I have always been fascinated by different styles in music, but especially where two completely different types are combined.

My first offering is the 'classic' first collaboration by Stephane Grappelli (jazz violinist) and Yehudi Menuhin (classical):
Jealousy

Traditional folk, jazz, and rock.
Piirpauke - Konevitsan kirkonkellot (Churchbells of Konevitsa)
Here with old Karelian 36-string kantele tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOGHrPLfL8&feature=related

Impressive, thar! Thanks!

Usually the attempts to mix rock and classical end up badly, like The Ventures' version of Mozart's 40th,
or London Symphony Orchestra playing Beatles.

Emerson. Lake and Palmer guided a generation to listen to classical music with their respective touch on pieces like Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, or Sibelius's Karelia Suite.

Some rock music is composed like classical (70's King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Procol Harum, Queen, Zappa...)

To put a Symphony Orchestra to play some rock pieces is no good if the music won't fit.

However, this I like:

Zappa: Yellow Shark concerts with Ensemble Modern - Dog Breath Variations

Dmitri Shostakovich´s Jazz Suites 1 & 2 (Great!)

Nigel Kennedy - Light my fire

dingdong - you need the beat to dance to, or you cut your toenails on the swords...

mozart on the rampage

What do you mean, not that Mozart?

hey, wrong thread, this is rimur, not bowing guitar You have probably heard them before, they are used on several film soundtracks, but the best film music you don't notice, you just feel.

glad you liked it - and thank you for starting these threads, I have met a lot of cool music.

but, if you think these guys have the spirit, you should meet their friend...the true soul of a musician!!!

Pálli Stefánsson

and using it in a concert - I think the sound is truly magical

Odin's Raven Magic

ah, there are serious criteria for being cool:

hot is cool, chilled is cool and cool is cool,

but cold is not cool, and luke-warm is seriously not cool!

Tootsie, the Freddie Mercury piece was wonderful. I miss him so. I ended up watching his videos on You Tube for about an hour. Thank you so much.

Is Mozart 40 with a beat, cool?
Excuse me, won't you? You see I don't live in a 'cool' world.

Surely the point of this forum - not just this thread - is to exchange insights, views, and opinions with people around the world? Some might be favourable, some not.
I just wanted something a bit more useful and meaningful than 'cool'. Many people who use this forum do so to improve their English, and 'cool' means ... what?
Some use the word as though it is the only adjective in their vocabulary.

Hi dingdong!

Er... well... yes... complementary. It was not me, it was my finger, honest.

What is the temperature where you are? It's only minus 2 here - not really got cold yet, but that's cool (terrible joke)

John Kaizan Neptune: an American player and builder of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)


John Kaizan Neptune

sorry i overreacted dingdong, thought you were on a downer.
Please, I have sought in vain for a ^^^^er word than cool, but dude, all the groovy ones seem to go out of date so quickly, it is the only one that has dated so many times it is married - it can't date any more!

so, if jazz is always looking for that mellow sound, why does it not use the mellowest instrument in the orchestra? Well, some guys thought it should! Hey, it is so hip with the jazz vibe the sound smokes out behind you!

http://youtu.be/vvqukbd-Auw

Jero

Jero Interview on CNN

Music Video

Same here. I have never heard of King Crimson, but so many of the sounds are the things I love in other bands of that era, I am just so suprised they are not more well known (or, maybe they are and I just missed them!)

If I may, coz I just found it, I want to post a longer clip the Barbican concert of Odin's Raven, this time chapter 3 (there are several chapters, it is the retelling of an old Saga).
http://youtu.be/TRQ2WwiMndY

I think it is because this place is so small, that we cannot afford to have genres and pigeonholes, that a rock band can join both with a folk singer and write a classical piece, and everyone works together. I think everywhere that is happening more and more throughout music, by economic necessity and the convergence of technology, so it should continue to produce interesting stuff. Hope so.

Anyway, I think this is beautiful. Don't know if any classicists would rate it, but listening to this through headphones with the eyes closed - very primal, in a restrained sort of way!

[Then I promise to shut up. But then you have heard that promise before....]

Contemporary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3S8W4y_kF0