On Turning 60 1-b, side note - Tom Waits (76! this month). What do Beethoven, Petrucciani and Jeff Lynne have in common?
On Turning 60 1-b, side note - Tom Waits (76! this month). What do Beethoven, Petrucciani and Jeff Lynne have in common?
(note the lack of meter, the whole imitating a kerchief being blown along by a wind) ...(2017/2025): December. Birthday month. Music. Fiddling around with music posts a few years ago I noticed...an odd thing. Like everyone else, I've listened to an enormous amount of music since, well, my birth almost 51 (now 59) years ago. And a bit like everyone else I have a few favorites. Despite the huge numbers of people listened to, only 3 - all of them men - consistently 'get' and got to me through their music. All 3 preferences, as usual, being established in my teens or late childhood. (The notion of both the ages - my age when a composer or musician was first heard and music as a 'talking' meta-language - would each be for a different note.) Basically they, those 3 ...talk. I hear them in fairly -you could call them deep and consistent - places. Every time I hear their music. The first was Jeff Lynne (first of ELO, then solo.) Pop with strings ...
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