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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Catlady

After two lengthy times on hold, which included being disconnected twice, I requested a call back from Amazon, which still hasn't happened, more than two hours later. I did upload a photo through the site, so we'll see what happens.

Dang, what bad luck. My call lasted 15 minutes start to finish.

[BearMountainBooks]

They're out trick or treating. And catlady got the trick...Monkey got the treat!

[GtrsRGr8]

Alexander Street is a company that offers a subscription music (I think that it may all be classical music) service to libraries and, perhaps, to other institutions. I suppose that libaries and maybe other institutions get special discounts and such things, that individual consumers do not, but I don't know exactly how that arrangement works.

Graciously, every two weeks they offer to individuals two or more free music downloads (all from a single album), however, from their popular online music collection, regardless of whether or not the libraries of the individuals subscribe to the collection.

The most recent freebies were announced just a few minutes ago. They are from Lakme, by composer Leo Delibes. It is described as an opera, but I heard no singing (a good thing, in my opinion) in either movement that they're giving away (being unsophisticated as I am, I thought that "opera" implied that there was singing in it).

There are two movements from this opera which are free. One is Act II Entracte and the other is Act II- Ballet des Bayaderes. Should you wish to know more about these two movements, there is a substantial amount of information about the entire opera, on this openmusiclibrary.org webpage, which should be helpful.

Downloading Alexander Street's freebies is easy peasy. Simply navigate to this webpage, click on the blue "download" button and that will take you to a page with links to the two free movements. The files are MP3's.

Oh, I suppose that I should give credit to the performers and conductor of these movements . . . . the Orchestre Symphonique de Radio-Tele-Luxembourg plays the movements under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus.

[Froide]

I missed yesterday's freebie at http://www.emusic.com/dailydownloads/toolbar/main.html

Can anyone tell me the 10/31/2016 song/album/artist selection?

[AnemicOak]

Free rental at Vudu, Amazon, Google, iTunes & possibly elsewhere (I didn't check)...



Before the Flood

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and U.N. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood presents a riveting account of the dramatic changes occurring around the world due to climate change, as well as the actions we as individuals and as a society can take to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.

Vudu

Amazon US

Google Play

iTunes


Note: For any politically related climate change discussions please go to the P&R forum.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Froide

I missed yesterday's freebie at http://www.emusic.com/dailydownloads/toolbar/main.html

Can anyone tell me the 10/31/2016 song/album/artist selection?

Koland posts those every day on her blog. The posts stay up indefinitely. I notice that the item that you are inquiring about is at http://blog.booksontheknob.org/page/2.

[GtrsRGr8]

Piano Concerto No. 1: Romanza, by Frederic Chopin. That's the free piece available today from YourClassical.

This rendition is performed by Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, along with Idil Biret on the piano. Robert Stankovsky is the conductor.

It is 11 minutes, 43 seconds in length. It comes from a Naxos album, Chill with Chopin.

Find out more about the entire album on this Naxos webpage. Unfortunately, Naxos' webpage for reviews for the album has a message that says "there are currently no reviews for this album." That's odd, since the physical release of the album was over 13 years ago. Oh, well, I'll try on the album for tomorrow's freebie.

And, unfortunately, clicking on the "Direct MP3 link" on the webpage for today's free piece has been giving me a "Page not found" error (FYI--The direct link is http://http://download.publicradio.o...016111_128.mp3). YourClassical has been extremely reliable in the 5 or 6 months that I've been posting their free pieces, so I suggest that you check back there later today to see if they've corrected the problem. If it is still not functioning by the end of the day, I suggest that you check the archives here tomorrow and see if it shows up.

The problem could be because of Halloween, and ghosts, goblins, ghouls, etc. having attacked the system. Yes, I know that Halloween's over here, and most everywhere else on the globe, but there may be a slice out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, before the International Date Line, where it is still Monday. ha

[GtrsRGr8]

The M.O. for Classical-music.com:
- One free download per giveaway period.
- You have to have an account to download their freebies.
- The downloads are only (at least that's all that they've been so far) in MP3.
- Once you're logged in, downloading a piece is about as easy as it can get.
- A new free download is offered each Tuesday.

With it being Tuesday, there is a new freebie from Classical-music.com. It is a piano piece, from pianitst Noriko Ogawa, of Satie's Je Te Veux. The blurb:
This week's free download is Satie's Je Te Veux performed by Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa. The recording, on BIS, recieved a 5-star review in September.

'Ogawa convincingly destroys the (alas widespread) belief that Satie's music actually needs puling about for its sly humour and sudden movements of tenderness to make their mark,' writes Roger Nichols. 'In this utterly delightful disc she manages to convey not only Satie's quirkiness, but his honesty.'

Once you're logged in, click on the red "dowload now" button, covering part of the thumbnail image of the album(?) cover, on this webpage. The piece will automatically download to your computer!

