What are you listening to right now?

[Laodicean]

[Jeff]

Really, really: this is just stunning.

[justdrew]

nice send off though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTF_11kly

[norton ash]

[justdrew]

so FYI... we now have 3 different youtube tags. the basic one remains the same as ever, but we now also have youtube2 and youtube3. 2 is bigger, and 3 is small. they both use the new embed player code, and so, have the fullscreen button right on the embed. above see two examples of the yuotube3 tage, for the small videos (primarily used for sound, when the video content is of little import. Here is an example of the larger version...

[Allegro]

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justdrew, Thanks! for your notes below.

Since justdrew has quoted below in its entirety what I had originally put here, I’ve taken the liberty of replacing my original in this space with a bit of a memory that popped in early this morning and wouldn’t go away. Still hasn’t, really.

The memory is of a grand old lady, we’ll call her Kath, who was my voice instructor after university. She was a contralto with a humongous voice even at her age, and she would smoke cigarettes outside her studio door in the open air for the fifteen minutes between students .

Kath met and sang for Gian Carlo Menotti probably in the late 1940’s, and sang contralto roles in performances of his pieces in the 1950’s. So, this morning, when I came across his name in a list of 20th century composers, I discovered this video of a contralto singing one of the loveliest pieces of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s opera, The Consul.

The Lullaby
the aria begins at mark 1.30 after the recitative


[YOUTUBE NOTES.] Young Canadian contralto Oriana Dunlop sings the haunting Lullaby from Gian-Carlo Menotti’s 1950 Pulitzer Prize winning opera, The Consul.

Taped during a live performance at the Halifax Summer Opera Workshop on July 31, 2008. Accompanist Tara Scott. Stage Director Nina Scott-Stoddart.

LYRICS
I shall find for you shells and stars
I shall swim for you river and sea
Sleep my love, Sleep for me, My sleep is old

I shall feed for you lamb and dove
I shall buy for you sugar and bread
Sleep my love, sleep for me, My sleep is dead

Rain will fall but baby won’t know
He laughs alone in orchards of gold
Tears will fall but baby won’t know
His laughter is blind
Sleep my love for sleep is kind
Sleep is kind when sleep is young
Sleep for me, sleep for me

I shall build for you planes and boats
I shall catch for you cricket and bee
Let the old ones watch your sleep
Only death will watch the old
Sleep sleep
sleep sleep sleep
sleep sleep sleep

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[justdrew]

so FYI... we now have 3 different youtube tags. the basic one remains the same as ever, but we now also have youtube2 and youtube3. 2 is bigger, and 3 is small. they both use the new embed player code, and so, have the fullscreen button right on the embed. above see two examples of the yuotube3 tage, for the small videos (primarily used for sound, when the video content is of little import. Here is an example of the larger version...

Thanks! justdrew. Got it.

Somewhere, someone in RI asked how to begin a youtube at a particular start time, for instance, at 1.45. I too found the start time option, but couldn't find good code after various experiments. Any tips? Anyone?

it's just like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQNXwER4j8&t=33s

just adding the "&t=#m#s" like "&t=32m14s"

but... and I tried... the embeded player just doesn't handle the start time field
so it'll work with a link, but not an embed. maybe someday it'll work for embeds too.

[Laodicean]

Nice!

[Laodicean]

Really, really: this is just stunning.

That was beautiful...

[Laodicean]

[Jeff]

This was Jack's favourite song. It was performed at the funeral too, but I haven't found a good video of it.





And thanks Drew for adding the sizing options to the youtube tags.

[Bruce Dazzling]

[norton ash]

More good shit from Jack's funeral. The youtube of Into the Mystic is the only one I can find, truncated but still a taste.

[Jeff]

More good shit from Jack's funeral. The youtube of Into the Mystic is the only one I can find, truncated but still a taste.

Yes, that was beautiful.

Richard Underhill again:

[Laodicean]