BEATLES

& music part 2

MUSIC makes one more intelligent.

Having non vocal classical music quietly in the  background  has been proved to increase IQ of children, and their  concentration on their  work.

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groups and  singers who gave us some  wonderful music.   The  groups and singers that come to mind are Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas, Brian Poole & the Tremeloes, Dave Clark Five, the Searchers, Batchelors, Peter & Gordon, Four Pennies, Rolling Stones, Animals, Manfred Mann, Honeycombs, Manfred Mann, Hermans Hermits, Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black, Kinks, Moody Blues, Seekers, Tom Jones, Unit Four Plus Two,  Hollies, Walker Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Troggs, Monkees, Petula Clark, Englebert Humperdink, Tremeloes Bee Gees, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick & Titch, Mary Hopkin & Marmalade.  There were a  few American groups  as well, particularly the  Beach Boys, Four Tops, Byrds, Sony & Cher, and Roy Orbison.

 Most of these  are now History, and not heard of  now.  But they all produced some great  music.  But very few  had more than three or four hits.   Several of them had hits with Beatles  music, usually written especially for  them.

           Classical Music was what, in  away was what I had been brought to listen too! It was when I had my first own one room flat in Totteneham, North London , in 1968 that I took the step of  listening to classical music, particularly the great and popular pieces by Beethoven  Tchaicoskow, Handal, Schubert, Mozart.  The  piece I most remember was Beethoven’s Emporer Piano concerto, I played it to Dilys when I first started getting to know her.  Along with Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony I believe those two are two of the  three  best ever pieces  of  music.  The third is Bruch’s Violin Concerto no  1.  Those  three have different elements, but unlike (to me) no other  complete work has ALL  its movements that I really enjoy and associate with.   There are plenty of other great classical works that I really  would put in my  top list, but usually I would  not include every movement.  Such as Mozarts Clarinet concert, and his Piano concerto number 21.  There is one  movement in each that are probably the  best classical music around, but I cant really associate  with the  other  movements.  Simialary Elgar’s  Enigma Variations, only Nimrod stands out. 

           I also  like The Gilbert & Sullivan Comic Operettas,  well not only the  great  music by Sullivan  but the  words by Gilbert, so full of  puns!   Then there are great musicals too like Rodgers & Hammerstein’s great shows.  But the  greatest of all  such shows was I think “West Side Story” ( Music: Leonard Bernstein,
Book: Arthur Laurents,  Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim,  Choreography: Jerome Robbins)