tingilinde

on elizabeth cotton

A  musical innovator. 

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Cotten was married in her mid-teens and had a daughter. A pastor discouraged her from playing "wordly" songs. But by the mid-1940s she had left the church and her marriage and she was living with family in Washington, D.C. when she applied for a job at a local department store, where she was hired to sell dolls. When a girl wandered away, Cotten saved the day by reuniting her with her mother. She didn't know it, but that woman was composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, wife of ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, and mother to budding folk musicians Mike and Peggy, and stepson Pete- who was well on his way to stardom as a member of the Weavers.

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hamilton de holanda

I've heard him live on four occasions.  Hamilton is known for re-imagining how the mandolin is played and is often called the best mandolin player in the world.  David notes this live concert where he was extemporizing.

 

rhiannon giddens

"Si Dolce è'l Tormento" by Claudio Monteverdi

evolving music

Studying evolution in songs.

audio and transcript, but some music is performed

 

 

 

odetta and folksongs

The revolution she brought.  I was lucky enough to have attended two of her concerts.

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“In the songs I heard that night, including prison songs,” Odetta told Sing Out! magazine, in 1991, “I found the sadness, the loneliness, the fear that I was feeling at the time. It turned my life around.” The earliest chart versions of folk music had presented songs from a vague but anodyne past, unspecific in politics and cultural origin. Electric instruments were mostly verboten, giving the movement a conservative aesthetic. Even as the music was being slowly tied to Communism (sometimes accurately), the demeanor of the genre was cheerful and unthreatening. Then Odetta developed a form that had the elastic power to change popular music. The same qualities that made her music radical in the fifties also make her work sound antiquated now: a Black woman animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer. If we are to speak of “dunks” in twentieth-century popular culture, this is up there. Odetta was the secret-agent contralto, amplifying a history of pain others were using for sing-alongs.

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music and olympians

It's certainly important - perhaps even more in the absence of crowds.

In beach volleyball matches the DJ has a request list from some of the players to be used when appropriate. My Canadian friend uses Coldplay's A Sky Full of Stars. Their biggest rivals use Last Chance by Kaskade. One team has Let it Go from Frozen -- but in Spanish.

 

 

victor borge

amazing - a tip of the hat to Bjarne

a most curious swedish export

I would have never guessed it might be K-pop songs.

a bonus feature of the article is you don't have to listen.

 

 

mezzo-sopranos

The NY Times music appreciation section features them today.

 

recipe cards

Frightening meal suggestions from the 40s through the early 70s mostly driven by women's magazines and processed food companies. 

Vintage Recipe Cards collects some of them.

A period song comes to mind