...n English Horn (cor anglais). And Sibelius. [sigh] Sorry about all the YouTube videos recently, but we went on a search recently for some great instrument show-off pieces and found quite a few I wanted to share. I'll try to intersperse these with other interesting things, but really. What beats well-played beautiful music?
We ran across this video this weekend and loved it. Although I think it's funny that a trumpet is playing a piece called "Gabriel's Oboe." But whatever. This is a beautiful piece of music, but I decided to post it because the trumpeter is so amazing! Gorgeous, gorgeous tone. Hope you enjoy!
*Note: I realize it is not yet the 10th. I wasn't sure if I would get to posting this later. If you don't want to read it before the 10th, wait a couple of days. :)
In honor of 10/10/10, an article was published in Meridian Magazine. (A very fine online magazine. If you have not subscribed, you might want to check it out.) Anyway, I thought I'd post a link to the article for anyone interested. It talks about the significance of the number 10 in scripture.
And on a totally different note having nothing to do with anything in particular, here's an Elvis song that I love to hear Michael Ball sing.
Have y'all heard about the ocean census that they just finished? It took them ten years to do! You can read about it here or here. While we were looking around for information, Morgan found this:
But it is not here.
Do you ever sense a theme to what we take pictures of?
We get a kick out of it, I guess.
But did you check out those clouds
Or that sweet shadow?
These are not in order of when they were taken.
But it was a beautiful drive.
Oh. How did that get in there?
