From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #229 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Monday, August 8 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 229 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: The Dawntreader [Anita G ] Re: Top Desert Island Discs - A Case Of You makes no. 93 [Lieve Reckers <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:24:16 +0100 From: Anita G Subject: Re: The Dawntreader Catherine, at the risk of repeating myself (which, of course, over the years I will NEVER have done on JMDL:~)), my own experience of hearing STAS is closely linked with the other music I was playing throughout 68 and 69 which was mainly Debussy. Both Joni and Debussy are two of the great loves of my life that my brother introduced me to. When you say 'The circle is complete..or is it?' you summarised my absolute belief (at thhat time) that Travelogue would be Joni's final album because the Dawntreader, with the orchestration, felt exactly, in my mind, as though Joni's musical journey was complete. I was absolutely convinced there would be no more Joni albums after that because the expression of the songs with their arrangements felt somehow complete. I have to say, I was really glad I was wrong because I felt so sad about it! To go back to the Dawntreader and Debussy, my dear brother Michael was learning to play 'La Cathedrale Engloutie' when I was first listening to STAS. So La Cathedrale Engloutie, in my inner world, goes as hand in hand with the Dawntreader now as it did all those years ago. Both evoke the sea in a way that is so mysterious and magical. The cathedral bells echoing from the depths, Joni's colonies of mermaids.......the seabirds. So much is so similar to me in both pieces of music. When I first hear the Travelogue version of Dawntreader, I was completely overwhelmed, almost as though that time in my life had somehow merged, and that Joni and Debussy had collided. I experienced that as quite extraordinary. Anita > I like your description of it, Anita, as "impressionistic." There is > something about both the language and music that makes me think of > impressionist art and also music from that period: Ravel and Debussy. I'm > not really sure why - it's just my impression! Mwa ha ha! But yeah, Debussy, > and why the hell not? He wrote "Nuages" and Joni wrote "Clouds" and they > played "Nuages" at the beginning of [at least some of] her big-orchestra > concerts that then led to the Travelogue album. And she played "Dawntreader" > with the orchestra too. The circle is complete... Or is it? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:58:29 +0100 (BST) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Re: Top Desert Island Discs - A Case Of You makes no. 93 Hi Joe, good to know the BBC have finally published the further results. I had been wondering where all those details were! Looking at the vast collection of music on the list, even though it's obviously not my own personal selection, I feel I would be quite happy if somehow this were all I had on my ipod in case I was ever stranded on an island. Admittedly there are a few things I would prefer not to hear (so I'd have to put my fingers in my ears and go "lalala" for a few minutes), but I'm surprised by how few of those there are, really. Lieve in showery (but not too bad) London >________________________________ >From: Joe Jones >To: joni@smoe.org >Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2011, 1:09 >Subject: Top Desert Island Discs - A Case Of You makes no. 93 > >Greetings from a rainy St. Asaph. > >The BBC published the Desert Island Discs Top 100 Listener Choices >Chart today. and Joni made the chart. If you remember, she was, >surprisingly to some, the most popular female artist in previous >results / comments from the BBC. > >An article is at: >http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/aug/07/desert-island-100-tracks > >and the chart is at: >http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/about/your-desert-i sland-discs > >Cheers - Joe > >np - Stage Fright - the DCC Gold Todd Rundgren Mixes version - which >is a vast improvement ;-) > >-- >-- >Joe Jones >+44 7831 914094 ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #229 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------