I can't believe this is the same Jay Ungar when we were friends at the High School of Music and Art in 1963 in NYC. We both lived in the Bronx. It's been decades since the last time I saw him. He was a terrific violinist when he was just 17.
What moves me about Jay Unger is, although he has tremendous command, his playing isn't about virtuosity--look at how good I am. His playing is about depth. Where does this song reside? He conveys where the song is coming from and introduces the listeners to that place within themselves. Excuse me for being sappy, but the beauty in the music is undeniable.
I remember being a young boy listening to my music teacher talk about how instrumental music tells a story. At the time that made no sense to me. 30 years later i totally understand. This song bring me to tears everytime i listen to it.
So much beautiful music in the World and I have only scratched the surface. These two pieces, especially Midnight on the Water, are particularly fine and I've just heard them for the first time . I only knew of Bonaparte's Retreat from another Country Song which mentioned it, but I'd never heard it 'til now. Superb rendition by the Player's. THANK YOU.
Some music/tunes bring tears unbidden to my eyes. Such a tune is Midnight on the Water as was the effect ,at aged 13, of hearing Sibelius 2nd Symphony whilst standing in my Grandmother's kitchen. Tishimingo Blues too.
I love how they emphasize beats two and four, like the Irish. That really makes the music alive and making me want to dance! Fabulous musicianship all around!
It truly is a wonderful thing. This still is the most beautiful and haunting rendering of this tune that I know of. My wife and I recently had a little guy, so I'm learning this tune on my guitar right now, to play to him as a lullaby. I just spent an hour rewinding the video to watch Molly's playing, and where exactly she puts her little walks and chord changes.
@@MichaelHarvill98 So very, very true. I am 72 years old and have been studying violin/fiddle now for three years. Learn an instrument, it is easy. Yeah, right.
Seeing jay perform this brought me back to when I took fiddle lessons from him, 40yrs ago or so. I still have his breakdown of midnight on the water and bonepartes retreat on cassette tape. He helped me get my 1st decent bow. I probably could have been a better student but his prowess with the fiddle was mighty intimidating to a 15yr old!!!
been attending Fiddle and Dance Camp for many years , andlove everything Jay and Molly do ! The Judson Mem. Church has special meaning because I belong to N.Y.C. Friends of Clearwater , and we meet there.
Copeland's Rodeo came out In 1946... Commissioned By Agnes DeMille... This piece they are playing is Part of Rodeo. My Father Was a Rodeo rider in 1946. I think of him when I hear it.
Aaron Copland's Hoedown (on his work, Rodeo), was based on a field recording he heard from the Library of Congress, mistakenly listed on TH-cam as William H. Stepp's Bonaparte's Retreat, which was really called Napoleon's Bony Part. Notice on Stepp's recording found on TH-cam ("Bonaparte's Retreat" ~ William H. Stepp, 1937), at 00:22, where he says, while playing, "Now this [undecipherable], the 'bony' part. That's the 'bony' part." (The undecipherable word may be "next" or "makes".) You can hear, on TH-cam, Audrey Williams - Bonaparte's Retreat, Hank Williams Bonaparte's Retreat, and others that show how different Bonaparte's Retreat is to Hoedown, and what Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are playing above, which sounds great, by the way! But, it is Napoleon's Bony Part (or, Bonypart), not Napoleon's Retreat, as others have thought.
+Rock Drumr blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2013/11/bill-stepp-aaron-copland-and-bonapartes-retreat/ Looks the Library of Congress folklorist has already corrected you on this: blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2013/11/bill-stepp-aaron-copland-and-bonapartes-retreat/#comment-286990 I'd recommend citing your source on your dubious claim, please.
Here's another thing. I can listen to folk music from 12th century England. Music that has persisted throughout the ages. One of my favorite most cryptic songs of that time is one called The Cutty Wren. Survived 800 years without a dime of stimulus.
You know, most musicians and creative types back then had patrons-- often royal or nobles. That was the feudal version of "stimulus." Not to mention many, many of the traditional American folk songs were collected in the depression by people working in the WPA- FDR's employment stimulus project. Even now, the Smithsonian-- a government institution, not to mention many public universities and state museums-- assemble recordings and songbooks of traditional music. Stimulus rocks. :)
No, he didn't. However, it was considered public domain and no copyright, since it was so old and the origin untraceable (no one knows who first played it). So legally he didn't have to... but I'm with you, it would have been nice to do from an ethical standpoint.
i don't know how i got here but i'm sure glad i came....not familiar with any of these folks before tonight but that is fine playing. second song i recognized as lifted by Emerson Lake and Palmer in their song 'Hoedown'....
Wow. Your music is beautiful! I love it...sometimes I find it haunting or sad....nevertheless, it always stirs up feelings and emotion for this music appreciatior!
Amazingly soinding. Like a bagpipe in the first phrase then blends into an Irish like reel only missing the drum. (Don't know the name it's called.) Well done!!
