We gave you Tchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1899) and James Joyce Reading from Finnegans Wake. And now, thanks to Robert, we let you listen in on interviews with two other great composers — Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and Béla Bartók (1881–1945) recorded in 1944.
The Crowdsourced Musical Collaboration
This musical bit is easier watched than described. Click through, start the 20 videos playing in any order/timing that you want, and see what you get. You can read the FAQ for the InB b 2.0 project here.
Thanks V for the tip!
Tchaikovsky’s Voice Captured on an Edison Cylinder (1890)
Take a quick trip back in time, to 1890. Here you can listen to Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, etc.) and other eminent musicians having some fun, recording their voices on a then new-fangled technology, the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. To get a transcript of what the friends had to say, you can read the transcript after the jump. Thanks Maggie for this tip. (via BoingBoing)
Stephen Hawking/Carl Sagan Mashup Released as Single
For the past couple of months, A Glorious Dawn, a mashup melding Stephen Hawking’s voice with scenes from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, has been making its way around the blogosphere. Now, on the eve of what would have been Sagan’s 75th birthday (he died in 1996), A Glorious Dawn has been officially released as a single by Third Man Records, the label created by White Stripes singer Jack White. We have posted the video above. You can also download the song in mp3 and other formats here, or buy it as a special 7 inch single (pre-order here).
via Huffington Post and Telegraph.co.uk
Paul McCartney on the Cheap
A quick note: Paul McCartney’s album, Memory Almost Full, is going today for $2.99 on Amazon. Supposedly, it’s just a one day deal, so it seemed worth a mention…
Leading Like the Great Conductors
This comes to us courtesy of TED Talks. Here, Itay Talgam, an Israeli conductor, talks about the art of leading an orchestra and shows the styles of six great 20th-century conductors. Ultimately, there are some general lessons here. Lessons about leadership. Give it a few minutes, and it gets going. Meanwhile, on a related note, you might want to check out Yale’s new open course, Listening to Music, which uses classical musical to make sense of music more generally. Thanks Vickie for the great find.
Free Philip Glass Album (Act Today)
A quick note: Amazon will let you download a Philip Glass sampler that contains 21 tracks. You can get them as mp3s, and they’re all free. But the deal ends (it seems) by the end of the day. So act quickly.
via Lifehacker
Galapagos Rap: 3.5* ’til infinity…
Stanford students head to the Galapagos Islands, then rap about what they’ve learned. Evolutionary rap. What a concept…
Meanwhile, the professor whose voice you hear at the outset, Bill Durham, taught a course in Stanford Continuing Studies (my day job) last year, and we have made it available as a free podcast. It’s called Darwin’s Legacy, and it brought together some of the world’s leading Darwin scholars for the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. You access and learn more about the course here.
via Stanford’s Facebook page
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