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Thread ID: 127142	2012-10-06 04:44:00	Can anybody help me with the name of this oldie tune? Mantovani	BBCmicro (15761)	PC World Chat

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1305457	2012-10-12 00:09:00	A brilliant app! Downloaded the Windows Phone version, and tried it out on 5 different versions of Nella Fantasia. The only artist Soundhound didn't recognise was Gardor Cortes. It correctly identified 3 versions of Nessun Dorma, but lost the plot with its call for Andrea Bocelli when it was really Sarah Brightman! It correctly identified Bach's Toccata and Fugue in F, Adagio in G (Albinoni), and even the more obscure Chopin Piano Concerto #1 in E.	WalOne (4202)
1305458	2012-10-12 00:48:00	Mantovani!!! Ye Gods.	Richard (739)
1305459	2012-10-12 01:32:00	Mantovani!!! Ye Gods. Muzac before Muzac was invented :horrified	WalOne (4202)
1305460	2012-10-12 02:17:00	What a pair of snooties. Mantovani got me interested in classical music when I was a country lad with no musical education, and straw coming out my ears. I know he was smaltz, but I feel grateful to him nonetheless.	John H (8)
1305461	2012-10-12 03:20:00	Fair enough John, I guess. Where are you up to now with your musical education? Have you tried Monteverdi? Look up the Vespers of 1610 on YouTube and see what you think.	Richard (739)
1305462	2012-10-12 04:08:00	Yep; Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Chopin, Handel, Bach, Brahms, Tallis, Elgar, Schubert, Orff, Gorecki are part of my classical taste - my musical education has been along the line of picking up whatever pleases my ears rather than understanding why. I have no idea why something works; I just play whatever I enjoy at the time. You know the old saying about art - I know nothing about art but I know what I like... I have never learned to play an instrument, and I am sure that would have improved things. At high school we had a music teacher who would have nothing to do with anything we liked - The Beatles were the big thing then but he wouldn't respond to our pleas to teach us about something relevant to us. My memory of music education at High School in NZ was being forced to sing stuff like Men of Harlech and Sussex by the Sea (my first caning was in music class, when I laughed at my mate singing Suckit by the Sea - it seemed very unfair because I was caned for laughing and he got away with it). It was a long time after school that I moved on from The Shadows and The Beatles, and Mantovani was a part of that process. Unlike my wife, who regards anything post Mozart as being a waste of space (apart from Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger), I have a very catholic taste in music, so if you looked at what is in my computer or on our CD shelves, you would probably shake your head. I will have a look at Vespers as you suggest - thanks.	John H (8)
1305463	2012-10-12 04:41:00	You can't install it on your PC - it's available as a smartphone app only, for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Can you emulate the android platform on PC?	Agent_24 (57)
1305464	2012-10-12 04:54:00	Mantovani!!! Ye Gods. Yes yes yes I know. But it's not James Last. I wanted a tune that was representative of the era in the so-called easy listening genre. (background to slides of the period) This tune (Adios) is quite good for the purpose, don't you think? I remember at the time how we rubbished Mantovani but he turned out quite good compared with what came next (in the muzak genre). We also rubbished Billy Graham but he too was followed by MUCH worse - idiots that make Billy Graham quite respectable now. You could say the same about Bill Clinton	BBCmicro (15761)
1305465	2012-10-12 05:39:00	What a pair of snooties Moi? My musical education has been along the line of picking up whatever pleases my ears rather than understanding why. I have no idea why something works; I just play whatever I enjoy at the time. You know the old saying about art - I know nothing about art but I know what I like... Now that's moi. I have a catholic "ear" for music that will last, that dictates to what I listen. It does not include passing one hit wonders, gangsta rap, heavy metal, boy bands, et al. "Et al" also includes boy bands like Il Divo and all those who sing in Italian because it sounds pseudo-sophisticated. But it's not James Last. (my emphasis) Not quite but not too far removed. I must say both played a good part in bringing musical appreciation to the mass market. And those in trapped in elevators. :D	WalOne (4202)
1305466	2012-10-12 06:44:00	"But it's not James Last." :) For me in the late 1950s and 60s we had Connie Francis, Elvis, Michael Holliday, Lloyd Price, and later on the Beatles - in the popular category and in the easy listening category: Leroy Anderson (Blue Tango, Sleigh Ride) Russ Conway and Winifred Atwell Gil Dech (Robin's Return, Remembrance) Bert Kaempfert (Wonderland by Night, Swinging Safari) Billy Vaughn (Silvery Moon) and later Horst Jankowski (Walk in the Black Forest) Classical music started (in the 70s) with: Waldo de los Rios (Mozart 40, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) Mason Williams (Classical Gas) (with its Wagner tubas!) Walter-or-was-it-Wendy Carlos (Switched on Bach)	BBCmicro (15761)
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