hilary and Jackie from Blockbuster. They have a $2 off sale and ended up buying the tape for $2.99. I think Mk must skate to the elgar concerto. How can we make her take notice of these pieces of music, the Barber,and Elgar. And I always want her to skate to Eric Korgold's vioin concerto. I think we should send her the cd for her B day, and make a audio tape copy and send to Lori Nicol. If Lori is convinced, then she can persuade Michelle.

[Brian]

I love both of these peices, MK MUST SKATE TO THIS MUSIC! LOL! Shallah, I love this version of Barber's Adagio. I swear, every time I hear this peice of music I start to tear up. It is so emotional. If MK ever skates to it, I will probably start crying every time I see it!

[AYS]

These links aren't working for me :-(

[Brian]

AYS, right click your mouse and click "save target as". Save it to your desktop and then click the icon when it is done downloading.

[Shallah]

And thanks Maeve for the webspace for the song :-) Ays either you might need to do what Brian suggested or you can copy the url and past it into your media player. Since the files are so large I myself would download them then listen to them. Here is a listing at CDNow for albums with music by <a href=http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1772935331/pagename=/RP/CDN/CLASS/discography.html/C=BARBER*S.>Samuel Barber</a> where there is bound to be more than one album with Barber's Agnus Dei incase you don't want nothing but different versions of the Adagio for Strings. The acutal album that mp3 is from is <a href=http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1772935331/pagename=/RP/CDN/CLASS/muzealbum.html/ddcn=SD-9027+68758+2>Barber's Adagio</a> which I totally love!

[AYS]

Thanks for the help :-) Those pieces would both be beautiful for Michelle, although if she chose either, we would have to put up with all the complaints that she isn't doing something upbeat and foot-tapping :-( Barber's Agnus Dei always reminds me so much of Sergei Grinkov :-(

[Shallah]

Many people still complain that all her programs are the same even with A Day in the Life being a Beatles song performed by a guy who was in the rock band Judas Priest & The Red Violin! I just hope Michelle continues to find and use music and moves her no matter what other people say. When it comes down too it competition wise it only matters what the judges think, not what us FS fans think - AND we need to keep in mind that some of the people complaining about Michelle's musical choices Never have anything good to say about her. Why should she try to please them???

[AYS]

I completely agree with you, I really shouldn't let those other comments bug me. On another note, I *have* to correct the error about Jeff Beck, the guitarist who did the version of ADITL that Michelle used. He never played in the band Judas Priest. Unless you know of someone else involved in that recording other than the guitarist who was with Judas Priest (?) Beck got first became pretty widely known in the '60's playing with the Yardbirds after Clapton left them. I got into his music around '70 or so when he had The Jeff Beck Group because the vocalist was one of my faves, Rod Stewart (before he went of to Small Faces, then Faces, then just himself). Maybe his most popular recording was his "Blow by Blow" in the mid '70s - a gorgeous somewhat fusion jazz and rock style album that includes an instrumental version of the Beatles's She's a Woman that is stylistically similar to ADITL that Michelle skates to.

[Shallah]

My older sister is the one who said he was in Judas Priest - and as she was and maybe still is a fan of that band I believed her!! re: others comments - they bug me too but I keep reminding myself what I said before. I want Michelle to become a legend that future skaters and fans will look back on like so many do to Janet Lynn :-) Who knows, there were probably people who found Janet boring too! Shallah who has never seen a full program of Janet Lynn and greatly regrets this

[Amelia]

IS there any version of the Elgar besides Jacqueline's??? Honestly, I don't see how anyone could even try to play it after she did. I'm a cellist, and I can't decide if I'm excited about playing it or not. Same with the Dvorak, which I actually love more than the Elgar. ::Sigh:: I should just stop being so darn obsessive about everything! Lol! Amelia the Cello and Skating Girl

[skatingfan]

Didn't they say Y.Y. Ma had an Elgar version. I am not a musician, but I wonder how it is like for new musicians to play pieces of music that has already been immortalized by past masters. I know when V. mae and N. Kennedy butchered some of my most favorite violin pieces by David Ostreich, I have negative reactions to Kennedy's and Mae's other pieces of music. I think part of the reason I am not 100% enthusiastic about sarah Hughes' Nessun Dorma program is b/c of V. Mae. Having said that please do not give up playing the Elgar, maybe you will be the next Du Pre or the next Ma. Please keep up.

