[Jung Roe]

It’s so nice to go back to watch some of the 2023 Advent Livestreams, and spend time with Mona and Lisa and the MLT Community, and re-experience all that groovy love and cheer again.

[Jung Roe]

No never had the fortune to see Paul or Ringo live. I would love to see a Paul McCartney concert, that would be pretty incredible. It would be like when I saw the Beach Boys live in my teens. Hey, there they are, Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al and Bruce. I’m in the same place with these guys, they are real!!!! My heroes.

[Jung Roe]

I wish I was older, so I could have experienced the Beatles debut in America on the Ed Sullivan show. My first memory of the Beatles, was a documentary on TV later in the 60s showing the pre-recorded Beatles in Shea Stadium concert. My brother told us this is the Beatles! And we watched noticing the screams from the excited fans was drowning out the music.

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Hi Jurgen

Thanks for reading that article. Yes, it interests me not for the sake of digging up dirt on Mozart, or sensationalizing it, but rather for doing justice to his sister’s amazing talent, by bringing evidence to the light of day that might suggest the truth about Maria Anne Mozart, AKA Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart, the sibling Wolfgang Amadeus idolized as a child for her musical genius.

In that same article Professor Martin Jarvis also uncovered things about Bach’s wife too. Will leave that one for another time. Makes you wonder how many other great woman composers were muted because of the gender biases of the times, and their genius expressed under the name of one of the male composers of the time, because that was the only way.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Daryl

For me too, “Let It Be” is my #1 favourite Beatles song, and top fave in the all time list too. It felt like something medieval from hundreds of years ago, and then later I discovered it was the Beatles. The same for Here Comes The Sun, Something, The Long and Winding Road, Ticket To Ride…sounded so wonderful to learn wow these are all by one band, the Beatles!

[Jung Roe]

Hi Tim

I know what you mean, with loss, music is the greatest consoler. Bob Marley said “music can calm the agitations of the soul”.

Yeah, I never got into heavy metal really. Groups like Metallica and others I could never get into, but AC/DC is a unique genre unto itself. The guitar work is just hypnotic, like none other. It wasn’t their lyrics which were at times juvenile, but the guitar sounds that drew me in, it was amazing. Angus Young in an interview attributed their guitar style inspiration to Chuck Berry. AC/DC certainly calmed my early 20s agitated soul when I needed it. I’ve said this many times, but AC/DC and Bach are not that far apart really in the instrumental realm.

Here is a video of the Beach Boys performing “Long Tall Texan”. Brian Wilson was in his top form then, he looked like the anchor of the group with his great vocals and the highs. The song was a cover they did, written by a Country musician Henry Strezelecki who worked with Chet Atkins, that became a hit for the Beach Boys.

Edit: Tim, I see you found the video. 👍🙂

[Jung Roe]

Hi Tim

My older brother who is 8 years older than me had quite the vinyl collection, I got to indulge in. He had quite a diverse taste in music from his biggest hero Jimi Hendricks, Beatles, Stones, Who, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin, Al Stewart and on and on. My other brother who is 3 years older than me was into the big Canadian rockers like BTO and Guess Who. He formed a rock band in high school and used to play a lot of BTO stuff in the basement. “Taking Care of Business” was big. My older sisters albums consisted of a variety too including Carpenters, Abba, Barbara Streisand and others.

I could never get my head around the appeal of Jimi Hendricks at first in my early teens, until one day I started listening to his Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” album. That album was in essence my gateway to the rest of rock and roll. On my dad’s big hifi stereo it sounded so wonderful. After really getting into “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, and “The Machine”, wow I could appreciate those amazing electric guitar howling sounds, then suddenly Hendricks started to sound nice, along with many other harder rock songs with amazing electric guitar sounds. “Wish You Were Here” was so beautiful. Later in high school I befriended a kid who liked Santana, and then later AC/DC, and my musical palette sort of expanded from there. But the Beach Boys and Beatles were my first love, and still is.

My very first vinyl was this one I bought at 16, and then in short order. Pet Sounds…and before I knew it I had a dozen Beach Boys vinyls…and later got into cassettes Kinks, McCartney and Wings, Steve Miller, Eagles, Elton John….My brother’s Blue and Red Beatles compilation albums I listened to a lot too.

Here is my very first album I bought with my own money at 16. My allowance was not big enough prior to then to afford to buy vinyls. It had some great songs that really pulled me into the Beach Boys rabbit hole. HAHAHA.

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Thanks for posting the video about Maria Anne Mozart. It is interesting the musicologist of the Mozarteum foundation insists the interviewer show proper respect and address Mozart’s sister as Maria Anne Mozart, and not Nannerl which is a nickname used by those who knew her personally.

Since that interview in 2020 there has been some additional discoveries that challenge the status quo belief held by the Mozarteum about Maria Anna. For nearly a decade, Darwin academic professor Martin Jarvis studied various documents and letters of Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus, and in 2022 uncovered some startling evidence that Maria Anna did in fact compose brilliant music.

