Just watching a good concert while working on my blog, surrounded by my family. I love their music and their performance is great!

Anyway, tonight I'm going to have a look at other blogs and give coments on the music choices of others.

@ Living the Music of Jochem:
He chose Stop This Train of John Mayer as one of his favorite songs. I liked that because I like that song as well and listen to it especially when I want to relax of when I am tired. I love the simplicity of it, though it makes you stop with what you are doing and forces you to listen to it, amazing. John Mayer is a fantastic musician and will always have a place in my music heart.

@ Music and Me of Jelle:
OMG, one of Jelle's favorite songs is as well All At Sea from Jamie Cullum. Finally somebody who shares my love for Jamie Cullum. I'm so exited! This song is so hard to explain. For me it brings up a lot of memories. He is just such a great artist, all his songs are beautiful. And gues what, tomorrow I get his new album, I've been waiting for so long!

@ Music Makes Me Loose Control of Marije:
When I listened to Marije's favorite song "Heaven" by Quintino I was completely surpised. I did not exect a house number. This is absolutley not my music taste. I can only appreciate it when I hear it at a disco or a party, I can't force myself to listen to it. This kind of music goes not deep enough for me it has no body. What you hear is a couple of computer made tunes which keep repeting...

@ Music is the soul of language of Julie:
I listened to the song Breathe Today-Flyleaf. I know this band but this song was unfamiliar to me. The singer of Flyleaf has a very good voice and together with the band they made music I like but does not really reach me within, I don't get warm from it. The other songs I know from them I like more, but it is OK.

@ Music, the God of Sound of Coen:
The Script with Break Even. Handsome singer, haha, always good! Nice beat, good voice. I like it and never heard it before. I am definitley going to listen to it more often. How it builds op is very nice and I agree with coen that it has a very good atmoshpere... Nice Coen!

Bye Bloggers!

I LOVE CONCERTS!

Hey there bloggers,

I had such a bussy week, not only due to the homework I had to make but also due to the concerts I've been too.

Thursday I went with my father and a friend of his to a jazz jam session at Café Dudok in Hilversum. The atmoshpere was great, really amazing, and the music was good! It is every two week, for now, until Christmas. So please come, have a drink and play along or just have a listen (like me)!
Jazz Hilversum, Café Dudok, every other week on Thursday.

The following day I went to the coolest concert I've ever been to! I went to see Green Day, my favorite punk/rock band, in Ahoy Rotterdam with a friend. AAAAAH, even two days after it I am still exited! The concert started at 20.10 and we arrived only 10 minutes before due to the traffic around Rotterdam. The scenery was very nice and they had a lot of fireworks. But mostly the humor and the fantastic music made that night a night to remeber for me. My friend and I just couldn't stop singing and jumping, laughing during the whole thing. Wauw, I never expected it to be so good! During the concert I had been waiting to hear my favorite song: When September Ends, but they did not play it! After two encores Billy Joe Armstrong finally played it aucoustic on his own in the middle of the stage. That was the best moment of the concert. That is what I meant with songs that bring memories back, When September Ends always remebers me of my friends in Italy, we used to sing it together.

Well guys, see you next time!

xoxo,

Stella

Great songs

Hello bloggers!

The last two weeks during music class we have been playing the song; funkytown. I enjoyed doing this, even though it did not sound perfect yet! When I told my mother about the song, she was very enthousiastic. That song was played all over the world in the disco's when she was young and it reminded her of these old times. I find it so cool that there are songs which remind you of things of you really love to listen to. Of course I also have a couple of songs I really can't stop listening to, for example Here Is Everything of Chiara Civello, an Italian singer. Her music makes me feel happy and think the fantastic summers I always have with my family and friends in Italy. But I don't think that songs always have to make you feel happy, Jeff Buckley is an artist who can make me cry. Last Goodbye, Grace and Halleluja are absolutly my favorites. Another Italian artist who's music I appreciate is Tiziano Ferro, his most beautiful song is Non Me Lo So Spiegare.

It was a few years ago that I discovered Jamie Cullum, the music he makes it according to my opinion, the best combination between pop and jazz. The song All at Sea is another song which intriguets me, the composition just before the chorus gives me a feeling I can't describe, that good is it. There is still one artists I didn't mention. She is called Anais Mitchell and isn't famous at all. When my father brought her cd home he already knew I would love it. Her voice has a exceptional sound, but what I love the most are the lyrics of her songs. It are protest songs which come from very deep. They make me think and want to hear them over and over.

Here are the links to the songs I mentioned in this message; enjoy!

Orion - Anais Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExtKyvOhC8&feature=related

Here is everything - Chiara Civello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCX1GuzHmA&feature=PlayList&p=4EF4EFFEAB50A22B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

All at Sea -Jamie Cullum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUscn6VPfXc

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ

Grace - Jeff Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNsgbIWhAQ

Non Me Lo So Spiegare - Tiziano Ferro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIZo65qUNTU


xxx Stella

PS: I am very curiouse about what you think about them.

Why do we need to have music in the world?

When I was a little girl I loved to go to my fathers room to music. He wrote for the music magazine OOR and therefore had a large cd collection. Sometimes when I sad there watching him work, he put on a cd and asked my opinion about it. A lot of times I did not know what to say and came with a very "adult" sesponce, at least I thought it seemed adult. My father loved and still loves metal, we listened a lot to this type of music. Back then it was not my kind of music. That is not strange for a four years old, I prefered K3. Of course throughout the years my music taste changed. With the age of eight I started with my first fluit lesson. I loved to go to the music school and have fun playing with my teacher and peer student, but practicing was something I did not like to do. I resisted for two more years util I decided to stop. I still loved to listen to music, but playing fluit was just not my idea of making music. What came out of that fluit of mine did not even sound like music.

When I asked my parents to try another instrument they agreed. I already knew what I would loved to try; the piano. When we thought we had found a good teacher I started the lessons. That women is still the most nervous person I have ever met. After a year I gave up, she just could not motivate my to play this wonderful instrument. Luckily we found another teacher, she was a nice blond haired women who lives near to my house. For more than four years I go to music lessons at her place and I really enjoy it. But what she teaches me is classical music, I never learned how to use chords and blues of jazz. That is why I looked for another teacher who would give me, next to her classical lessons, jazz and blues lessons. Two weeks ago I started those lessons and I really enjoy it, I practice way more!

More about my music experiences another time, for now I whould like to talk about the question: Why do we need music in the world?

My answer is definitly yes! As you read above, music keeps me busy for already my entire life. I would never have been able to express my feelings without listening or playing music. Music reminds me of the time in which I went to my father's room or when I played the fluit. It is a piece out of my life and I think that I speak for everybody in the world. I certain that everybody has a certain song, maybe without even knowing it, which reminds them of a very sad or happy period in their lives. Music tells stories and those do not have to be the same for everybody. Without music, the world would be a grey place.

xoxo,

Stella

Welcome

Dear classmates,
Welcome to my blog! Here you will find all the ins and outs of music in my life. Also upcoming events/concerts/new experiences will be told here. My first "real" message about my music in my life so far will be posted soon.

See you at music class!

xxx,

Stella