Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, Ciaccona (Chaconne) from his 12 Sonate per violino e basso continuo (1701). Performed by Ensemble Giardino di Delizie (2019).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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The Romantics - What I Like About You

NJBob said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Romantics - What I Like About You

I remember that one.

Here's a short (half hour) piece by Marin Marais: La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie (1723). I hadn't heard it before, but saw it in the list of works by Marais in Wikipedia and looked it up on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

3 Dog Night
Play something sweet(brickyard blues)
https://youtu.be/YyChmkPKi0I?f...

I'm currently listening to Claudio Merulo's Toccate d'Intavolatura d'Organo, Libro primo (1598). Merulo was a major influence on later music for the organ, especially in Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yesterday, my mom showed me James Taylor. Has a similar sound to John Denver, but I still prefer Denver.

David_in_KS said: I'm currently listening to Claudio Merulo's Toccate d'Intavolatura d'Organo, Libro primo (1598). Merulo was a major influence on later music for the organ, especially in Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Started to listen to this, I really like it. I'll have to finish it later today.

I never got very fond of Taylor. No real reason.
Denver has grown on me later in life.

Closing the evening by listening to an album of music by Steve Reich. It includes two works, Runner (2016) and Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sun and moon songs for eclipse day! The event we went to at a park had a Pink Floyd cover band, played Dark Side of the Moon.
The DJ before the band played sun and moon themed songs, use your imagination, I am exhausted and can't remember any at the moment. Except Moon River.

Here's a short piano piece by Gustave Samazeuilh, Naiades, au soir... (1910).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Another fairly short piano piece, by Erik Satie: Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel (1894).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's some fairly smooth jazz by The Yussef Dayes Experience, Live in Malibu (2023).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I just started listening to Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco (1842). I've listened to other Verdi operas in the past, but this is a first listen to Nabucco.

The opera is not a straightforward retelling of the stories about Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible-- the main character is a composite of Nebuchadnezzar II, Nabonidus, and Cyrus the Great. So it's fiction riffing off of Biblical themes. It was important to the original audience because they associated the condition of Italy with the Babylonian captivity of the Jews.

This version was recorded live in 2017 at the Metropolitan Opera, with James Levine directing and Placido Domingo in the lead role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Very interesting, Dave, never heard of that one. I'll have to check it out!

Ashra, "Morgana Da Capo" from Correlations (1978).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey - Prove It On Me Blues

Wikipedia just listed Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers) as deceased as of today. He was 80. Cancer and COPD.

Blur, "Brothers and Sisters", from Think Tank (2003).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...