Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Trololo Man
1:18 AM
Posted by VINOD
Title: I am very glad because I'm finally back home.
Singer: Edward Khil.
Description :
Khil, a fine baritone, is shown crooning a wordless but catchy little tune.
The song is an evergreen, but in fact, it is called a "vocalization", i.e., singing without words.
The reason the song does not have a single word because the lyrics was considered to be too naughty during the Soviet times and such lyrics would not have survived the harsh censorship.
A Quote from the lyrics :
"I'm riding my mustang horse on the prairie, while my beloved Mary is a thousand miles away knitting my socks..."
He explained that the reason the iconic song has no lyrics is that the original ones, about a cowboy riding the range while his wife sits at home knitting socks, were banned as "too naughty" by Soviet censors of the day.
"A theme like that was unacceptable, so we decided to sing it without any words at all," he said.
Over 2 million people watched this video on Internet.
From Kansas City to London, from Canada to Philippines - fans from around the globe have recently been responding to it, begging the 75 year-old baritone, Khil, to go on a world concert tour with his unorthodox hit, "I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home."
An official petition has even been launched and published on Facebook, referring to Eduard Khil as the "Trololo man", and urging the singer to go on a tour with his "greatest song ever."
Khil's signature style and optimism have proved infectious to the point where the Oscar-winning star of "Inglorious Basterds", Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, performed his version of the Soviet hit when he recently appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
O Fortuna
1:04 AM
Posted by VINOD
O Fortuna - The Best Ever Classical Composition
O Fortuna is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem composed early in the thirteenth century, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It is a complaint about fate, and Fortuna, a goddess in Roman mythology and personification of luck. In 1935–36 O Fortuna was set to music by the German composer Carl Orff for his twenty-five-movement cantata Carmina Burana. It is the most famous movement and opens and closes the cycle. Orff's setting of the poem has become immensely popular and has been performed by countless classical music ensembles as well as popular artists. The piece only plays for a little over two and a half minutes. It opens on a slower pace with thumping drums and choir that drops quickly into a whisper building slowly into a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn notes peaking on one last long powerful note and ending abruptly.
Lyrics :
| Latin | English |
|---|---|
O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite! | O Fortune, just as the moon Stands constantly changing, always increasing or decreasing; Detestable life now difficult and then easy Deceptive sharp mind; poverty power it melts them like ice. Fate—monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, stand malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game, my bare back I bring to your villainy. Fate is against me in health, and virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating string; since through Fate strikes down the strong, everyone weep with me! |
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