Happy Independence Day

To all our American friends in the US or expats, to all the immigrants from all over the world, to all those who love or hate the US, Happy Independence Day to the greatest nation on Earth.

enjoy some fireworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bmpFCwZbwM 

Do you like Baroque music, Novita?
Here's my favorite by Handel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAd3NpDi6Q

Bach, Vivaldi and Handel are the most noted.
Here are a couple of lesser known French Baroque composers:
Les Baricades Misterieuses – F. Couperin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYZgMZ-BuFU
On harpsichord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZXzuIsxb64

Rameau – Les Paladins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frpd5f0VUvo
Sort of a modern dance meets LSD.
My favorite part is the "Air" 2:33 until 3:50. This performance is a little faster than what I am used to.

Rameau – Les Indes galantes. Les Sauvages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zegtH-acXE
Not a big opera fan but I like this.
Maybe it is the Native American in me.
The French idea of the Buffalo dance?

 Giss and Nu  this song for you in fourth of july day

Man in the Box 4th of July
Thanks, hakimi.

Did you go to his party?
How did you do in the wiener eating contest?
Was cornholing fun?
The song?
We won our freedom from the British back in 1878?
I think he drank his way through history class.

I love any kind of classical music, Nu Pogodi! Including Renaissance and Baroque music. Thanks for sharing these lovely pieces of music! I love Händel's "Sarabande", too.

This is one of my favourite pieces of Baroque music:

The first movement from "The Winter" from "The four Seasons" by Vivaldi played by Anne Sophie Mutter (Violin). Shudders run all over my body when I listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDRoDercCNA 

This is my answer to Couperin's "Baricades":

This is "La Cascade" by Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651) played by Hopkinson Smith (11-course lute). This piece was a model for Couperin's "Baricades":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmnq7IqtCA

I love ancient instruments like lute or tiorba because of their soft, dim but resonant sound!

This is my favourite singer Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano) from Sweden singing "Ombra mai fu" from "Xerxes" by Händel. Her voice is just awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x17dTbTOCW4&feature=PlayList&p=113B85C4CD18585D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29 

"Lamento d'Arianna" by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVasTFjG1k

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) played by the German Freiburg Baroque Orchestra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9qWpa2rIg

Enjoy listening!