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Author: wjk
Date: 2005-07-09 19:57
I finally got a portable DVD player---I'm curious what others favorite DVDs are. I did get Kleiber directing Beethoven, a documentary about the Berlin Philharmonic, and a documentary about Mahler's third symphony.
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2005-07-09 22:27
>>>I finally got a portable DVD player---
For those of us already suffering with new technology, can you tell us what it actually does?
Is it simply a small DVD player that you can plug into any tv, one with a screen attached, or used the same way as a music CD?
Steve
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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-07-09 22:32
A portable dvd player is almost the same as a dvd player but it's a lot smaller, has a screen attached to it and you can take it on planes and stuff!
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2005-07-09 22:40
So a bit like a laptop computer?
Are they expensive?
-Thinking of ways to keep the kids quiet on long journeys!
Steve
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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-07-10 00:55
Yeah, exactly like a laptop computer. It depends the quality of the brand and etc of the portable dvd player, for a decent one the minimum price would probably be around $1000, well actually I'm not exactly sure check at a local electronics store.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-07-10 01:14
Steve - I saw a Portable DVD player at Target which was only $239 and had 2 screens (one for each headrest in the car). Each screen was around 7 inches.
Got pretty loud too!
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Author: wjk
Date: 2005-07-10 02:25
Actually the kids monopolize the TV and its attached DVD player. I figured a portable DVD player would let me listen to my Beethoven DVD in peace!
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-07-10 03:31
The music on Chocolat is wonderful. I bought the sound track CD and was so dissapointed that the Sidney Bechet tracks were omitted. Get the DVD, and get the wonderful sounds of the sopo sax (ok, this is the clarinet BB; and the soprano sax is just a coarse-sounding, limited range imposter.)
Bob Phillips
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-07-10 03:43
The Terminal! Great movie, WONDERFUL music (John Williams, Emily Bernstein featured on clarinet). Wow, great! You'll love it-at least the music on it!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-07-10 13:09
"DeLovely".....great Cole Porter stuff
Bob Draznik
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-07-10 16:19
There are some nice music DVD's out there, too.
The Sound of Jazz - 1957 CBS TV show with Count Basie, Monk, Pee Wee Russell, Vic Dickenson, Coleman Hawkins & Red Allen, Jimmy Guiffre and Billie Holiday. Check out Billie singing Fine & Mellow with myriad mega-name soloists.
Last of the Blue Devils - 1979 reunion of Kansas City musicians at their old union hall. Lots of the County Basie band with Jimmy Forrest, Big Joe Turner, and Jay McShann.
Jazz Scene USA - 1962 TV series with Oscar Brown, Jr. hosting. My favorite DVD has two programs. First is the Cannonball Adderly Sextet with Yusef Lateef, and second is the Teddy Edwards Sextet.
Roy Rogers also can make for some nice musical relaxation. I have a 2-DVD set from Wal-Mart which includes Heldorado, The Bells of Rosarita, Hands Across the Border, Under Nevada Skies, and some others. "The Lights of Old Santa Fe" is a particularly good one musically speaking, and frequently shows up in the cheapo bins as a single.
Gene Autry in "Oh Susanna" features about 20 minutes straight of music by the Light Crust Doughboys. "The Old Corral" is sold in Kroger grocery stores, and features the Sons of the Pioneers and an premonition from Smiley Burnette that our Broadway folks would definitely appreciate.
More clarinet-specific items might include:
Benny Goodman - Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
Benny Goodman - Farewell (live concert in Copenhagen, 1981?)
Beyond Silence - German w/subtitles. Features Giora Feidman. A very nice calypso number of two clarinets is featured.
Allen Cole
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-07-10 18:28
"Light Crust Doughboys. "...sponsored by Leaf Brand Lard. Frog wrote one of the few songs that made the Smithsonian. ,,,:"Ridin' Down The Canyon".
Bob Draznik
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Author: Camanda
Date: 2005-07-11 00:25
Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
The Eagles Farewell I Tour: Life from Melbourne
These are my only music DVDs, but that's because I'm picky. These are very, very good. Harry Connick Jr. and Ellis Marsalis do a great four-handed "Caravan" on the Marsalis DVD.
Amanda Cournoyer
URI Clarinet Ensemble, Bass Clarinet
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-07-11 06:24
Yes, Bob, I do enjoy "Ridin' Down the Canyon" and play it regularly, in fact.
In fact, I've been keeping my eyes open for actual clarinet playing in some of these things. Heard a little bit with a band in "Sunset Serenade" with Roy Rogers. Have seen it more frequently used as a prop, but am hoping to find some more things like Woody Wood's work with the Texas Playboys.
Allen Cole
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Author: ned
Date: 2005-07-11 09:39
That picture of Kenny G...........................it's obviously been rotated by 90 degrees!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-07-11 11:04
It's interesting to speculate just why we don't encounter clarinets in "cowboy" music. Certainly guitars are more difficult to lug around on horses. Perhaps it was the Spanish influence. Sorry to hedge your post wjk but I've got so many music dvds it's hard to recall them. If you are really interested email me direct and I'll give you the whole listing.
Bob Draznik
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-07-11 15:27
But we DO encounter clarinets in 'cowboy' music, and thus much of my enjoyment of this genre in DVD viewing. In the onscreen bands, I've seen them used more than any other wind instrument. (trumpet comes a close second) In a few movies, like Sunset Serenade, I"m lucky enough to hear some actual playing. In others, like Billy the Kid Returns, it's a prop in a comedy number.
In fact, my own affiliation with the genre started with a cowboy singer actually asking around where he could find a clarinet player. He lent me some recent recordings by Don Edwards that had some very nice clarinet playing.
The reason why we do encounter clarinets is because much western music is jazz influenced, just like the Light Crust Doughboys and their alumnus Bob Wills. Jazzier stuff fit in well with with the era of the B-movie, and the clarinet is a good choice to work with--or substitute for--the fiddle.
As far as authentic cowboy music goes...probably not much clarinet there, but then there's not a ton of it in those movies, either.
Allen Cole
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