Bobby McFerrin - Air, by JS Bach

[ellyssian]

As I mentioned yesterday, Bobby McFerrin has been delving deeper into classical music since his partnership with Yo-Yo Ma on Hush.

In this video he not only performs the wordless vocal part, as he did with Yo-Yo - on the album track Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 (MP3) - he also conducts the chamber orchestra:

For those who enjoy hearing McFerrin perform with an orchestra, I highly recommend Paper Music, with McFerrin conducting the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. They perform works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Tchaikovsky, Faure, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, in addition to a Bach piece. The performance of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 - without vocals - ranks right up there with performances I've heard by Marriner and the ASMitF.

Comments

[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

into classical music since his partnership with Yo-Yo Ma

Oddly, I dreamed last night that Yo-yo Ma was in my Grandmother's house, practicing for a concert in her foyer, at 5 am. This seemed perfectly normal to me in the dream. So I sat ontop of a 747 piltoed by xzaxza. o.0

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Is xzaxza licensed to fly commercial aircraft, or is that an added risk? =)