Friday, July 04, 2008

One more for the collection...

[My Independence Day post from last year]

The Stars and Stripes. And Stars. And Stripes. Forever...

For men.

For a choir with one honkin' great soprano.

For girls on tromobones.

For guitar.

For organ.

For piano. (Nobody messes with Horowitz. Un-freakin'-believable!) [Update - I've listened to this several times now. The only possible explanation is he grows an extra hand halfway through]

And now add this version:




Happy Independence Day!

1 comment:

Ol James said...

And a Happy Fourth of July to you and yours Mr. John!!
I did a bit of searching on Mr. Horowitz and found a few of his videos. There is one at his house and he plays a snippet of the song. I found this video that will give you some insight as to the difficulty of this song on piano..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jeGTPE1Z_qs&feature=related


The girls should be sponsored by Chap Stick. Hard to beat Mr. Atkins and the Muppets...well..
Enjoy and yall be Safe.