In the days when hifi stereo long playing vinyl records were the ultimate when matched with a good cartridge, tone arm, turntable, amplifier and speakers, and parallel tone arms were arguably better, the Bette Midler album simply titled Bette Midler came out in 1973 and I bought a copy from John Stagg at the Regent Arcade record shop in Adelaide. …
Berlioz – Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
I first heard of and listened to Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triumphale by Hector Berlioz when the LP shown below was sent to me in 1969 as a member of the World Record Club. I was enthralled by the work on my first hearing, and nearly 50 years later it still excites and moves me when I play and listen to the …
Trooping the Colour – 2017
A year has gone past since my last post, and because of that I was going to skip posting a video of Trooping the Colour this year. But this afternoon, just out of interest I had a look at the video this year, and I was so impressed that I decided to post it. The features this year, including a …
Florence Foster Jenkins – Part 2
This is my second post about Florence Foster Jenkins. The first can be found here. In it I wrote that there were plans to make a movie about her life in 2015 staring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. As it turned out, two movies inspired by her life were released in 2016. The first was a fictional French film called Marguerite, …
Note By Note – The Making of Steinway L1037
From the Dreamweaver old JTHonline site Hmmm. Richter has played a 7 min 51 sec (or longer) piece in 5 min 54 secs? The official website can be visited HERE and it has the Pounding Room Intro, followed by a slide show of scenes and review hightlights. You can control the speed of the slideshow and make it go …
JPS Harmonic Synthesizer
My interest in keyboard synthesizers and computer music began in 1990 when I bought a Korg M1 and already had an Commodore Amiga computer at home. That was my first experience with what is now called a DAW – Digital Audio Workstation. On the Amiga I used several of Dr T’s music programs including KCS and Music Mouse; but my …