Sunday, September 29, 2024

The Weekend's Not Quite Over, So, Weekend Steam III! William's Grove 2024!

 Thanks, Merle! This is a great video you found!

If You Can't Grind It, Squeeze It!

      Back To The Old Grind!

Mike Rowe: Food For Thought!

 This is well worth listening to. Going carnivore makes your excess weight disappear so easily that it seems like magic.

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

 We are getting drenched now. The dogs are having no fun!

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Yard Critters

 This video has no excitement, just some curiosity satisfaction. I wanted to see what critter is using this hole on the pond bank, so I set up a trail camera for a day. It is always good to know your neighbors.

Monday, September 23, 2024

Tuesday Torque II: 1933 Pietenpol Air Camper!

 That is a big hunk of iron on the front of this little plane!

Tuesday Torque: Lanz Bulldog 2-Stroke Oddity

Many Thanks, Merle! I would love to have a Bulldog! 




Bonus Bulldog!



 

Vivaldi, Autumn

 


The full version of Vivaldi's Autumn, performed on original instruments by the award winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Carla Moore, solo baroque violin. 4K video from our December, 2018, concerto program.
Please subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/VoicesofMusic... All Four Seasons now online!    • Vivaldi Four Seasons: complete, origi...   For the Four Season, Vivaldi created four different styles of composition for each season. In Autumn, the composer uses a complex, dual ritornello form with the thematic material shared by the soloist. In addition, there are some "surround sound" effects to imitate the sound of the hunters, as short themes are rapidly exchanged across the sound stage. To show the interplay of the soloist and the ripieno, we filmed using ultra wideangle lenses with "deep stage" focus that renders all of the performers clearly. Other innovative compositional elements include moving the rhapsodic adagio for solo violin into the first movement, then providing a second adagio for harpsichord as the middle movement with muted strings. A pianissimo ending concludes the rollicking third movement. The subtitles in this video were written 300 years ago in the form of a sonnet, presumably by Vivaldi, and engraved directly onto the music. You may view the original Italian or an English translation by using the CC button. For this video, a new edition was prepared from the original sources, prints and manuscripts for Vivaldi's music. In Vivaldi's original engraved score, the title is given as the older, Latin word Autumno, not the Italian Autunno. However, in the Manchester partbooks the title is given as Autunno, so we have chosen the more common spelling. You can see the original engraving on IMSLP: https://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP12643... Visit us on the web at https://voicesofmusic.org/ Carla Moore plays an 18th century violin by Johann Georg Thir, Vienna, Austria, 1754, one of only a few violins in the world to have remained completely in its original, unaltered form. In the 19th and 20th centuries, almost all baroque violins were modernized which dramatically changes the sound: this is the original sound. The unusual harpsichord solo in the second movement is improvised and performed by Hanneke van Proosdij. Ms van Proosdij plays a harpsichord based on Bartolomeo Cristofori made by Joop Klinkhamer. 0:00 I. Allegro 5:32 II. Adagio molto 7:42 III. Allegro 
11:40 Credits "