Miho's favorites

Which music makes you cry, makes you feel nostalgic ?  Music which I have great memory with the generation, but haven't listened to them for a long time, almost 30 years makes me so nostalgic, and made me tears.  I love this feeling.  Recently, my husband and I enjoy listening & dancing to 1970s music.   I'm so surprised to know Abba 's songs are still on top of the sales in Sweden, and still listened to all over the world.  The two men in Abba , Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson , who composed all their music are definitely music genius.  And the two Abba lady singers, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni Frid Lyngstad have the voices of angels.  They had sold over 370 millions in album sales, and are still selling millions of CDs each year, making them one of the top selling music artists in history.  My husband's favorite ladies singers are Olivia Newton- John and Abba's Agnetha Faltskog .   I think these two have a similar type of voice and si

I guess I'm a romanticist.  I love romantic music, romantic people, romantic places, romantic scenery, romantic fashion and romantic generation.  Here are my top 10 Romantic classical piano music below,  Top 10 Romantic classical piano music  1. Liebestraum ( Dream of Love ) by Franz Liszt  This is heavenly sweet & romantic music. Liszt composed it while in the middle of a burning love, very passionate and sweet. It's a killer music to me, definitely my number one romantic piano music.  When it comes to this piece, I love Hiroko Nakamura 's playing the best.  Very emotional and when I'm closing my eyes while listening to her playing it, it gets even more touching.  Hiroko Nakamura : Liebestraum - Franz Liszt     2. Waltz in A Minor - Frederic Chopin  This is a magnificent piece !  Very very emotionally romantic and it's super touching. This was used in the movie " Desire for Love" , which is a biographic movie o

The Beatles are well-known as a famous music group who made one of the biggest impacts ever in world history. My husband Ray has been a big fan of the Beatles since his childhood. ( he’s also a big fan of another British rock group, Queen , as well.)   He remembers the word for “ apple “ in Japanese because it’s pronounced “ Lingo “, and this sound reminds him of the name Ringo, as in “ Ringo” Starr.   At least in my generation, everyone knows all the names of the Beatles members.  And also about their amazing popularity during 1960s to early 1970s.    My husband and I are collectors of our favorite things,  and have many videos or DVDs of our favorite movies, TV shows , figure skating and rock bands, so if we started watching all of them, we may not need regular TV in our free time.  Ray has a box of The Beatles videos which has a set of 8 videos, history of the Beatles, which he purchased a long time ago. I didn’t watch it until rec

Perhaps the most mysterious legend about Mozart is that of the " Masked Messenger ". This mysterious masked messenger is also known historically as the "Man in Gray" , "The Mysterious Messenger" , "The Gray Messenger". The story of the masked messenger was featured prominently in the movie “ Amadeus ".           Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart How much of this story is true ? When Mozart died in the early morning hours of December 5, 1791, he left his final masterpiece, the Requiem , unfinished. A few months later, a completed score of the Requiem was delivered to its anonymous commissioner. How was the Requiem completed and how would Mozart have completed it had he lived? These mysteries have tantalized musicians for over two centuries. Mozart received the commission to compose the Requiem from the “ Mysterious Messenger" in the summer of 1791.  The Messenger paid half the commission in advance,