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| Register for an account if you're new around here.Like is a trademark of iLike.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.Ships from and sold by Amazon.Want it delivered Thursday, January 3?See all 45 customer reviews...Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?To hear a song sample, click on "Listen" by that sample.Visit our audio help page for more information.Appalachia Waltz is filled with highly lyrical string passages, a homage or two to Copland, and plenty of tracks where Meyer's bass vamps with the best of them.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.See all 293 customer reviews...Two Grammys: A Fitting Tribute!!!Two Grammy Awards (Producer Of The Year, Classical for Steven Epstein; and Best Classical Crossover Album) are a fitting tribute to this outstanding album by three of the most gifted string players and their distinguished guest artists.Dvorak, Gershwin and Copland, and even Stephen Foster himself, who freely borrowed from various folk traditions.The addition of James Taylor and Alison Krauss is a stroke of genius.Their voices blend so well with the string trio that it's listening like a string quartet."Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.The liner notes of this album boldy declare, "This is the new face of classical music."This string ensembel makes compellingly beautiful music.The lone exceptions are the traditional "Fisher's Hornpipe," on which Alison Krauss guests on violin, and two Stephen Foster songs: "Hard Times Come Again No More," with James Taylor on guitar and vocal, and "Slumber My Darling," with Krauss on vocal.In addition, Taylor contributes the instrumental "Benjamin" on which he also plays guitar.It is like "the enormous fields of mushrooms found in the American Midwest, which botanists have now determined are in fact a single organism."While there appear to be many diverse influences at work here, maybe the simple truth is that this is all part of a common bond we call music.At any rate, this is an enjoyable and engaging album.Especially in the first song and the last 8 cuts, the album features a rich interplay between violin, bass, and cello, and blends masterfully elements of American folk music, classical, and jazz.Track 2 is a slow rolling country ballad, not very exciting, but the violin solo is effective.James Taylor is in fine voice on Track 3, although, again, no real new ground is broken.It's just a little too mellow and unoriginal.Both tracks 9 and 10 are very satisfying reels, and track 11 builds to a brilliant synthesis of classical and "folk" sounds.Was this review helpful to you?See all 45 customer reviews...Appalachian at it's finest and all topped off by Yo Yo Ma....How to drive Route 88 S from Albany to Binghamton
By putting this CD into the player about 20 minutes into the drive and letting the music contrast and compare itself to the beauty of the countryside.Appalachian Journey CD
This is a really beautiful CD.Published 4 months ago by Anne M.Slumber My Darling will leave you so relaxed you'll have to remember to...Yo Ma at his most boring.Walking the trail
I actually heard this cd while having a root canal done at the dentist's office.Published on August 6, 2005 by M.The music is wonderful, and the performances are memorable.There's a DVD version, which is equally good.It has become one of my favorites and they have included guests such as James Taylor which puts it at the...Published on August 17, 2004 by P.See all 45 customer reviews...Would you dare admit it?Primo Recordings for a RELAXING ROAD TRIP.Greats from the Greatest
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21 days ago by G.Published 10 months ago by Ellen B.Bach Cello Suites (incredible and the visual...Appalachian Journey for my wedding music.The playing is great by Ma and O'Conner for sure, but the bass work is awesome.Published 13 months ago by C.Even if you don't have a cello fetish as I, you can't go wrong with this album.Published 17 months ago by Robia G.This music is a must for all ears...Appalacia Waltz is great!Rhythmically shallenging and delightful.Was Peter Jennings favorite.This a quite a grouping of fine musicians and the disc is well worth purchasing.Whose voice do you love?What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Primo Recordings for a RELAXING ROAD TRIP.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Using your checking account at Amazon.Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.View or change your orders in Your Account.Visit our Help department.Complimentary Edgar Meyer Ringtones.Story last updated at 2:08 p."If you had to describe what we were doing yesterday, how would you describe it as a type of music?"Ma, Meyer and fiddler Mark O'Connor had performed the previous night at the Grand Ole Opry House.They have just released their second collaborative CD, "Appalachian Journey" (Sony Classical).Ma is one of the most famous classical musicians of the modern day.Together, they explore the common ground between classical and American folk music.It is a format that leaves room for dazzling displays of virtuosity, and can take the listener from a pastoral mountain ballad to what seems like breathless jazz improvisation in just moments."Listen to the Storyteller," Edgar Meyer was quick to point out that the producers and the actors who spoke on the album were actually the ones responsible for winning the award.Meyer said in a recent interview.According to Meyer, the music he plays has different overtones depending on the players.And the list of artists with whom Meyer has played is quite long.Yo Ma, Meyer has been called a "chameleon of styles."His father, the late Ed Meyer, resurrected the string instrumental music program for the Oak Ridge schools in the late 1960s.It was under Ed Meyer that Edgar first began studying bass at age 5.Meyer cited living in the community of scientists as one of the reasons that made Oak Ridge a great place in which to grow up.Despite spending about half the year touring, Meyer is still a frequent visitor to Oak Ridge as his mother, Anna Mary Meyer, is an Oak Ridge resident.This is virgin musical territory.The interviewer's answer to Ma's question: "I don't know.""It's hard for us to describe it, too."When the three of you got together, what were you going for musically?Meyer: I don't really specify goals when I set out.Most of the things I do are an exploratory process, and I find a lot of things along the way.Yo and Mark is what I consider starting with a very good hand.But immediately any category diminishes the thing that you're describing.There are several songs on "Appalachian Journey" inspired by children, including a song by James Taylor for his son, and a lullaby sung by Alison Krauss.Music should be generational and communal.You've just built a wall, and it's a protectionist wall.It has nothing to do with the reality of things.But isn't much of commercial music used to express the separation of generations, like rock 'n' roll?Actually, you're diminishing the person who is in receivership of the music.Is there nothing more to you?Meyer: One of the things that's nice about instrumental music is the lack of absolute meaning to it.To open my own mind, first of all.The question that it begs for me is, 'How meaningful is that distinction?Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Join Amazon Prime today.See all 3 customer reviews...Data based on the checkboxed items...Take the 'phone off the hook, close the windows, light the fire, draw the cork, put it on, turn it up (but just a little), relax and listen.You'll drift off, but not asleep...Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Texan, tend to like a country flavour.Not an excessive amount of the "well known folks in the classical world crossing over to other genres" syndrome.Was this review helpful to you?Texas fiddle music, later becoming a top Nashville session musician.Mark's name could be found in the list of credits of hundreds of country music albums released in the eighties.Such was his reputation that Mark could have spent the rest of his working life making a good living that way, but he wanted to make an impact with his own music.He certainly achieved that with this album, where he usually plays the fiddle but he plays the violin (same instrument with a different playing technique) on two tracks and the mandolin (different instrument) on another.The music on this album and Appalachian journey is very different from anything else I've come across.Of the two, I slightly prefer Appalachian journey, but that may be because it has more of a country influence.Was this review helpful to you? |
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