It is a pleasant piece but, imho, there is nothing that makes it stand out from other, similar piano pieces. I'm not much of a fan of piano music, though. Still, definitely worth downloading and adding to the classical music play list on on your MP3 player.

[Catlady]

First, a disclaimer--this is not my kind of music! But if you're a Grateful Dead fan (shudder!), their official site offers "30 Days of Dead" every November. Each day of the month an mp3 track is free to download, or at the end of the month you can download the entire month's tracks as a zip file.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Catlady

First, a disclaimer--this is not my kind of music! But if you're a Grateful Dead fan (shudder!), their official site offers "30 Days of Dead" every November. Each day of the month an mp3 track is free to download, or at the end of the month you can download the entire month's tracks as a zip file.

I'm not a Deadhead, either. There is one song of theirs--out of their whole catalog--that I like. The tune is running through my head right now, but I can't recall the name of the song.

FYI--the band (or whoever owns the copyrights) has placed a huge number of their performances on the Internet Archive. They may all be live versions (not my favorite) of their songs, I dunno. Like I said, I'm not a fan, so I don't know much about that.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I'm not a Deadhead, either. There is one song of theirs--out of their whole catalog--that I like. The tune is running through my head right now, but I can't recall the name of the song.

That's one more song than I like from them. I can't stand them. I'd rather have a root canal than to have to listen to any of their songs.

[GtrsRGr8]

UPDATE: I just tried the "Direct MP3 download link" at http://www.yourclassical.org/story/2...o-no-1-romanza, again, and was able to download the file this time. It appears that whatever problem that YourClassical or their source had has now been resolved.

I usually can listen to an entire free piece while I'm writing up my posts, but this piece is nearly 12 minutes long and I didn't have much to write in this update, so I haven't listened to all of it. But, it sounds fine so far. It is one for the piano-lover, however.

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Piano Concerto No. 1: Romanza, by Frederic Chopin. That's the free piece available today from YourClassical.

This rendition is performed by Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, along with Idil Biret on the piano. Robert Stankovsky is the conductor.

It is 11 minutes, 43 seconds in length. It comes from a Naxos album, Chill with Chopin.

Find out more about the entire album on this Naxos webpage. Unfortunately, Naxos' webpage for reviews for the album has a message that says "there are currently no reviews for this album." That's odd, since the physical release of the album was over 13 years ago. Oh, well, I'll try on the album for tomorrow's freebie.

And, unfortunately, clicking on the "Direct MP3 link" on the webpage for today's free piece has been giving me a "Page not found" error (FYI--The direct link is http://http://download.publicradio.o...016111_128.mp3). YourClassical has been extremely reliable in the 5 or 6 months that I've been posting their free pieces, so I suggest that you check back there later today to see if they've corrected the problem. If it is still not functioning by the end of the day, I suggest that you check the archives here tomorrow and see if it shows up.

The problem could be because of Halloween, and ghosts, goblins, ghouls, etc. having attacked the system. Yes, I know that Halloween's over here, and most everywhere else on the globe, but there may be a slice out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, before the International Date Line, where it is still Monday. ha

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

That's one more song than I like from them. I can't stand them. I'd rather have a root canal than to have to listen to any of their songs.

Please don't hold back your true feelings, tubemonkey. Let us know how you really feel. ha

Maybe you would like Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia (inspired by Jerry(?) Garcia of The Grateful Dead) ice cream better.

When have you last had a root canal? They are much gentler and maybe less painful now than the first one that I got, which was in the late 90's. I was at the dentist's office yesterday and hoping that she could do a root canal and save a tooth. It was not to be. I had to have an extraction, instead. It didn't go very well (they said it was an "8" out of "10" ("10" being the worst) as far as difficulty, patient discomfort is concerned). I won't gore you with the details. ha I would have much preferred the root canal and crown route (well, except for the expense. ha)

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I'm not a Deadhead, either. There is one song of theirs--out of their whole catalog--that I like. The tune is running through my head right now, but I can't recall the name of the song.

FYI--the band (or whoever owns the copyrights) has placed a huge number of their performances on the Internet Archive. They may all be live versions (not my favorite) of their songs, I dunno. Like I said, I'm not a fan, so I don't know much about that.

The vast majority of their material is live, not studio recordings. Everything from the annual "30 Days of Dead" is live. The Internet Archive has a lot of their concerts, many of them sound board recordings, so the quality is excellent (there are also a lot of audience recordings of varying quality at Internet Archive).

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

That's one more song than I like from them. I can't stand them. I'd rather have a root canal than to have to listen to any of their songs.

A family member is a Deadhead and not very computer savvy, so every year I have to download this material and burn to discs. I only listen for the few seconds it takes to check the quality of the discs, then immediately go back to my beloved Sinatra songs.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Koland posts those every day on her blog. The posts stay up indefinitely. I notice that the item that you are inquiring about is at http://blog.booksontheknob.org/page/2.

Thank you!