Burt on Saturday's All Things Considered
Moderator: mark
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Burt on Saturday's All Things Considered
Haven't been able to verify, but I've been told that Burt will be making an appearance on today's edition of All Things Considered on PBS.
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all things considered
He was on NPR (national public radio).
You can hear it from their website.
It was very good. Burt's alright!
You can hear it from their website.
It was very good. Burt's alright!
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GehVorbei
Beautiful!!! It runs about 10 or 12 minutes and has Burt sitting on the piano and actually doing quite a bit of singing. From doing a Dietrich impression on "Falling In Love Again" to a stunning take on "Go Ask Shakespeare".
[url] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5056125
[url] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5056125
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AndreB
NPR "listen" button
Can anyone get this to work? When I try to click the "listen" button on the NPR link, it downloads a file that's supposed to run under the Adobe "GoLive" software. I have version 7 of this program on my PowerBook computer, but I can't for the life of me get it to play the audio file! AAARGH!!!
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igtmfo
Wow, Burt in superfine mind, spirit, thoughts and playing. I hadn't heard an interview with him since D. Byrne posed questions at the BB/Costello taping for PBS/Trio TV in 1997. For those who don't want to download the interview, IMHO I'll summarize ...
This is a typical interview by a general reporter who had a little knowledge on BB but not much, who has to give BB's whole worth in 60 seconds for her audience .. her own quick-research-understanding of Burt also must serve as background for the newbies. But her last question was by far the best: paraphrasing ... "When you write a melody and you know it's good does it kind of hit you in the gut and you know you're onto something great ....?
Burt: "When that happens I leave the piano and go lie on the couch and think of the possibilities ... if I sit at the piano the easy, pretty changes present themselves"
(then he plays and sings to demonstrate some pretty chords and changes, as it would be easy to complete a song that way ...)
... "But I want to work it out away from the piano, the tune as well as the orchestration and the arrangement ..." Nice insight.
As I've been drinking beer tonite, I want to forward the following philosophical theory ..
The great american songbook, lump into that the beatles and all the pop/rock singer songwriters of the 70s ... charitably lasted between 1935-1975. If you are a semi-oldtimer like me, these are the great songs you listen to. (Partly because A&R guys then were themselves musicians, and they helped the cream rise to the top ....)
Well 1975-2006 is over 3/4 of the time since then, almost the same era/time has elapsed since then. And we ain't got no new genii of that era like Burt, Beatles, RRogers, good god the Jules Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen, CPorter, VDuke of olden days writing stuff-that-would-become-Sinatra-classics,and so forth. I heard an obscure Hoagy Carmichael song yesterday for the first time, "Small Fry," that was the best song, melodywise, I'd heard in years. Not quite Stardust, but almost Skylark ..
Wat gives? That era must have been a flower, and nowadays everything is kind of dormant, underground ... maybe a new flower, renaissance is coming ..
This is a typical interview by a general reporter who had a little knowledge on BB but not much, who has to give BB's whole worth in 60 seconds for her audience .. her own quick-research-understanding of Burt also must serve as background for the newbies. But her last question was by far the best: paraphrasing ... "When you write a melody and you know it's good does it kind of hit you in the gut and you know you're onto something great ....?
Burt: "When that happens I leave the piano and go lie on the couch and think of the possibilities ... if I sit at the piano the easy, pretty changes present themselves"
(then he plays and sings to demonstrate some pretty chords and changes, as it would be easy to complete a song that way ...)
... "But I want to work it out away from the piano, the tune as well as the orchestration and the arrangement ..." Nice insight.
As I've been drinking beer tonite, I want to forward the following philosophical theory ..
The great american songbook, lump into that the beatles and all the pop/rock singer songwriters of the 70s ... charitably lasted between 1935-1975. If you are a semi-oldtimer like me, these are the great songs you listen to. (Partly because A&R guys then were themselves musicians, and they helped the cream rise to the top ....)
Well 1975-2006 is over 3/4 of the time since then, almost the same era/time has elapsed since then. And we ain't got no new genii of that era like Burt, Beatles, RRogers, good god the Jules Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen, CPorter, VDuke of olden days writing stuff-that-would-become-Sinatra-classics,and so forth. I heard an obscure Hoagy Carmichael song yesterday for the first time, "Small Fry," that was the best song, melodywise, I'd heard in years. Not quite Stardust, but almost Skylark ..
Wat gives? That era must have been a flower, and nowadays everything is kind of dormant, underground ... maybe a new flower, renaissance is coming ..