Entries tagged as ‘Billy Joel’
Tonight, benefactors treated 1/2 of the
Meanspeed Music staff to see the Broadway show by Arthur Miller called ‘All My Sons.’
Its stars were three movie stars – John Lithgow, Diane Wiest and the wife if Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes.
I personally did not expect but sitting in the orchestra’s house seats I found Holmes’ performance astounding. I couldn’t really describe it, but I most highly recommend anyone who gets a chance to see what all the ‘fuss’ is about to see the show. The Miller dialogue and theses are timeless, the direction and set and lighting were minimal yet somehow exceptionally full. The actors, each of the main draws known as movie stars, were exciting enough to keep me up all night measuring the tempo of the only song that describes these strange New York Broadway scenes: WHERE’S THE ORCHESTRA, by the New Yorker Billy Joel.
It is Joel’s *least* discussed song of any he has written since 1979. Why? People don’t know what to make of it. Put it this way: 15 years ago I saw Dustin Hoffman play Wiley Loman in Death of a Salesman. Dustin is, I am sorry, not cut out for stage acting. I’ve seen Jennifer Jason Leigh in Proof do very well, I’ve seen Sting in Threepenny Opera flounder. Tonight, Lithgow, Wiest and especially Katie Holmes were so good the bittersweetness I hear in this song about movie stars on Broadway – it is still not taped, it is an intimate and intense experience. I kept thinking of the line from Evita: STAR QUALITY. It was sad that the show had to end after 2 hours – but I will never forget it. Joel nails the bittersweetness amazingly, and most likely unconsciously. Billy – if you’ve seen the show, letting me know would be sweet – thanks.
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=”Where’s The Orchestra”
performer=Billy Joel®
composer=Billy Joel®
album-The Nylon Curtain
mean speed.average standard tempo/median velocity=78.4 beats per minute
average beat=0.765 seconds
emotional concept according to the meanspeed conjecture=bittersweetness, languid reflection
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
December 18, 2008
Categories: International Language · Music Psychology · Neurology · PoC · Psychology · Rhythm · Speed · Tempo · music
Tagged: Billy Joel, conceptual tempo, Diane Wiest, Emotional Concept, entertainment, Entertainment, Jon Lithgow, Katie Holmes, music, Nylon Curtain, pattern, PoC, Psychology, Time, Tom Cruise, WHERE_S THE ORCHESTA
Tonight, benefactors treated 1/2 of the Meanspeed Music staff to see the Broadway show by Arthur Miller called ‘All My Sons.’
Its stars were three movie stars – John Lithgow, Diane Wiest and the wife if Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes.
I personally did not expect but sitting in the orchestra’s house seats I found Holmes’ performance astounding. I couldn’t really describe it, but I most highly recommend anyone who gets a chance to see what all the ‘fuss’ is about to see the show. The Miller dialogue and theses are timeless, the direction and set and lighting were minimal yet somehow exceptionally full. The actors, each of the main draws known as movie stars, were exciting enough to keep me up all night measuring the tempo of the only song that describes these strange New York Broadway scenes: WHERE’S THE ORCHESTRA, by the New Yorker Billy Joel.
It is Joel’s *least* discussed song of any he has written since 1979. Why? People don’t know what to make of it. Put it this way: 15 years ago I saw Dustin Hoffman play Wiley Loman in Death of a Salesman. Dustin is, I am sorry, not cut out for stage acting. I’ve seen Jennifer Jason Leigh in Proof do very well, I’ve seen Sting in Threepenny Opera flounder. Tonight, Lithgow, Wiest and especially Katie Holmes were so good the bittersweetness I hear in this song about movie stars on Broadway – it is still not taped, it is an intimate and intense experience. I kept thinking of the line from Evita: STAR QUALITY. It was sad that the show had to end after 2 hours – but I will never forget it. Joel nails the bittersweetness amazingly, and most likely unconsciously. Billy – if you’ve seen the show, letting me know would be sweet – thanks.
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=”Where’s The Orchestra”
performer=Billy Joel®
composer=Billy Joel®
album-The Nylon Curtain
mean speed.average standard tempo/median velocity=78.4 beats per minute
average beat=0.765 seconds
emotional concept according to the meanspeed conjecture=bittersweetness, languid reflection
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
December 18, 2008
Categories: Tom Cruise
Tagged: Billy Joel, Diane Wiest, Jon Lithgow, Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, WHERE_S THE ORCHESTA
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According to the meanspeed music conjecture, The Downeaster Alexa emotes a tempo which borders on renewal and enthusiasm.
Meanspeed-Carlton Summary
song title=”The Downeaster Alexa”
composer=Billy Joel
performer=Billy Joel
key=D minor
album=’Storm Front’
average beat length=669 milliseconds
Meanspeed Music modern tempo map- Downeaster-Alexa-spreadsheet-1-of-2-714069
beats per trial=312
average velocity/standard tempo/mean speed=89.7 beats per minute
mean-emotion according to meanspeed music theory=enthusiasm
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
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Billy Joel The Downeaster “ Alexa” (C) 1989 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Billy Joel – The Downeaster Alexa NXD myspace.com
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Alexa‘” is a song originally released in 1989 on Billy Joel’s eleventh studio album Storm Front. The album itself went to number one while
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The Downeaster Alexa
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Single by Billy Joel
from the album Storm Front |
| Released |
1990 |
| Format |
CD single |
| Recorded |
The Hit Factory, Times Square Studio, New York, NY |
| Genre |
Rock |
| Length |
3:44 |
| Label |
Columbia |
| Writer(s) |
Billy Joel |
| Producer |
Billy Joel
Mick Jones |
| Billy Joel singles chronology |
“That’s Not Her Style“
(1990) |
“The Downeaster ‘Alexa’“
(1990) |
“Shameless“
(1991) |
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“The Downeaster ‘Alexa’” is a song originally released in 1989 on Billy Joel’s eleventh studio album Storm Front. The album itself went to number 1 while “The Downeaster ‘Alexa’” placed #57 in the top 100. The song was re-released on Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Vol. 3 in 1997.
The song is sung in the persona of an impoverished fisherman in the Outer Lands and the surrounding waters who, like many of his fellow men, is finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet and keep ownership of his boat. The fisherman sings about the depletion of the fish stocks (”I know there’s fish out there, but where God only knows”), the conversion of his home island into a summer colony for the affluent (”There ain’t no island left for islanders like me”), and hints at the problems caused by environmental regulation (”Since they tell me I can’t sell no stripers“). The lyrics reference Block Island Sound, Montauk, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket, amongst other locations.
Alexa, the name of the fishing boat in the song, is the name of Billy Joel’s daughter, Alexa Ray Joel. Joel does in fact own a downeaster lobster/swordfish hybrid boat by the name “Alexa”, built on a Maine lobster boat hull. The “Alexa”, along with Joel’s other boats, call Sag Harbor, Long Island, home.
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