(2023-08-17, 08:28 AM)Typoz Wrote: Cue-point is set to 14:47, Gymnopédie No. 1.
That's a very familiar piece; I feel like I've heard it recently, and fairly often, but I can't remember where - maybe in a soundtrack; maybe as on-hold music; maybe somewhere else. The Legacy section of the Wikipedia article on the piece doesn't list anything that seems to be a plausible candidate. Hmm.
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(2023-08-19, 11:01 AM)Laird Wrote: That's a very familiar piece; I feel like I've heard it recently, and fairly often, but I can't remember where - maybe in a soundtrack; maybe as on-hold music; maybe somewhere else. The Legacy section of the Wikipedia article on the piece doesn't list anything that seems to be a plausible candidate. Hmm.
In my own case I later realised that the reason this music was in my head was because there is a version on cello and other strings at the start of a video entitled "Dr. Bruce Greyson and the Paradox of the Near-Death Experience". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQTIpNqSVQ
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'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
Quote:That's the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn't really know what the song was. I remember that my mother had liked it.
Then I was in Edmonton, which is one of our largest northern cities, and there was a snowstorm and I found myself in a vestibule with two young hitchhiking women who didn't have a place to stay. I invited them back to my little hotel room and there was a big double bed and they went to sleep in it immediately.
They were exhausted by the storm and the cold. And I sat in this stuffed chair inside the window beside the Saskatchewan River. And while they were sleeping I wrote the lyrics. And that never happened to me before. And I think it must be wonderful to be that kind of writer. It must be wonderful.
Because I just wrote the lines with a few revisions and when they awakened I sang it to them. And it has never happened to me like that before. Or since.
Cover by Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
A live version:
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