Category Archives: SOUNDS

Music, video or voice recordings that relate to Life, Universes and Other Stuff

LET’S PRETEND

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LET’S PRETEND

When we’re young we run
and play “let’s pretend” to be
anything and everything – just for fun.
Our imagination is the key.
As we grow up we are told
by others who are very serious
That reality is time and space and gold;
that games and visions are delirious.
Life goes on and we agree
what other people think is best:
to play our part in reality
just like them and all the rest.
Every game has a start,
a middle and conclusion.
When the time comes to depart
just make a new illusion!
You are Spirit ! Life Eternal !
You’ll make a future and new friends !
Through your dreams you are immortal;
like children playing “let’s pretend”.

— by Lawrence R. Spencer

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor

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This is my favorite classical music composition ever.  This  performance is delivered with precision and passion by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra:

Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 “Choral”

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770, Bonn, Germany — 1827, Vienna, Austria)

Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived.  His 9th Symphony combines the worlds of vocal and instrumental music in a manner never before attempted. His personal life was marked by a heroic struggle against encroaching deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life when he was quite unable to hear.

Performance by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor

1 Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2 Scherzo. Molto vivace — Presto
3 Adagio molto e cantabile
4 Presto — Allegro ma non troppo

Annette Dasch, soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, contralto
Piotr Beczala, tenor
Georg Zeppenfeld, bass