They never seem to get old and never will. And it is a little strange - driving in the car and flicking through radio stations in the second half of December - to find not a single Christmas song. A mild irritation arises: no snow, no good old melody, the festive feeling is lagging behind.
I first heard this song at Linda Leen's Valentine's Day concert last year. It spoke to me, and I think not only to me. So I decided to share the song lyrics for those singing along.
At last year's talent show "China's Got Talent", a 12-year-old Mongolian boy Uudam astonished the audience and jury alike with his resonant voice and a soul-stirring song whose flow is as vast as the Mongolian steppes. After his brilliant performance, other equally successful recordings naturally followed, but for everyone Uudam remained known by this first song.
On the eve of Valentine's Day, a little retro and love. Italian musician Umberto Tozzi's song "Ti amo" - "I love you" - literally enchanted all of Europe and far beyond its borders in 1977. The song was released alongside the others on the album "È nell'aria...ti amo", and the phenomenon of its popularity is remarkable.
Man proposes, God disposes. This evening, on 17 June, a concert had been planned in Vērmanes Garden in support of the gravely ill rock band "Līvi" musician Jānis Grodums, but it became a memorial evening. Lit candles, flowers, the musician's portrait in the light of spotlights, the fateful dates (10.VI.1958. – 15.VI.2010.) and performances by several well-known and lesser-known musicians on stage. Some lit their lighter flames and swayed to the music's rhythm, some hummed along, others dropped donations into a box for establishing a memorial place for the musician, a couple danced, someone shed a tear. Līvi forever alive, weeds never die...
For all fans of the band Rammstein and industrial metal, 4 March of this year is a big day, when their idols will take to the stage right here in Riga with their far-famed pyrotechnics, scandalous stage image, and no less provocative song lyrics. Six men in their prime will do everything to leave the audience with an unforgettable aftertaste and a powerful emotional and quite extraordinary experience. Here I have compiled improvised CVs for each of the Rammstein members, offering a glimpse behind the commercially successful rough stage persona.
The story is about Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite in D major, written between 1717 and 1723 for the court of Prince Leopold of the German region of Köthen. During the composer's lifetime the work did not receive the recognition it deserved. It was reborn only in the 19th century, thanks to a German violinist. I offer you a chance to listen to the work performed by violinist Sarah Chang, who in my view very delicately conveys the message of a genius's soul experiences to the listener.
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A genuinely jolly pub song in Irish rhythms in the Russian tongue. Driving along in the car I happened to tune into the radio - it caught my attention for its catchy rhythm and folk tonality. Back at the computer I typed the lines into a search engine - well of course, the good old Boris Grebenshchikov.
I invite you to listen to a fusion of the good old and the new contemporary - Karel Gott and Bushido "Für immer jung". Many will recognise it as the theme from the hit performed in English by the German pop group Alphaville back in the 1980s - "Forever Young".
An acquaintance of mine once said that the violin is an instrument that can simultaneously be both joyful and sad. In any case, it is an ambiguous instrument. Is there a greater nightmare than scales played on a violin (and played "dirtily" at that)? And is there a greater pleasure than listening to Vivaldi or a Hungarian Rhapsody?