Best posts made by J. Jericho

@ssmith1226 This brings tears of joy to my eyes every time I hear it.

I heard this in my head enough times lately to revisit it on YT. I love the concert band version because it features the trumpet so nicely. And it brings back warm memories of when I first played/heard it so long ago....

@administrator Beats me. Could be both.

I'm going to listen to the philharmonic symphony orchestra, where I expect to never be exposed to the compositions of John Cage.

@barliman2001 You saved the best for last. Interesting coincidence (sort of): I watched it last Thursday. It's been my favorite for years.

@SSmith1226 A friend of mine in college used to laugh his ass off (pun intended) listening to this.

@ssmith1226 Not bad....

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I would substitute Vincent Bach's Hungarian Melodies for one of the above (I have one in particular in mind).

Here's a very nice performance:

In case you want to play along, try this:

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

The trick to photography is to pick good subject matter and click, am I right?

In photography framing the image in a way that transcends the subject into an image that evokes an emotional and/or cerebral response makes the difference between a photo/snapshot and something more. Choice of lighting, juxtaposition, and color or grayscale balance/contrast contribute to the impact of the image as well.

In the past, when photographers developed film instead of using a digital format, it was fairly routine to manipulate parts of or all of the image to suit the goal of the artist, and there were those who continued this process with programs such as PhotoShop, but the most evocative images today involve setting up the shot so that none of this is necessary.

So they got together like oil and water....

My wife's cousin was Salutatorian in her class, but she has the common sense of a chipmunk... and she graduated from college over 40 years ago.

The drummer's not too bad, either.

@flugelgirl said in Vintage Bach Club:

Funny how no one is shaming fat old men in speedos.......
Really, though - what’s the problem with old ladies with tattoos? I intend to be one eventually, and feel zero shame about it.

How about any men in Speedos? If it ain't worth looking at, cover it up! Packaging can do wonders for visual appeal.

I'm not a fan of skin tattoos. To my eye they reduce whatever appeal there was to the human form. As for other tattoos...

@adc It's been quite a while since we've heard from you. Welcome back!

Playing in all keys becomes less of a challenge with repetition. Perhaps you could reserve 5 minutes of your practice time for addressing something that seems daunting, and use the rest of your time for what you're comfortable with. Eventually you'll absorb what once was difficult, and you'll move on to the next challenge. At the risk of sounding corny, I'd say don't bite off more than you can chew, but keep nibbling at something new.

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Some of you might appreciate a little southern comfort Art.
This is a scene I painted from a friend's great photo of a South Carolina inlet, somewhere on or near Hilton Head Island. By the way, I was unhappy with the first version and did it over. This is the new version.

Beautiful. It reminds me of the Florida Highwaymen.

@SSmith1226 Inspired by your post, I found another interesting essay about Louis Armstrong. Remembering his birthday, August 4, here it is:
https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-louis-armstrong