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Please go to the list from September 19th and choose what musicians you'd most like to hear for the Big 9-9 thru 2-10 summary!

Choose one or choose more than one, I don't care. Then LEAVE A COMMENT at this post, and tell me which one/ones you picked! Comments here are FREE. NO CHARGE-Y. Not like some of those other blogs are! Also, you don't need a Google©®™€₤$¥ account and you can be as anonymous as you like. Trolling and spamming are encouraged. If there's a musician that you want to hear who is not on the list (but who should be), tell me IN A COMMENT.  :D  A comment To THIS post  :D  Or to that other post, I don't care... the one that has the list on it.  I can figure it out. Please also comment in any language you wish. I don't care.

Just Checking In: AUSTIN LIVEBLOG = 2011-09-22

As you can see, everybody's having a great time here in the Live Music Capitol of the Local Group of Galaxies. Snapped this one with my iPhone and uploaded it on the go. Well, sorry... love to talk about it more, but I'm being whisked away to yet another show, and then a party, and another show, and then two band practices, and another party, and then 3 more shows, and a show. Then everybody will be headed by to the practice space to practice some more before the big show tonight, followed by the big after-show party, which will be a whirlwind of activity! Then it's back to the practice space to unload all the shit, and then everybody usually practices some more, because, you know, you're already at the practice space anyway. Then one more show, and we're done. Make sure we GET PAID. Then back to the practice space to unload all the shit again, and then you sit down (not for very long, maybe about 20 minutes - okay, sometimes it's more like 30) and you make a new set list together, as a band. Everything has to be very democrat. Then it's just one more quick run-through of the new set list, before doing just that one last little 3-song open mic at the local hipster coffee house. Then everybody goes home and goes to bed... hehehehehe... just as soon as that one last party is over. Then ya get up and ya do it again the next day. It's not a bad life, really. The worst part about it is all those hours of down-time when you're just waiting for somebody else to get their shit together... thank God I brought my iPod !

ANNOUNCEMENT: Blog Will Be In Suspended Animation, 2011-09-19 thru 2011-09-26

As I said in my previous post, I'll be out of town for about a week, so there won't be any activity around here. In my next post, probably on September 27th, I'll begin a 5- or 6-day roundup of all the days we haven't covered up until now, featuring just the most prominent musicians from all those days. Here are 114 musicians, some of whom you can expect to read about in those posts:

Al Jackson, Jr., Alfredo Kraus, Alicia de Larrocha, André Hazes, Anton Bruckner, Arrow, Arthur Ferrante, Baden Powell, Béla Bartók, Bessie Smith, Betty Carter, Bill Evans, Bill Monroe, Bola de Nieve, Bourvil, Boz Burrell, Bruce Palmer, Cecil Gray, Cheb Hasni, Christian Ferras, Chuck Rio, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Cliff Burton, Cootie Williams, Dane Rudhyar, DJ Mehdi, Duarte Lobo, Eddie Fisher, Emmanuel Chabrier, Engelbert Humperdinck (the composer, not the singer), Erich Leinsdorf, Etta Baker, Farinelli, Francesco Geminiani, François Couperin, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Fritz Busch, Furry Lewis, Gene Autry, Gerald Finzi, Gilles Binchois, Gram Parsons, Harry Warren, Hazel Scott, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Hernando de Cabezón, Hildegard von Bingen, Ian Stuart Donaldson, Irving Berlin, Isaac Stern, Jaco Pastorius, Jacques Levy, Jan DeGaetani, Jan Werner Danielsen, Jean Françaix, Jean Sibelius, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jim Croce, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy McCulloch, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Zawinul, Johann Strauss I, John Blow, John Bonham, John McCormack, Johnny Cash, Johnny Ramone, Jule Styne, Leonard Feather, Mahendra Kapoor, Marc Bolan, Maria Callas, Mary Ford, Mary Travers, Maurice Abravanel, Mauricio Kagel, Max Bruch, Miles Davis, Nick Reynolds, Nikos Skalkottas, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Pablo de Sarasate, Paul Weston, Pauline Julien, Pepsi Tate, Pérez Prado, Peter Bellamy, Peter Tosh, Rafael Mendez, Richard Wright, Robbie McIntosh, Robert Casadesus, Robert Palmer, Roc Raida, Ronnie Dawson, Ronnie Hazlehurst, Rory Storm, Shawn Lane, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Skeeter Davis, Slim Dusty, Stanley Turrentine, Stig Anderson, Tino Rossi, Toma Zdravković, Urmas Alender, Víctor Jara, Vincenzo Bellini, Virgil Thomson, Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Walter Trampler, William Billings, Zeki Müren, and Zino Francescatti.

If all goes as planned, then by the time October 2nd or 3rd rolls around, I should at last be caught up! And then I'll begin again, this time devoting my daily posts to mainly the most notable musicians, with just a few of the more obscure ones mixed in to make things a little more interesting. Until I return, I want to thank all of you from...

Österreich
বাংলাদেশ 
Canada
Chile

Danmark

Suomi

France

Deutschland
Ελλάδα

香港

Magyarország

ভাৰত / ভারত / भारत / ભારત / ಭಾರತ,ಇ೦ಡಿಯಾ / ഭാരതം, ഇന്ത്യ / ਭਾਰਤ / भारतम् / ڀارت، / இந்தியா / భారత / దేశము / بھارت

Moldova

にほん / 日本

Pilipinas

România

Россия
Türkiye
Rìoghachd Aonaichte
ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻia

... who've stopped by to check out the blog and see what it's all about. I've only just gotten started, and there's much more to come in the future, so stay tuned! Seriously, invest in a good digital tuner. If you're off by even a श्रुति, you could ruin the whole রাগ.

