Did you know you can make your own musical instruments from vegetables? This guy is amazing!
Researchers have discovered that a brain medication can help adults acquire perfect pitch. Now if only there were a pill that can help us learn to sight read music! Ella Fitzgerald reportedly had perfect pitch Photo: William P. Gottlieb [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Did you know you can make your own musical instruments from vegetables? This guy is amazing!
About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in “Operation Market Garden” in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944-5. Everyone of the men buried in the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even the custom to keep a portrait of “their” American soldier in a place of honor in their home. Annually on “Liberation Day” Memorial Services are held for “the men who died to liberate Holland.” The day concludes with a concert. The final piece is always “IL Silenzio”, a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland’s liberation. It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since.
This year the soloist was a 13 year old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by André Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands). This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
We saw this driving by on Heron Road. Immediately, I got an urge to dilly dally.
This is hilarious! Suggested by Kellina.
Shirley Temple’s version doesn’t include the beginning of the song and has an entirely different middle. (From Pat)