Year: 2006
Dormmates from Junipero at Stanford in 2005-2006, Daryl was featured here earlier, but now that the two have teamed up together, the result is spectacular. Just listen.
Aug 072006
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Origin/Composer: Jerry Goldsmith / Mulan
Year: 1998
In honor of the Disney sing-along this saturday.
Jul 242006
Just heard it again a few months after Cheri sent it to me in the middle of the night. Way to be sketch. 🙂
Jul 172006
Year: 1992
The Def Leppard and Journey joint concert is TOMORROW!!!!! To say I’m extremely excited would be an understatement.
Jul 102006
Year: 1978
Yep. I miss San Francisco and Stanford a bit.
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Year: 1973
Length: 5:35
I’m determined to learn the harmonica and get my voice to sing 2 notes higher just so that I can reach the G in this song. I have the piano part down now, but without the harmonica, I have to do some improv with the part the harmonica plays.
Jun 262006
Year: 1981
Journey is pretty wicked, and a surprising number of people have heard of them, but instantly recognize them when some of their songs are played, including this one. Also, I’m going to their concert in mid-July!
Jun 192006
Year: 2005
It’s a sort of good-bye song for my dorm this year, Junipero. Andy Ho played it at our last talent show thing, and then recorded it for the Junipero Soundtrack. It feeds the nostalgia…
Jun 122006
Origin/Composer: Claude-Michel Schönberg
Year: 1990
People may disagree, but I think this is the best song from Les Misérables. The way all the characters contribute their own story and feelings into the song and the way they all meld together at the end is so incredibly powerful. Only the finale can equal the power of this song. Maybe. You need to listen to it while reading the lyrics, or else the full effect just isn’t there.
Jun 052006
Origin/Composer: Aaron Copland
Year: 2006
Amy Weaver from Eden Prairie High School first gave this to me a few years ago for me to accompany, but then a week later or two, she dropped it because it was too hard. Being the stubborn person I am, I asked Munika Lay from Stanford to do this and she, being another stubborn person, agreed. We started fall quarter, and finally got it down pretty well by spring quarter. I included it in the Junipero Soundtrack.
My blurb from the Soundtrack: It’s the first piece I’ve done that has had breath marks for me, the pianist. It’s been a great time practicing with Munika and trying to get the two parts to fit impossibly together. I really like Copland, but sometimes the way he composes difficult passages just for making them difficult is kinda obnoxious.
Munika’s blurb from the Soundtrack: This Duo was a blast because Copland is an inconsiderate bastard of a composer. This meant that he put in all sorts of really hard intervals and that combining the parts was impossible. Which is why Lekan & Munika sound so awesome. Just remember, all’s well that ends well.