09-08: More Moondog 1956 | Story of Moondog 1957 - Gesualdo Madrigals / Christie - Alex North Spartacus 1960 - Beethoven Missa Solemnis Toscanini 1940 - Strauss Elektra Kleiber 1971

1613 – Don Carlo Gesualdo (Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer & murderer of his wife & her lover)
1637 – Robert Fludd (English mystic & doctor, debater with Johannes Kepler over harmonic theory of universe)
1706 – Romanus Weichlein (Austrian monk & composer)
1819 – Franz Stanislaus Spindler (German singer & composer)
1831 – John Aitken (Scottish-born American music publisher, silversmith, goldsmith & jeweler)
1838 – Pietro Rovelli (Italian violinist & composer)
1871 – Étienne-Joseph Soubre (Belgian composer)
1879 – Nikolai Zaremba (Russian music theorist & composer, teacher of Tchaikovsky)
1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz (German physician, physicist, psychologist & acoustician)
1899 – Václav Hugo Zavrtal (Czech conductor, composer & collector of Mozartiana)
1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder (German composer, conductor & pianist)
1917 – Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (French composer, pupil of Gounod, son of painter Charles Lefebvre)
1944 – Jan van Gilse (Dutch composer, conductor, pianist & organizer on behalf of Dutch composers)
1949 – Richard Strauss (German composer & conductor)
1960 – Jussi Björling (Swedish tenor)
1974 – Wolfgang Windgassen (German operatic Heldentenor)
1976 – Assen Karastoyanov (Bulgarian composer, conductor, teacher & writer on music)
1976 – Joaquín Zamacois i Soler (Chilean-born Spanish composer, teacher & writer on music)
1977 – Zero Mostel (American actor of stage, screen & musical theater)
1978 – Pancho Vladigerov (Bulgarian composer, teacher & pianist)
1984 – René Bernier (Belgian composer & teacher)
1991 – Jo Budie (Dutch Schlager orchestra leader)
1991 – Alex North (American soundtrack & stage composer)
1995 – Erich Kunz (Austrian operatic bass-baritone)
1997 – Derek Taylor (English journalist, writer, publicist & press officer for The Beatles)
1999 – Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin] (American composer, street musician, poet & instrument inventor)

Well... I'm really sorry. I'm now 8 days behind. I really would need at least 2 or 3 other people working on this blog with me to be able to keep up with it the way I want to. Perhaps that will happen one day, but in the meantime, I'll have to make some changes around here. In the future, I'm going to be limiting my lists to just the most prominent figures on any given day - I hate to set an exact limit, but it will probably be in the area of 12 to 18 persons at the very most. It's kind of a shame, because I think some of the more obscure figures often have the most interesting stories surrounding them, but it really can't be helped. Further, the number of downloads will be curtailed a bit as well, to probably no more than 3 or 4 per day.

There's also something else. I'm going to be going out of town for about a week, so this blog will be on hiatus for about 8 or 9 days. When I return, probably on September 27th, I'll be doing a roundup of all the days up to that point that haven't been covered, i.e., Sep. 9th thru 26th - a period of 18 days! I'll be choosing just the very most famous musicians from each day - no more than 2 or 3 for any given day - it'll be a big post, possibly in several parts. Either tomorrow or the day after I'll be devoting a post specifically to an announcement of the hiatus...

So anyway... some very important musicians for September 8th. Two notable Bulgarian composers, curiously enough... perhaps the passings of Мистър Karastoyanov and Мистър Vladigerov had something to do with the a little overindulgence on September 6th, Unification Day, which marks the ceding of Eastern Rumelia to Bulgaria in 1885? In any case, among the truly famous musicians on our list is Moondog, the Viking of 6th Avenue, an eccentric street musician and an icon in the world of "outsider music," a kindred spirit, in a way, to both Harry Partch and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, also building his own instruments as they did - and doing so blind, as Kirk did - who managed to get married, land a record deal on Prestige, and become a famous musician with an impressive cult following, all while he was intentionally living as a homeless man on the streets of New York City. He's a legend who continues to inspire to this very day... (Read more below)

Then there's Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, a composer of many madrigals and a fair amount of sacred music, who employed very daring chromaticism in his later works (which has attracted the interest of many 20th-century musicians, especially Igor Stravinsky), and who was also the most infamous murderer in music history (unless you count Charles Manson as a musician). Gesualdo suspected his first wife of infidelity, and managed to catch her and the Duke of Andria in the act, after having pretended to go away on a journey. With the help of his servants, he stabbed them both numerous times with both knives and swords, and shot the Duke in the head. Afterward, he displayed their mutilated bodies outside his palace, with the Duke given the further humiliation of being dressed in Signora Gesualdo's nightgown. Gesualdo, being a nobleman, was immune from prosecution for his crimes, but he kept a crew of bodyguards around him for the remainder of his life to protect him from any revenge the families of his victims might seek. Interesting... Cecil Gray and Philip Heseltine (a.k.a Peter Warlock) wrote a book in 1926 called Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa, in which they detailed the police reports from the time, which make for gruesome reading even today. And guess what, Cecil Gray's deathday is just one day after Gesualdo's, on September 9th... (Read more below) ... see you on the other side of the crime scene ribbon...