"That's popular music. It was popular before anybody could make money off it." Vic Mullen used to have a show on CBC radio which gave him a free hand to choose the music. He came out with that assessment just as an A.P. Carter record ended.
I don't consider this version of Bonaparte's Retreat to be an old traditional one. The recording of John Salyer playing Bonaparte's Retreat really sounds like a march.
My daughters wedding processional at her outdoor June wedding was Asoken Farewell and Moonlight was to be our father daughter dance. The ensemble played it but I chickened out on the dance, I have 2 left feet when it comes to that.
I love it whenever we get a history of the music being played, helps to appreciate it even more.
I can't believe this is the same Jay Ungar when we were friends at the High School of Music and Art in 1963 in NYC. We both lived in the Bronx. It's been decades since the last time I saw him. He was a terrific violinist when he was just 17.
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What moves me about Jay Unger is, although he has tremendous command, his playing isn't about virtuosity--look at how good I am. His playing is about depth. Where does this song reside? He conveys where the song is coming from and introduces the listeners to that place within themselves. Excuse me for being sappy, but the beauty in the music is undeniable.
I remember being a young boy listening to my music teacher talk about how instrumental music tells a story. At the time that made no sense to me. 30 years later i totally understand. This song bring me to tears everytime i listen to it.
Lovely piece. This demonstrates perfectly Ms Mason's sensitivity in the way she augments the soloist without being showy.
So much beautiful music in the World and I have only scratched the surface. These two pieces, especially Midnight on the Water, are particularly fine and I've just heard them for the first time . I only knew of Bonaparte's Retreat from another Country Song which mentioned it, but I'd never heard it 'til now. Superb rendition by the Player's. THANK YOU.
Just enchanting
Some music/tunes bring tears unbidden to my eyes. Such a tune is Midnight on the Water as was the effect ,at aged 13, of hearing Sibelius 2nd Symphony whilst standing in my Grandmother's kitchen. Tishimingo Blues too.
They don't just fiddle around do they? Midnight is hauntingly beautiful
I love how they emphasize beats two and four, like the Irish. That really makes the music alive and making me want to dance! Fabulous musicianship all around!
This is the best performance I've heard of these old standards. Top notch!
Three thoroughbred musicians, champions all. Wonderful arrangement and performance.
Goes straight to my heart, I love this music!
this is exceptional. thank you for sharing. i always enjoy listening to you play.
I love to watch Molly read there faces, even her small single notes add wonderment.
To all of you who play, what a wonderful thing it must be.
It truly is a wonderful thing. This still is the most beautiful and haunting rendering of this tune that I know of. My wife and I recently had a little guy, so I'm learning this tune on my guitar right now, to play to him as a lullaby. I just spent an hour rewinding the video to watch Molly's playing, and where exactly she puts her little walks and chord changes.
It's a curse to be a musician.
@@MichaelHarvill98 So very, very true. I am 72 years old and have been studying violin/fiddle now for three years. Learn an instrument, it is easy. Yeah, right.
@@MichaelHarvill98 Ah! So that's the solution--I find me a witch to put a curse on me so I can be a musician instead of just a wannabe. Wish me luck.
totally agree 🙂
Thank you for posting this beautiful music. Should be mandatory for students of music and dance.
Masters! This is so beautiful! I would have had a hard time not dancing had i been there! Amazing!!!
The gift of music! to play and to listen. A language we all understand. Wonderful.
Then Jay took it to Transatlantic Sessions and - thank God - the world got to hear this wonderful piece of music.
The melody is how I hope 2020 finishes out.
oh dear, lol
Sorry
Molly, you're a STAR. Beautifully and sensitively executed. xx
Seeing jay perform this brought me back to when I took fiddle lessons from him, 40yrs ago or so. I still have his breakdown of midnight on the water and bonepartes retreat on cassette tape. He helped me get my 1st decent bow. I probably could have been a better student but his prowess with the fiddle was mighty intimidating to a 15yr old!!!
The guitar harmonics for the first part of Bonaparte’s Retreat feel like some sort of masterclass in accompaniment.
This violinist is the best ever. He is one with his instrument and knows how to make it perform.
he's a fiddler, just to correct you
I’m from East Tennessee and live in Colorado. This transported me straight back home to the Appalachian mountains. Thank you, so very very beautiful.
The acoustics ad great sonic ambience. This is the sound of old, before amplification and excellent musicians makes it all more beautiful.
been attending Fiddle and Dance Camp for many years , andlove everything Jay and Molly do ! The Judson Mem. Church has special meaning because I belong to N.Y.C. Friends of Clearwater , and we meet there.
This is such a great version of “Midnight on the Water” and such a cool treatment of “Bonaparte’s Retreat”. Thank you!
One of my new favorite videos! Thanks for the context at the beginning! "stimulus funding"!
