Deep Purple/Soir Indigo:
Information from the YouTube page of the above:
“Deep Purple” composed by Peter De Rose was first published in 1933. The piano composition became very popular and in 1938 lyrics were added by Mitchell Parish. More information on “Deep Purple” can be found here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Pur…)
To French audiences the song was known as “Soir Indigo” and was a big hit for the French female crooner Léo Marjane. Victor Silvester was world champion balllroom dancer who founded his own orchestra in 1935 because he felt there were no adequate records for dancing…. He went on to sell more than 75 million records throughout his career.
More info on Victor Silvester can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S…
Nearly 100 years after the sinking of “Titanic” this video features another legendary ocean liner : RMS Queen Mary. She made her maiden trip in 1936 and remained a favourite with the travelling public until her retirement in 1967. The video shows her leaving on her maiden voyage as well as her conversion to a troop ship during the Second World War. Being a museum as well as a hotel, she is now berthed in Long Beach, California. More info on this great ocean liner can be found here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Quee…
“In The Still Of The Night” with “art slideshow”
Again from the YouTube page’s info:
Art slideshow set to “In the Still of the Night” by Victor Silvester Orchestra. Includes mostly impressionist landscape paintings (with some Symbolism, Romanticism and Expressionism thrown in) depicting evening, night, sunset, streets in the rain etc. Supposed to appear a bit gloomy. In order of appearance:
Lesser Ury – Sonnenuntergang am Grunewaldsee (1900s)
Lesser Ury – Landwehrkanal 1920
Aristarkh Lentulov – The sun above the roofs. 1928
Arkary Rylov – Sunset
Arkady Rylov – Seagulls. Sunset.
Théodore Rousseau – Sunset Near Arbonne
Ivan Aivazovsky – Night in Crimea
Caspar David Friedrich – Evening
Armand Guillaumin – Sunset at Ivry (Soleil couchant à Ivry), 1873
Georges Seurat – Man at the parapet
Lesser Ury – Unter den Linden nach dem Regen
Lesser Ury – Hochbahnhof Bülowstraße 1922
Vincent van Gogh – Starry Night over the Rhone
Vincent van Gogh – The yellow house (‘The street’), 1888
Vincent van Gogh – Houses Seen from the Back
Lesser Ury – Am Landwehrkanal im Herbst
Lesser Ury – Unter den Linden
Claude Monet – Boulevard des Capucines
Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Monmartre in Paris
Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Montmartre au printemps, 1897
Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Montmartre la nuit, 1898
Vincent van Gogh – Starry Night
Van Gogh – Cafe Terrace at Night
Edvard Munch – Kiss by the window
Finally an excursion into Latin-influenced sounds, with the bossanova Desafinado:
Séamus Sweeney 