09-19-2016, 12:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2016, 12:33 PM by Eric the Green.)
It's definitely about music; "songs" is just the name I'm using because of the One Direction song. Yes, music illuminates the times in which it was composed.
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball CBE (18 June 1896 – 18 January 1987) was an organist and composer who, though originally from Australia, spent most of his life in Britain.
George Thalben-Ball composed several anthems and organ works, of which the best known is his meditative Elegy for organ, which was played, for example, at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. This piece originated in an improvisation which Thalben-Ball played at the end of a live BBC daily religious service during World War II, when the service finished a couple of minutes earlier than expected. So many listeners to the broadcast telephoned the BBC to ask what the composition was, that he decided to write down his improvisation as well as he could remember it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Thalben-Ball
Bjork "Army of Me" is from 1995, and fits those times. The wiki article says it was well-received by music critics. I receive it well too. Unlike Rags' post, it is at least tangentially related to the current posts on this thread because of the "transportation" question. It would fit on the "lost years" thread as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Me...B6rk_song)
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball CBE (18 June 1896 – 18 January 1987) was an organist and composer who, though originally from Australia, spent most of his life in Britain.
George Thalben-Ball composed several anthems and organ works, of which the best known is his meditative Elegy for organ, which was played, for example, at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. This piece originated in an improvisation which Thalben-Ball played at the end of a live BBC daily religious service during World War II, when the service finished a couple of minutes earlier than expected. So many listeners to the broadcast telephoned the BBC to ask what the composition was, that he decided to write down his improvisation as well as he could remember it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Thalben-Ball
Bjork "Army of Me" is from 1995, and fits those times. The wiki article says it was well-received by music critics. I receive it well too. Unlike Rags' post, it is at least tangentially related to the current posts on this thread because of the "transportation" question. It would fit on the "lost years" thread as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Me...B6rk_song)