A Little Peace

Gentle Friends, a song originally written in protest and just beautiful... 

one of my very favorite pieces...

Finlandia - Jean Sibelius - Sung by Cantus

Here are the lyrics...

This is my song, O God of all the nations

A song of peace, for lands afar and mine

This is my home, the country where my heart is

Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine

But other hearts in other lands are beating

With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean

And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine

But other lands have sunlight too, and clover

And skies are everywhere as blue as mine

Oh hear my song, thou God of all the nations

A song of peace for their and for mine

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Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Rabbit Hole...............

Gentle Friends, so being stuck at home and behind a computer all day... I find myself often wondering onto YouTube and then down I go... another rabbit hole of music.... here something lovely from the Utah Symphony...

Symphony No. 5, 4th movement Finale, Ludwig van Beethoven... Enjoy!!

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Stay Safe!

Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!

edgar

A Little Winter

Gentle Friends, on this first day of Winter I thought it appropriate for some more music... and Vivaldi's "Winter" tops the list....  this is a lovely version, enjoy!!

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There you go sports fans, thanks for stopping by, only one more day in this short week!!

Take care,

edgar

"No Count Sarah" - 1958

Gentle Friends, the post title refers to one of the most wonderful Studio albums ever put out by the incomparable Sarah Vaughn.  On this particular album is one of my all-time favorite songs, and I thought I would leave off the week with a little music........

...  the song is "Moonlight in Vermont" - published in 1944.  It has been a favorite song of mine for years and years and I have dozens of covers of it from many different artists.  I think Sarah's version is one of the best there is or probably ever will be.....  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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There you go something lovely to listen to going into the weekend....  

Thanks for stopping by do stop again!

Take care,

edgar

Feeling all Nostalgic

GR&DF Wednesday welcomes to the Blog. Not much going on this mid-week morning. The weather is hovering in the mid 50's and will stay like this for the next 7 or so days - a real SF summer. Not much stitching so no snaps of that.

This morning, before leaving for work, Rico was on his Facebook page - I don't have one of those. Blogging is about all I can do on a sort of daily thing. While he was on there he was playing some You Tube video - The Bangles - "Walk like an Egyptian" and that got me thinking about all the music I liked a bazillion years ago.... the first to come to mind was this.....



I was such a Blondie fan - had all the records - remember them?? I would play them over and over -

Here is another great song from my High School Daze - a live version that had a silly video.....



I remember that I took this song and built an entire presentation around it for Photography Class - ah good tymes!!!!

I think I will throw this in for those that might have forgotten the great silly videos of the 80's - and the song that started this walk down memory lane




There you go sports fans - some silly music from long ago!! Have a great one!

Take care,
edgar