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Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, composer and vocalist in The Grateful Dead, nicknamed Captain Trips - died on this day in 1995, aged 53, of a heart attack while in rehab…
Photo of Jerry on a cold day in Copenhagen, 1971
Jerry Garcia-Whiskey in the Jar

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Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Russian Waltz
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Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5,Bernstein

Alexander Glazunov, Russian classical composer - Aug. 10, 1865 - 1936…
Photo: Alfred Fedetsky, 1899
Alexander Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 - Moderato - Andante sostenuto - Allegro 2/2
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We’re (still) dedicated followers of Léon Theremin (Aug. 15, 1896 - 1993) here at OF…

Leon Theremin and Clara
The Rhythmicon…
A transposable keyboard instrument capable of playing notes in periodic rhythms proportional to the overtone series of a chosen fundamental pitch. The world’s first electronic rhythm machine, with a photoreceptor-based sound production system proposed by American composer Henry Cowell (Mar. 11, 1897 - 1965), it could produce up to sixteen different rhythmic patterns simultaneously, complete with optional syncopation. Cowell wrote several original compositions for the instrument, including an orchestrated concerto, and Leon Theremin built two more models. Soon, however, the Rhythmicon would be virtually forgotten, remaining so until the 1960s, when progressive pop music producer Joe Meek experimented with its rhythmic concept… (Wiki)
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Romanian composer, conductor and violin virtuoso George Enescu: Aug. 19, 1881 - 1955…
Enescu was a classic case of the central European artist and intellectual, roaming freely between Vienna, Bucharest and Paris to seek inspiration, patronage and to practice his art…
Photo - Bucharest, 1943
Romanian Rhapsody George Enescu
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On August 19, 1990 the great conductor Leonard Bernstein bowed out, conducting as his final piece Beethoven’s 7th symphony. During the performance Lenny had a bad coughing spell, nearly disrupting the concert. Bernstein died of pneumonia less than 2 months later, his heavy smoking habit having caused him to battle emphysema for several years prior to his death at age 72…
Photo: Lenny composing, 1955 - possibly writing Symphonic Suite from “On the Waterfront”, based on his film score from the previous year…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major Movement 2 by Leonard Bernstein
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Maxim Vengerov, who used to be the world’s best classical violinist before he injured his bowing hand in 2007, is 37 today.
Vengerov is now into conducting in a big way, as he tries to get back from the injury - and he has quite recently begun playing a few violin pieces at the end of his concerts…
Photo: Tibor Rausch
Most Beautiful Violin Sounds (Maxim Vengerov)
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Old-school mezzo, Dame Janet Baker - b. Aug. 21, 1933…
'Ich bin der Welt...' * Mahler * JANET BAKER * 1967
Legendary British mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker (b. 1933) sings 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' ('I am lost to the world') from Gustav Mahler's 'Fünf Rückertlieder, no. 4 (with text by poet Friedrich Rückert). SEE BELOW FOR LYRICS.
Sir John Barbirolli
Hallé Orchestra
Recorded in 1967
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'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'
(Fünf Rückertlieder, no. 4)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,
Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben,
Sie hat so lange nichts von mir vernommen,
Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben!
Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen,
Ob sie mich für gestorben hält,
Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen,
Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt.
Ich bin gestorben dem Weltgetümmel,
Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet!
Ich leb' allein in meinem Himmel,
In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied!
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!
It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.
I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!
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French Impressionist composer, Claude Debussy - Aug. 22, 1862 - 1918…
Watercolour of Debussy by Paul Robier (Musee de la Musique, Paris, France)
Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
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Celebrating the great American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein: Aug. 15, 1918 - 1990…
Leonard Bernstein: To What You Said (text by Walt Whitman) - from his cantata Songfest
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I like Uncle Tupelo and Wilco - so happy birthday Jeff Tweedy (44 today)…
Jeff Tweedy by Chris Strong
Uncle Tupelo "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down"
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Lester ‘Prez’ Young - Aug. 27, 1909 - 1959 - American jazz saxophonist and hepcat generator of a lot of new language…
Known for his cool, sophisticated tone, as well as for his collaboration with Billie Holiday…
Photo: Herman Leonard

… and for his pork pie hat…
Photo of Prez without Prez: Herman Leonard
Lester Young - Love me or leave me
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Alice Coltrane - August 27, 1937 – 2007 - jazz and world musician…
Photo of Alice and John Coltrane searching for that chord, 1965
Alice Coltrane - Hare Krishna
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Jack Kerouac: Charlie Parker
- Charlie Parker looked like Buddha
- Charlie Parker, who recently died
- Laughing at a juggler on the TV
- After weeks of strain and sickness,
- Was called the Perfect Musician.
- And his expression on his face
- Was as calm, beautiful, and profound
- As the image of the Buddha
- Represented in the East, the lidded eyes
- The expression that says “All Is Well”
- This was what Charlie Parker
- Said when he played, All is Well.
- You had the feeling of early-in-the-morning
- Like a hermit’s joy, or
- Like the perfect cry of some wild gang
- At a jam session,
- “Wail, Wop”
- Charlie burst his lungs to reach the speed
- Of what the speedsters wanted
- And what they wanted
- Was his eternal Slowdown.
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Charlie Parker - Summertime

Dinah Washington sings "Only A Moment Ago"
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Bach 's Chaconne for Solo Violin / Itzhak Perlman (Part 1/2)
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Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (Original Version)
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