The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I was lucky enough to see you on stage in Pittsburgh, 5 years ago. Your music will live on. Thank you.

I'm okay, and I hope this goes for all of you out there.

And thanks, Mark, for keeping this forum going!

Greetings from Pittsburgh
Jan

Are these simply jewish musicians doing an arrangement of Bacharach? Is it suppose to be classicaly Jewish? Not sure I got that impression. This album is part of a series about Jewish composers, Jewish musicians, Jewish culture and the question: What means "Jewish content"? So there is a ...

There's a whole album around this topic, released on John Zorn's label:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Great-J ... ase/380081

Heavy stuff in parts, but worth listening. There are many aspects to Burt's music that still have to be discovered ...

Jan

Here are some more press reviews -- sorry, I don't have the time to translate them, but they all are over the moon! https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/musik/berliner-admiralspalast-fans-feiern-burt-bacharachs-konzertpremiere-in-deutschland-30960856 https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/burt-bachara...

I've been there, and you might be interested to read my review:

http://janreetze.blogspot.com/2018/04/b ... arach.html

Greetings from Steeltown!

... I doubt Burt wrote it thinking of sub-dominants and the like - he just did it as it came. I'm not so sure about this. For sure he doesn't say: "Okay, just for fun let's have a little plagal cadence here". But this guy knows his stuff extremely well, and some of his compositorial probl...

Thanks for the link!

I remember there was a performance planned with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (or maybe the Pittsburgh Pops, which in fact is the same orchestra) a couple of years ago. It had to be canceled because of BB's back surgery, and they never rescheduled it.

That's something I would be excited about.

Thank you for the link, BTB - nice finding!

Simply great. Thanks for the link!

Try "The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash". You will love it.

Nobody please ask me who Julia Holter is. But what I can say is: This is what a cover version should be like. She takes the song and makes it her own. And somehow there are some traces of Nico in it.

The average top 40 radio listener won't get familiar with this melody, even after three listenings, and there are these strange key changes (which, for my ears, seem to be a bit arbitrary this time). That makes this composition "interesting", seen from a music-theoretical point of view, bu...

It is way too lost in the 80s dance theme in the original. Well, the question was about haunting melodies. And the originator of this melody is ... not Coldplay. Besides this: Computer Love was recorded by an electronic band in 1981. It's a bit ridiculous to blame the track for not sounding like a ...