Trini
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Post by Trini on May 13, 2013 12:14:08 GMT -6
I hope that one of these days Emily will include booklets with her CDs that tell the backstories of all of the songs, since they're all so fascinating...most of them so because the inspiration was so simple! I got some of this information from a friend of mine who went to Emily's concert at the Coronado!
Northern Lights: A book from the Magic Treehouse series about the Arctic; a picture of the Aurora Borealis Blue Note: Unknown Diversity: Unknown; title of CD because there are so many different genres of music on the CD Hot Peppers: Composed for her grandmother, who apparently takes red pepper flakes EVERYWHERE. Alika: Composed for someone very special to Emily; not known who Peralada: Composed in Peralada, Spain; suite containing three parts written between the ages of 6 and 9 Jessie's Song: Composed for Emily's 5 year old cousin Jessie, who asked for a song. Jazz Angles: Unknown Italia: Composed based on the view out of a cottage she and her mother were staying in on top of a hill in the countryside of Assisi, Italy. Salsa Americana: Composed based on Emily's mom making a taco dinner Tutti Cuore: Composed based on the view out the window of a hotel in Italy. Reflections: Unknown Q: Composed by hand (assuming without a keyboard) on a plane while on the way to meet Quincy Jones.
Does anyone else know of any other stories about her compositions?
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Post by eulenspiegel on May 13, 2013 14:20:09 GMT -6
Wasn't Diversity written fior the Dalai Lama? And later used at the Diversity Gala in Vienna? eg. people with diferent abilities, handicaped, but I think she played it also at the Life Ball in Vienna which is an event of the gay right movement.
So it supports Diversity in many ways
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Post by eulenspiegel on May 13, 2013 14:26:36 GMT -6
Quote by Dalai Lama:
Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed.Deep down there is no difference.
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Post by Don on May 13, 2013 14:28:53 GMT -6
From the "Love In Us" CD
1. Ellen's Song - for Ellen DeGeneres 2. Thanks - just for the wonderful things around her (Thanksgiving) 3. The Love In Us - unknown 4. Spinata - was written late at night when Emily returned from the 1st appearance on the Ellen show still a mystery on what inspired Emily it just came out. 5. Journey To My Heart - unknown but still one of my favorites 6. Snowdance - Emily watching the snow swirling around the window she was practicing at 7. Piano In The Sky - written on the 54th floor of a friends apartment in Chicago 8. Freestyle - Practicing "Fly Me To The Moon" Emily just went off her own special way 9. Northern Lights - already explained 10. Rosario Sings - for Emily's first piano teacher who sings through the fingers of all his students
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Post by eulenspiegel on May 13, 2013 14:31:15 GMT -6
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Post by Trini on May 13, 2013 18:07:41 GMT -6
Wasn't Diversity written fior the Dalai Lama? And later used at the Diversity Gala in Vienna? eg. people with diferent abilities, handicaped, but I think she played it also at the Life Ball in Vienna which is an event of the gay right movement. So it supports Diversity in many ways That's what I thought, but I don't know what specifically the inspiration for the piece was. The diversity of the international cultures, or something, I guess.
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Post by Trini on May 13, 2013 18:08:47 GMT -6
I want to know the stories behind "Motherlove" (more specific than just "a mother holding her child"), "Out of Control," "Wyndham Court," and "Always True."
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Post by Don on May 13, 2013 19:24:28 GMT -6
I want to know the stories behind "Motherlove" (more specific than just "a mother holding her child"), "Out of Control," "Wyndham Court," and "Always True." A couple years ago Andrea told me where "Wyndham Court" came from but I have to admit I don't remember the details only it was a place in the UK Emily had visited, I googled it and came up with 2 completely different places one was Wyndham Manor a residence for the elderly, this would be my guess.
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Post by eulenspiegel on May 13, 2013 20:26:51 GMT -6
Whats about this???
Wyndham Court, Southampton
In the 20s and 30s, all Modern architects seemed to be infatuated with Ocean Liners. The curves, contours and towers of a Cunard would be adapted into their houses and flats. The Brutalism of the 60s would, on the other hand, appear to have been a rejection of this high seas frippery for something more earthy and urban.
Wyndham Court in Southampton is the world’s only Brutalist Ocean Liner. This block of flats, which looms over Southampton Central Station, throwing the blandness of its surroundings into sharp relief, is – intentionally or not – a tribute to a bygone era of glamour and luxurious transport, fittingly in the very port where the Queen Mary, the Titanic et al made their voyages.
Making buildings symbolise something is something generally associated with the grisly jokiness of the ‘80s, such as Terry Farrell’s TVAM eggcups and so forth. Wyndham Court, though, makes its associations while never seeming anything less than logical. Twin blocks of flats angling themselves around a central public square, with shops at the edges and turrets sticking out strategically, hewn from white-grey, lustrous concrete, the long, jutting forms unmistakably suggest some sort of Corbusian cruise ship.
The building was designed for Southampton City Council from 1966-69 by Lyons Israel Ellis. This firm was one of the first practitioners of the New Brutalism in the 50s, with their non-pissing about Old Vic extension, all exposed concrete and alien flytowers (their other major building, the School of Engineering and Science in New Cavendish Street, also in London, is as startlingly angular as Wyndham Court and well worth a visit). Though originally intended for the more upper-crust council tenant, with rents high to encourage professionals, Wyndham Court seems to have sat either unnoticed or reviled for 30 years, until it was listed in the late 90s to the obligatory cries of horror from the local press.
This is a strange kind of contextual Brutalism, then: practically the first thing one sees on entering the city centre on the train, it evokes a past both glamorous and industrial as well as being unequivocally a monument to hardline modernism. It also suggests a town far more interesting than the overgrown conglomeration of shopping centres it actually is, though being so close to the station one can always pay it the most fleeting of visits.
Wyndham Court photos
More of Owen's Wyndham Court photos
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2013 10:30:52 GMT -6
I know that Emily composed Diversity to Dalai Lama.I can´t find that video anymore but here is one with Emily on a few seconds in the end of the video..
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