From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #116 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, July 23 2008 Volume 2008 : Number 116 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Death and Funeral music [David Eoll ] re: joni songs for special occasions [Catherine McKay ] Re: Death and Funeral music [David Eoll ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:09:35 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: Death and Funeral music > From: Russell Bowden > Subject: Death and Funeral music > > Gang, > > Easy one....Refuge of the Roads, Gently, Lord, Oh Gently Lead Us (a > capella....the Boston Camerata) and Mozart's Horn Concerto in Eb Major K. 495 > 2nd Movement..if this doesn't do it to you, nothing will. > > Love from sticky Maine, > Russ Obviously, Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, 3rd Movement. Anytime someone dies in a cartoon, that's what you hear. Actually, I credit Looney Tunes (and the MGM cartoons like Tom&Jerry) with my initial exposure to classical music, and jazz for that matter. The really neat thing about those old cartoons is that the whole cartoon would be scored for full orchestra, even alot of the sound effects. It worked out brilliantly, I think. Carl Stalling was a great musician. Cartoons of that caliber have not been made since about 1952 or so, IMHO. Songs To Aging Children Come, mainly because it was played at the hippie funeral in the movie Alice's Restaurant. Anyone know who that was playing it? That was actually my introduction to the song, I didn't know it was a Joni Mitchell song when I first saw the movie. Death of Aase from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, 2nd Movement Allegretto. I will forever be reminded of Susan Gabree when I hear this piece of music. Susan was a woman I took care of in a group home I worked at in the 90s. Susan was deaf and was also diagnosed as mentally retarded, but we all knew better. She was sharp as a tack, although she usually didn't let on. Call it playing dumb. It was learned behavior, the term commonly used in the business was "institutionally retarded". She was really, really f*cked up from being institutionalized for decades, since she was a teenager, in Danvers State Mental Hospital. She was in her late 50s when I knew her. She endured horrible, horrible abuse while at Danvers, including rape, and I'm sure all kinds of other f*cked up Nurse Ratched sh*t. I'm getting a teensy bit choked up, and angry, just thinking about it now after all these years. Anyway, I was quite fond of her, even though she made it really hard to be fond of her sometimes. She actually threw a chair at me my second day on the job, bless her heart. :) I never held stuff like that against her, she had full-blown PTSD from the crap she went through at Danvers. I was on my way to work one morning, and this movement from the 7th Symphony was playing in my head. And I mean it was playing note for note, over and over until I got to work. As soon as I got there, one of my co-workers took me aside and told me that Susan had dropped dead from a heart attack earlier that morning. So I think of this piece as Susan's dirge. Thelonius Monk, Memories of You. I first heard this on an album called Standards. I was listening to it at home, my parent's house at the time, and I was hanging out with my dog, Sandy. The family dog. I was in the third grade when we got her as a puppy and she was pushing 15 at the time I'm talking about. For some reason, listening that music, and looking at Sandy, it suddenly struck me that she would not be around much longer. She had had a rough winter and we thought she wasn't going to make it, but she rallied that summer. She had a good summer. But, summer was drawing to a close, and she was showing her age again. 15 years is oooold for a dog her size (collie mix). Anyway, we had to put her down that October when she went into kidney failure. It was like losing a family member. She was, hands down, the best dog I've ever known. Fairport Convention, Farewell, Farewell. The song was penned by Richard Thompson who had just lost his girlfriend in the same car wreck that claimed the band's drummer. I have to believe the song and the tragedy are connected, but I'm just guessing. Sandy Denny sings beautifully in this one. He Was A Friend Of Mine. Traditional folk song played by everybody even tangentially connected with folk/rock in the 60s. He Was My Brother. Written and sung by Paul Simon and published on S&G's first album and also on the Songbook. The song is about Paul's friend and college roommate civil-rights activist Andrew Goodman, who, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, was gunned down by racist a$$holes in Neshoba Co. Mississippi in 1964. That's all I can think of for now. Peace, David PS I'm sorry for your loss, Patti. I was just walking in a nearby graveyard with my son, and we saw three sets of markers for old couples who died within months of eachother. Its somewhat common, I hear. One couple died 3 days apart, in the late 1700s. (Its an old cemetery.) PPS I almost forgot Mozart's Requiem. The whole thing is about death isn't it? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:04:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: re: joni songs for special occasions Oh peachy keen and hunky-dorey, of course, as always. Thank you for asking! - --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Mags wrote: hey cat, i like your choice for hejira as a funeral song. how's tings in trawna? mags~nificent ;-PPP ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Death and Funeral music Tigger Outlaw. And that was her ONLY claim to fame. They wanted Joni to sing it, of course, but they also wanted her to relinquish the rights to the song or something like that. She politely declined. Yours truly, The Veritable Fount NP: U2, "Another Time, Another Place" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:28:05 -0400 From: David Eoll Subject: Re: Death and Funeral music Bob, Of course you knew that. We love you. You know that, too, right? :) Love, David Bob Muller wrote: > funeral in the movie Alice's Restaurant. Anyone know who that was > playing it?> > Tigger Outlaw. And that was her ONLY claim to fame. They wanted Joni to sing it, of course, but they also wanted her to relinquish the rights to the song or something like that. She politely declined. > Yours truly, > The Veritable Fount > NP: U2, "Another Time, Another Place" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2008 #116 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe