Music Quotations for Saturday, July 4, 2009

 

Today's Youtube.com Music Video - features the music of John Phillip Sousa, as played by the New York Philiharmonic, conducted by the late Leonard Bernstein.

Music News:

A Life in Pop - An interactive timeline of the life and career of Michael Jackson.

Symphony of the City The Make Music festival overtakes New York.

‘You Don’t Wait for the Muse to Hit You’ Film composer Harry Gregson-Williams knows how to serve each movie’s story.

 

Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson: 'We made history together'

 

Karen Geoghegan - French Bassoon Works (Chandos Records)

by Julie Amacher, Minnesota Public Radio

The many voices of the bassoon

Fans around the world mourn Michael Jackson

U.S. soprano, Ukrainian pianist win $50,000

Stanley Drucker Video Tribute by ABC News

A Guitarist Who Plays Like Two

 

This Week's Music Quotes:

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett, who is widely considered to be one of the best singers of the past two centuries, is an American icon who saw his career decline in the 70’s with the advent of rock and roll. Keeping true to his repertoire of popular and jazz standards, however, Bennett staged a successful comeback in the 90’s, expanding his audience to a younger generation and singing with popular artists such as Christina Aguilera, Sheryl Crow and k.d. lang. (Lower case as she prefers.) Frank Sinatra once said of Bennett, “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”

“My record royalties right now are four times stronger than when I was the Madonna of my day, ... Now it’s over the top. I mean the records, they all hold up through the years.”

 

“The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.”

 - Tony Bennett (1926- )

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In the early 1990’s, Danny Bennett, Tony Bennett’s eldest son and manager revitalized his father’s career by having him perform to much younger audiences including ‘Late Night with David Letterman on NBC’. The younger Bennett said:

“It wasn’t like everybody did that show.”  “He asked me, ‘Would Frank do this?’  Nope, and that’s the point.”

-   Danny Bennett

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