[AYS]

Shallah- A big difference between being a big fan of Janet Lynn (which I have been since around ten years old-around the same time I first heard of Jeff Beck LOL) and MK is that I wasn't reading a bunch of criticism of Lynn on the internet all the time. Just about all the commentary I was exposed to was that of Dick Button and Jim McKay; and believe me, they didn't have anything *bad* to say of her, aside from the fact that she wasn't strong in school figures. If people *were* on the internet at that time, I'm sure they would have been saying lots of things I disagreed with then, too. If I weren't reading these boards all the time, I would never have thought people would be criticizing MK about being: slow boring in a rut stagnant washed up because frankly, these criticisms just don't jive with either my personal perceptions of her skating or with what the commentators on TV say about her.

[Maeve]

The more I think about it, the more I think Yo Yo Ma was not the one playing Elgar. Okay, lemme back up. Several years ago (8/9, so we're talking junior high) I saw a PBS special on cellists. There was all kinds of old footage and interviews, and now that I think back I'm pretty sure it was an old white guy playing Elgar. I didn't know what I was listening to at the time so all of the information kinda ran together - I've liked the Elgar piece (and Dvorak, which is what they showed of du Pre - I'm sure about that) since then but I didn't have a name for it until I watched another thing on A&E(? I'm getting old) a couple of summers ago. Now I'm thinking the old white guy could have been Pablo Casals... I tried searching CDNow for Ma recordings of Elgar but no such luck... Now I'm off to find a pic of Casals...

[skatingfan]

I just went to www.towerrecords.com and did an advance search on Yo-Yo Ma, and Elgar concerto. There is a cd title" Great cello conerto, Yo-Yo Ma" CBS masterworks, distributed by Sony. The cd has Haydn, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint Saen and Elgar cello concertos.It is reduced from $34 to $26.

[Shallah]

I can't get that Elgar piece out of my brain!!! What is the name of your cd??? I need to hear the entire song!!!!! Maybe I can figure out when my local classical station has request time and can get them to play it for me!

[Maeve]

Actually, I have 2. I used the soundtrack to Hilary and Jackie because it has the 4 minute excerpt from Adagio - the entire concerto is later on the CD. I also have Jacqueline du Pre: Favorite Cello Concertos, and if you want a larger array of Jacqueline du Pre I really, really recommend it. It has the Dvorak that Amelia mentioned, along with several others. The version on the soundtrack is with the Philadelphia Orchestra, but the version on Favorite Cello Concertos is with the London Symphony Orchestra. I personally like the London Symphony version better, but I also had to plunk down $30 for Favorite... (it's a 3-CD set) as opposed to $12 for the movie soundtrack. There's definitely not $18 worth of difference if all you want is the Elgar Concerto.

[Shallah]

I tear up everytime and sometimes simply start sobbing. My Dad was recently diagnosed with cancer and this music helps me deal with it, helps me cry when otherwise would surpress it (making myself sick). It is down right Theraputic!! Music Soothes the Savage Shallah! GRRRRRR!

[Maeve]

Shallah, I am now officially addicted to Agnus Dei... Thank you...

[Sandshrew66]

How about something like Copland's The Tender Land (distinctly American) or something like Antillean Dances Opus No.4 (I think by Muller or somesuch). I just heard it over a classical music station in NY and it's perfect for skating. And even though her programs have been really stellar, here's to hoping that MK doesn't skate to anymore tragic heroines (Princess Mumtaj, Desdemona, Carmen, Ariane).

[AYS]

I was just thinking yesterday that I'd like to see MK do something to Copeland

[Maeve]

Something modern and powerful, like Copland, would be nice... I'm not at all familiar with The Tender Land, my Copland knowledge is pretty much limited to Rodeo and the obligatory Olympic music (something for something Man?). I also agree that the tragic heroine thing is getting a little old. She does it well, but when D!ck says Michelle is in a rut you KNOW she's in a rut... Then again, skating to Jacqueline du Pre would be about a 1/4 step away from portraying a tragic heroine, huh?

[Shallah]

cuz I ordered another copy of Barber's Adagio album and am going to mail it too her. Hope she doesn't think I am crazy. I also hope she will acutally have time to listen to it! Anyone want to reccomend the best address to mail Michelle things? I really want to be sure to get this to her!