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Quote for the day:

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

― Victor Hugo

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On This Day:

On this day in 1964, The Beatles made chart history by holding the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100. They are:

#1: "Can't Buy Me Love"
#2: "Twist and Shout"
#3: "She Loves You"
#4: "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
#5: "Please Please Me"

You can read about it here.

Source: billboard.com

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On This Day:

On this day in 1939, Motown legend Marvin Gaye was born. He was one of the great voices of Motown. His music and distinctive voice will be loved for generations.

You can learn more about him here.

Here are a couple of his many hit songs. You can listen by clicking the titles here:
 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and this classic with fellow Motown artist, the late Tammi Terrell, "You're All I Need to Get By".
                                                  

Arts and Culture : Graduation Day at the Barbican

Hi everyone, and a very Happy Saturday to you all.

I'm REALLY excited today, as I'm graduating this afternoon after four wonderful years of study!  I live in the far west of England, but chose to graduate at the Barbican in London, as I'm from London originally, my close family still live there, and it makes for a great day out.  A weekend away is always a bonus, too.  I remember going to a classical music concert at the Barbican when my husband and I were first dating, but that was years ago (Okay, not that long!), and I hadn't realised what a fascinating place it is.  I thought it might be interesting to show you a little about it, and, if you like, they have a dedicated YouTube channel where you can watch more of what goes on there.

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Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
 

On This Day:

 

On this day in 1967 the Beatles’ single, ‘Penny Lane’ went to number 1 in the U.S.

 

(from: http://www.historyorb.com)

 

Have a listen via YouTube here.  

Sanctuary - Music

Welcome to the Sanctuary.  Today I'd like to share some beautiful music from YouTube with you.  I've been looking for a track that emanates peace and a sense of escape, but I didn't realise how long it would take me to choose the 'right piece' to share.  As a result, after hours and hours of listening (oh what bliss...), I couldn't decide!  So, here are three of the pieces that really shouted out to me.  Why not let me know what you think in the comments section below, or tell me which piece of music represents Sanctuary to you?

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Val      

Hello there.  Today Dori and I are launching the ‘Creative Maze’ – you know, that monster I hinted at yesterday that has gobbled up our alternate Friday challenge posts?  This ‘monster’ evolved through one of our many Skype meets, where we were discussing our challenges and the way we deal with and present them to you.  We felt you might get bored if our individual challenges didn’t show any major progress, and that updating every two weeks didn’t allow enough time for either of us to make any great leaps forward.  Now, this isn’t a cop-out and we’re not shutting down our challenges.  We’re just going to extend the time between our challenge posts, and we think it will be better to update you with our piano/knitting progress in a joint post once a month on the last Friday of the month from now on.  You can see we’ve kicked this off today with an update from both of us. 

I’ve uploaded two new videos to our Labyrinthus XXI YouTube channel – one of me playing a simple tune (but one I couldn’t have played before this challenge), and one of my daughter playing ‘Arriety’s song’, a really pretty piece of music.  She’s only been playing for three years, and I hope I can learn to play as well as she does.  You can watch the embedded videos at the end of this post, or view through YouTube, if you like.

Musical Selection - Earth Prelude

Merry Christmas

SEASON'S GREETINGS

 

FROM

VAL AND DORI

 

 

Video courtesy of The Piano Guys ~ "Angels We Have Heard on High"