From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #233 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, December 23 2005 Volume 10 : Number 233 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: left and right hand coordination ["Rob McCausland" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:11:33 -0500 From: "Rob McCausland" Subject: RE: left and right hand coordination Also, there's George Winston's album "Linus & Lucy." I have this, as well as his DVD, where he does a terrific version of "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." What a great tune that is - captivated me as a young boy. ~Rob McCausland Below is from Amazon: Linus & Lucy: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi Product Description Amazon.com While Vince Guaraldi's piano playing and composing have had a big influence on George Winston's work, there is little sense of direct imitation in this affecting tribute to the man who composed the memorable music for the television specials based on cartoonist Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts characters. Winston's solo piano style is fuller and more reflective than Guaraldi's, a hearty blend of powerful chords and subdued rhythms. It seems to embrace Guaraldi's tunes, both the Peanuts songs, like the title tune and "You're in Love, Charlie Brown," and Guaraldi's other music, like "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" and "Monterey," which seems to blend somber tones with an almost luminous quality. The warmth, wit, and whimsy here evoke memories of the best work of Guaraldi and Schultz. --Adam Rains - -----Original Message----- From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Leslie O. Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:38 AM To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: left and right hand coordination > Over the years I have tried to play the Peanut's > theme, you know the > one main theme that starts with the left hand on the > piano and then > the right hand part comes in? To me it defines a > master piano player. > It is so hard to coordinate those parts. Mr. White > could do it, but I > never have been able too. "that Peanuts song" is called "Linus and Lucy," LOL. I was thinking the other night, damn, his estate must have made millions off that song! The story was that it was written for a special called Boy Named Charlie Brown that was never aired (before the Christmas show); he composed the song and played the main hook over the phone to Charles Schulz, who completely loved it and for good reason. I really love the song "Peppermint Patty" as well (I think it has an alternate Christmas-related title), it's the one from the famous dancing-kids scene in the show. Great Latin jazz number, catchy as hell and almost ventures into dangerous earworm territory. I do love Vince Guaraldi's work, even though I can never spell his name, haha. My favorite composition of his is not Peanuts- related but "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." Classic! He died far too young and had been underrated for too long, until recently it seems. Google just showed me the official site: http://www.vinceguaraldi.com/ Pretty cool! Now, David Benoit is sort of the official Peanuts pianist; while he does a great job because he's pretty great technically, his playing style seems lighter to me than Guaraldi's and it doesn't appeal to me as much. Guaraldi had, to me in my uneducated musical lack-of-vocabulary, sort of richer-sounding notes, just more full-bodied. :-) Leslie O. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #233 ****************************