Month: February 2025

WAXED <OR> WAXXED

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Alexander Vertinsky

https://youtu.be/mMaz70bOd7w?si=q1g4qw1uqt-hUqM7 Alexander Vertinsky – Dorogoi dlinnoyu – Дорогой длинною – By the long road.The orginal Russian song version sung here by Alexander Vertinsky, who first recorded “By the Long Road” in 1926. Gene Raskin used the song for “Those were the days.” Popularised by Mary Hopkins’ release 42 years later. Aleksander Wertyński (Vertinsky) – Chanson…… Continue reading Alexander Vertinsky

Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

https://youtu.be/qEzmd48TIrA?si=nlmiE2zrtbEl4oEe / 2024 /…(in my opinion)If you watch the video start to finish you’ll pretty much experience the entire history of classical music melody-making Listed in chronological order: 0:00 Claudio Monteverdi 1:38 Heinrich Schütz 2:23 Barbara Strozzi 4:03 Jean-Baptiste Lully 5:29 Henry Purcell 7:34 Arcangelo Corelli 9:13 Georg Friedrich Händel 10:41 Antonio Vivaldi 12:38 Jean-Philippe…… Continue reading Every Major Composer’s Greatest Melody

Slime Moulds | In Our Time

BBC Radio 4 – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats and compost heaps. Scientists have found difficult to categorise slime mould: in 1868, the biologist Thomas Huxley asked: ‘Is this a plant, or is it an animal? Is it both or is it neither?’ and there…… Continue reading Slime Moulds | In Our Time