SONG OF THE BIRDS

PABLO CASALS E SEU VIOLONCELO
 
          Pablo Casals i Defilló (El Vendrell, 29 de dezembro de 1876 — San Juan de Porto Rico, 22 de outubro de 1973) foi um virtuoso violoncelista e maestro catalão. É também amplamente conhecido pela versão castelhana (e de batismo) de seu nome: Pablo Casals.
             Pau Carles Salvador Casals i Defilló nasceu na cidade de El Vendrell, na província de Tarragona, Catalunha, Espanha. Seu pai, Carles Casals i Ribes (1852–1908), era organista e maestro do coral da paróquia, instruindo o filho em piano, violino e órgão. Sua mãe, Pilar Defilló, nasceu em Mayagüez, Porto Rico de pais catalães.
      Casals demonstrou talento desde pequeno, obtendo fama internacional ainda jovem. Centralizando as suas atividades de músico em Paris, percorreu a Europa e os Estados Unidos da América promovendo concertos e recitais memoráveis, que sempre assombraram a audiência, críticos e a imprensa especializada.

        Ao mesmo tempo, formou uma orquestra em Barcelona, atuando também como maestro. Contudo, ela se desenvolveu na turbulência da revolta e guerra civil conduzida pelo general Francisco Franco. Por ser um ardente patriota catalão e republicano, recusou-se a viver sob a ditadura e exilou-se na França. Contudo, o amor pela pátria levou-o a morar em Prades, uma pequena cidade no sul da França no sopé dos Pirenéus, não muito longe da sua terra natal.
            Logo depois eclodiu a Segunda Guerra Mundial e Casals continuou em sua resoluta oposição contra o governo de Franco, combatendo também os fascistas alemães e italianos que o apoiavam. Os nazistas o ameaçaram, tentando suborná-lo, mas ele manteve-se firme em suas convicções e ajudou os refugiados da Espanha fascista.
Quando a guerra terminou e a paz voltou a reinar na França, muitos músicos foram a Prades estudar com Casals.
         Em junho de 1950, a convite e insistência de Alexander Schneider, músico violinista, entre outros músicos, aceitou fazer parte de um festival de música de Bach. Foi o início do Festival de Prades, que mais tarde tornou-se conhecido em todo o mundo.
             Casals foi convidado a dar um concerto, no dia 24 de outubro de 1958, para festejar o dia das Nações Unidas, na sua sede em Nova York. Nessa oportunidade Casals propôs a união da humanidade em busca da paz através da Ode à Alegria de Beethoven.
          Ironicamente, Pau Casals tornou-se conhecido internacionalmente pelo seu nome em castelhano, Pablo, com a curiosidade de ser um grande incentivador da luta contra a ditadura de Francisco Franco e o domínio nazista. Por fim, o nome imposto pelo regime franquista, ficou gravado e é por ele que é mais conhecido.

THE BLUES ARE BREWIN’

BILLIE HOLIDAY
SONGWRITERS: EDDIE DE LANGE & LOUIS ALTER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: THE BLUES ARE BREWIN’/LP
LABEL: DECCA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1958
 
           Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
              After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
        She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film. In 2017, Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

When the moon's kinda dreamy
Starry eyed and dreamy
And nights are luscious and long
If you're kinda lonely
Then nothin' but the blues are brewin'
The blues are brewin'
 
When the wind through the window
Blows across your pillow
And tells you sleepin' is wrong
If love goes a thirsting
Till you feel like bursting
Then nothing but the blues are brewin'
The blues are brewin'
 
Suppose you want somebody
But you ain't got nobody
You only got a gleam in your eyes
Till somebody's found you
And put their lovin' arms around you
You got the feelin' you want to die
 
But when the lord up above you
Sends someone to love you
The blues are something you lose
You're so busy doing
The things that you're doing
That love ain't got no time
For brewin' the blues.
MULHERES DE ATENAS
CHICO BUARQUE
COMPOSITORES: CHICO BUARQUE E AUGUSTO BOAL
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: MEUS CAROS AMIGOS
GRAVADORA: PHILIPS RECORDS
GÊNERO: M.P.B.
ANO: 1976