Professor Martin Jarvis and a team of forensic analysts say they have uncovered the musical handwriting of Marie Anne Mozart, elder sibling of her famous brother.
“We have discovered the piece of handwriting DNA, so to speak, that has enabled us for the first time in about 250 years to pinpoint Marie Anne Mozart’s music handwriting,” Professor Jarvis said.
“Initially I thought, well, there’s nothing here, but then I noticed something very strange,” he said.
“Of the five violin concertos, three of them were composed by a person called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and two of them — in a different handwriting — were composed apparently by Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart.”
Professor Jarvis, who founded the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, said his research had led him to believe the signature ‘Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart’ had been written by Mozart’s older sister, nicknamed Nannerl.

Darwin professor suggests Mozart claimed credit for some of his sister’s compositions

I think in fairness to Mozart’s genius, it was more a case of Maria Anne Mozart chose to have her work published under her brother’s name because at that time, “women were not supposed to be composers”. It was not a case of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart trying to take credit for his sisters talent, he was a brilliant genius in his own right. It doesn’t take away from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s genius and brilliance as a composer.

I love the story of the sibling bond that existed between Maria Anne and Wolfgang that fueled their creativity and innovation. They were close and kept in touch through many letters over the years. Unfortunately in the last few years before Wolfgang’s death, they lost touch for some reason know one knows.

abc.net.au

Mozart claimed credit for concertos written by his sister, suggests Darwin academic

A Darwin academic says he has found evidence that suggests one of the greatest composers of all time claimed credit for some of his older sister's work. 

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen, that organ and the sounds playing it is beautiful. It shows how the organ operates with the air baffles. Those big church organs are built similarly it looks like, except the air bag is hidden behind the walls.

I came across some very interesting instruments from the 18th Century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sisters harpsichord and piano survive today, and here they perform one of Mozart’s pieces on it.

https://youtu.be/srPQnFwZJxo?si=8hHKZ1xT7heFKJl0

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Hi Thorsten,

I saw this video by Rick the day it was posted, and I think what he said is right on. It is time travel, and I think John would be happy it was released.

When I hear the melody, it is so hauntingly beautiful and gets inside you, and pulls at your heart strings, that only a handful of composers in all of music history could pull off like that. The simple melody is absolutely amazing. The Beatles magic lives on in this song.

[Jung Roe]

Thank you Jurgen, I will, 🙂 and the Tteok Guuk was great. Last year was my year, year of the Rabbit. Apparently it works out that you turn 60 on your year.

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Thank you Daryl for the kind words, it’s amazing people like you who make the Club so wonderful. The Club really attracts remarkable people, and that is obviously because MLT are so remarkable.

When I first discovered MLT, social media was really foreign to me. I used the internet mostly for work, shopping, and internet banking, and the occasional youtube video. I created my Facebook page years before with one post on it, because someone I knew wanted to send me a picture or something via Facebook, but it was in order to subscribe to and follow MLT that I joined Instagram, Youtube, Twitter (now X), and activated my Facebook. I did not even know what a re-tweet or hashtag was and what it did. A real social media rookie. I still haven’t figured out how to get notifications from Facebook or Youtube to me, it got blocked somehow because we use Google at work, and they blocked it on my account.

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Your uncle Ross is funny, Tim! 😁

It’s great having older siblings, you get to benefit from their music. It’s really great having Youtube to be able to dig up all these archive concerts videos so easily nowadays. Before internet, if you were really lucky you could capture a TV broadcast of a pre-recorded concert, but they were rare, and an event in themselves. You were certainly into some great rock bands in the 70s. I will always be a fan too.

I remember in the 70s in my early teens as rock/pop music got on my curious radar, heard a lot of great music my older siblings would play, or I would hear on the radio, or hear kids play on their ghetto blasters outside of school or in the hallways. Often I would hear a new song that just sounded wonderful, and more often than not it turns out to be a Beatles song. Here Comes the Sun, wow who is that? It seemed they had a monopoly on all the good music!

[Jung Roe]

Hi Jurgen

Today is the big Seollal day for me here in Canada. Going to enjoy my traditional rice cake soup ( Tteuk Gook) now.

[Jung Roe]

Hey Jurgen, thanks for posting this. Yes Seollal is the biggest holiday in Korea, similar to Christmas. For me it is a day my parents always held special and it was always a tradition to have rice cake soup (Tteok Gguk). it’s amazing all the variety of wonderful things you can create with rice cake (tteok).

Hearing a westerner speaking Korean always fascinates me, it’s uncanny how they just suddenly feel closer like family. It’s amazing what language can do, especially your mother tongue. While I by far am more prolific with English, having spoken Korean first as a baby with my parents, when someone who is not Korean speaks it, it feels so much more intimate. Thanks for thinking of me. 🙂