Argetina - Gliding in the 5th Dimension - 3,000 km in a glider DVD...

RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is used at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you. grin

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some baroque.

So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)

Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you. grin

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

On Jul 16, 8:21 am, Nyal Williams
wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you. grin

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:

RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

Anyone who has seen Tom Valentine's short film on soaring knows that
James Taylor's Slipping Away has very nice music and some lyrics (but
not all) that are a good match to soaring!
SP AM

Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:
OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.

So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)

Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you.

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

On Jul 16, 1:18?pm, Nyal Williams
wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:



OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.

So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)

Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you.

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Impressionistic is TOO ...well..dreamy (Debussy). Not sure about
quartets, either. Wagner, Mahler, or Holst would do much
better.........after all, I too am a professional musician. Funny how
the right brained are drawn to the sport.

As for a Euphonium (or baritone as my students are inclined to call
the instrument), depends on the style. I can just imagine ol/ Phillip
Wills racing off to the sounds of an English brass factory band.

Gary
GE8

wrote:
On Jul 16, 1:18?pm, Nyal Williams
wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:



OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.
So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)
Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!
Now, there's a troll for you.
At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,
I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.
I am trying to figure out who did the music at is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.
Oscar Alonso- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -

Impressionistic is TOO ...well..dreamy (Debussy). Not sure about
quartets, either. Wagner, Mahler, or Holst would do much
better

snip

Yikes!

Ancient classics just don't work for me over videos of glider flight.
How about Joe Satriani's "Ice Nine" or The Vince Guaraldi Trio's
"Skating" from A Charlie Brown Christmas? Or any number of Philip
Glass* compositions? Brian Eno? C'mon I mean "Music for Airports"!
I'd even take Blur's "Song 2" (cough) before something written by some
fossil born before aviation ;-)


Shawn


*You other music geeky types might appreciate:
http://www.philipglass.com/html/pages/jokes.html

Impressionistic is TOO ...well..dreamy (Debussy). Not sure about
quartets, either. Wagner, Mahler, or Holst would do much
better.........after all, I too am a professional musician. Funny how
the right brained are drawn to the sport.

As for a Euphonium (or baritone as my students are inclined to call
the instrument), depends on the style. I can just imagine ol/ Phillip
Wills racing off to the sounds of an English brass factory band.

Gary
GE8


Now there's a thought - Williams Fairey Band - something like the "Land of the
Mountain and the Flood" would probably do it.

If we have to have a string quartet maybe the Soweto String Quartet? Certainly
composed recently (post 1992) - even on Wikipedia - although you have to listen
to it to understand. Fusion of African Jazz, Kwela, and traditional tunes
arranged for a string quartet.

Maybe pennywhistle - try Spokes Mashiane. Now that's eclectic, ebullient and
lots of other polysyllabic e- words.

Bruce

Hi Nyal

I know your profession, hence the tease about the Euphonium. (where the USA is
the home of the unique double belled version)

Wikipedia has a good article on them for those who don't know what it is. -
Summary, the brass equivalent of the cello - Conical bored baritone/tenor range
Bb. Far too civilized to be trashy - except when used in marching bands. Tormod
Flaten is a good example of what the instrument can / should do.

I like the romantic era composers, but Vivaldi and Bach are more appropriate to
soaring. "Music which is melodious yet so constructed as to reflect the "perfect
order" of the universe: that is the essence of the baroque."


Nyal Williams wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.

Now, what is this about Wikipedia, and under what should
I look?
(I am a musicologist by profession)

At 16:06 16 July 2007, Bruce wrote:
OK I will bite -
String quartets are nice - but there has to be some
baroque.

So in my books - for gliding musinc - No Euphonium
means maximum score can't
exceed 70%... (look on wikipedia if you have to)

Nyal Williams wrote:
Unless it is a string quartet, it is too trashy to
accompany a glider in flight!

Now, there's a troll for you.

At 13:00 16 July 2007, Oscar S Alonso wrote:
RAS group,

I purchased this DVD from Cumulus Soaring a few weeks
ago. An amazing
flight and DVD, I am very
happy with my purchase.

I am trying to figure out who did the music at is
used
at the end of
the flight during the
landing. Any help would be apreciated.

Oscar Alonso

At 17:24 16 July 2007, Nyal Williams wrote:
Specifically, I would recommend the Debussy quartet.
snip

How about Eric Satie's Gymnopodies (sorry if I spelt
that wrong)? And I feel there must be something appropriate
somewhere in Schubert's works.