Meus Caros Amigos é um álbum do músico brasileiro Chico Buarque, lançado em 1976.
O álbum conta com a participação de Milton Nascimento na faixa "O Que Será? (A Flor da Terra)" e traz ainda várias músicas compostas por Chico para peças e filmes: Mulheres de Atenas foi escrita por Chico e Augusto Boal para a peça Lisa, a Mulher Libertadora, de Boal. "Vai Trabalhar, Vagabundo" foi composta por Chico para o filme de mesmo nome, do diretor Hugo Carvana. Passaredo e "A Noiva da Cidade" foram escritas por Chico e Francis Hime para o filme A Noiva da Cidade de Alex Vianny. "Basta um Dia" foi escrita por Chico para a peça Gota d'Água, de Chico e Paulo Pontes.
Mirem-se no exemplo
Daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Vivem pros seus maridos
Orgulho e raça de Atenas

Quando amadas, se perfumam
Se banham com leite, se arrumam
Suas melenas
Quando fustigadas não choram
Se ajoelham, pedem imploram
Mais duras penas; cadenas

Mirem-se no exemplo
Daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Sofrem pros seus maridos
Poder e força de Atenas

Quando eles embarcam soldados
Elas tecem longos bordados
Mil quarentenas
E quando eles voltam, sedentos
Querem arrancar, violentos
Carícias plenas, obscenas

Mirem-se no exemplo
Daquelas mulheres de Atenas
Despem-se pros maridos
Bravos guerreiros de Atenas

Quando eles se entopem de vinho
Costumam buscar um carinho
De outras falenas
Mas no fim da noite, aos pedaços
Quase sempre voltam pros braços
De suas pequenas, Helenas

Mirem-se no exemplo
Daquelas mulheres de Atenas:
Geram pros seus maridos

Os novos filhos de Atenas.
REGRAS PARA A MULHER ATENIENSE:

VIDA DOMÉSTICA

(EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU

BRYAN ADAMS
SONGWRITERS: KAMEN; LANGE; ADAMS; ROBERT JOHN LANGE; BRYAN ADAMS & MICHAEL KAMEN
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
LABEL: A&M RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
WAKING UP THE NEIGHBOURS
YEAR:1991
 
            Bryan Guy Adams OC OBC (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, composer, record producer, photographer, philanthropist, and activist.
                Adams rose to fame in Canada and the United States with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. His 1984 album Reckless made him a global star and yielded some of his best-known songs, including "Run to You", "Summer of '69", and the U.S. number one hit "Heaven". In 1991, Adams released the album Waking Up the Neighbours, which included the song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"; the song became a worldwide hit, reached number one in many countries, and held the top spot in the charts in the United Kingdom for a record 16 consecutive weeks. Other U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit singles by Adams are "All for Love" and "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?". Adams released his Ultimate collection in 2017; it included two new songs, "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love". He co-wrote his first Broadway musical, Pretty Woman: The Musical, in 2018.
       For his contributions to music, Adams has garnered many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations and 15 Grammy Award nominations, including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. Adams has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards for his songwriting for films. Adams has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Canada's Walk of Fame, the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 1 May 2010, Adams received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.
            "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams, Michael Kamen, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, it featured on two albums simultaneously on its release: the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams's sixth album, Waking Up the Neighbours(1991).
        The song was an enormous chart success internationally, reaching the number-one position on the music charts of at least sixteen countries. It is particularly notable for its success in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, the longest uninterrupted run ever on that chart as of 2020. It went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams's most successful song, and one of the best-selling singles of all time. The single sold over 4 million units in the US, the 4th highest selling song of the Soundscan era which started in 1991. The song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world.

Look into my eyes
You will see what you mean to me
Search your heart, search your soul
And when you find me there
You'll search no more
 
Don't tell me
It's not worth trying for
You can't tell me
It's not worth dying for
You know it's true
Everything I do, I do it for you
 
Look into your heart
You will find
There's nothing there to hide
Take me as I am, take my life
I would give it all
I would sacrifice
 
Don't tell me
It's not worth fighting for
I can't help it
There's nothing I want more
You know it's true
Everything I do, I do it for you
 
There's no love like your love
And no other could give more love
There's nowhere, unless you're there
All the time, all the way yeah
 
Oh, you can't tell me
It's not worth trying for
I can't help it
There's nothing I want more
I would fight for you
I'd lie for you
Walk the wire for you
Yeah, I'd die for you
 
You know it's true
Everything I do
I do it for you.