Copeland's Rodeo came out
In 1946... Commissioned
By Agnes DeMille...
This piece they are playing is
Part of Rodeo. My Father
Was a Rodeo rider in 1946.
I think of him when I hear it.
Amazing! So soothing and peaceful.. well done guys!
Wonderful music played by outstanding musicians!
Yeah, Molly! I LOVE your walking bass....it adds SO much to the tune!
Super! Love those guys. We always try and get to their concerts when they come to the Portland area.
Fantastic playing 2 great tunes. 👍🎻
Such fantastic musicians! Lovely to listen to all day :-)
How in the world could ANYONE give this a thumbs down? Are you out of your mind?
I can't figure it out either.
Some people are never happy
Midnight on the Water sounds so haunting, the way it echoes in the performance hall. Almost like a lament.
Mesmerizing, especially the last half of Midnight on the Water.
This caresses my ears and makes me want to flip flap jacks in the morning for someone I love.
What?
@@fmcnally 😆
Wow just wow! And Molly what a solid cool calm groove player that guitar just kept ticking over
Subtle and mighty beautiful version.
I just saw Jay & Molly tonight in Morristown NJ. The talking and story telling is part of the show. I had a great time. Great show.
Aaron Copland's Hoedown (on his work, Rodeo), was based on a field recording he heard from the Library of Congress, mistakenly listed on TH-cam as William H. Stepp's Bonaparte's Retreat, which was really called Napoleon's Bony Part. Notice on Stepp's recording found on TH-cam ("Bonaparte's Retreat" ~ William H. Stepp, 1937), at 00:22, where he says, while playing, "Now this [undecipherable], the 'bony' part. That's the 'bony' part." (The undecipherable word may be "next" or "makes".)
You can hear, on TH-cam, Audrey Williams - Bonaparte's Retreat, Hank Williams Bonaparte's Retreat, and others that show how different Bonaparte's Retreat is to Hoedown, and what Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are playing above, which sounds great, by the way! But, it is Napoleon's Bony Part (or, Bonypart), not Napoleon's Retreat, as others have thought.
+Rock Drumr blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2013/11/bill-stepp-aaron-copland-and-bonapartes-retreat/
Looks the Library of Congress folklorist has already corrected you on this: blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2013/11/bill-stepp-aaron-copland-and-bonapartes-retreat/#comment-286990
I'd recommend citing your source on your dubious claim, please.
God Bless these musicians who play right straight into my heart!
Mine too. It's exactly what I was thinking.
Excellent, great to listen to such musicians...great talent!
Great music and playing. Thanks for sharing the video.
My daughter is learning this song and she loves it! She plays the violin.
Here's another thing. I can listen to folk music from 12th century England. Music that has persisted throughout the ages. One of my favorite most cryptic songs of that time is one called The Cutty Wren. Survived 800 years without a dime of stimulus.
You know, most musicians and creative types back then had patrons-- often royal or nobles. That was the feudal version of "stimulus." Not to mention many, many of the traditional American folk songs were collected in the depression by people working in the WPA- FDR's employment stimulus project. Even now, the Smithsonian-- a government institution, not to mention many public universities and state museums-- assemble recordings and songbooks of traditional music. Stimulus rocks. :)
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No dimes just pounds, shillings and pence. A nations culture is invaluable.
@@arasley stimulus is great! But folk tunes definitely did not have royalty as patron.
@@arasley Difference is that was their own money.
Simplistic and beautiful. What music should be.
Huh. I would never call that "simplistic" - those are accomplished musicians! I might call it "simple".
Jay, Paul & Molly ought to tour as the Stimulus Trio! :-)
Interesting tidbits shared, TY! Both beautiful renditions of favorite American classics.
I love being introduced to new music and new artists (to me) on youtube. :D
Absolutely awesome.
Stunning, real music.
Absolutely beautiful!
Truly remarkable and beautiful 🎶
And that melody comes from an old Scottish Bagpipe tune which is actually a march
Wow! Such beauty. Well done.
Paul has been to my town many,many times to perform. I love it when he plays the Hardanger fiddle.
Eerily Beautiful...
"You can hear it on the TH-cam"!😄😄😄
Beautiful! Nice to see Molly's initial apprehension turn to a smile. Just love that old Gibson!
Love your music
Amazing! I'm a huge fan of those playing, and those it is dedicated to! Tip of the hat to Benny Thomasson!
Dale Paul Woodiel, Jr. is the other fiddle Player
thanks for filling in that blank
Jay has got some really neat hats! (I'm a hat person, as well as someone who loves this music.)
looks like a Stetson
I love that they credit earlier collectors for this music. Wonder if Copeland did?
No, he didn't. However, it was considered public domain and no copyright, since it was so old and the origin untraceable (no one knows who first played it). So legally he didn't have to... but I'm with you, it would have been nice to do from an ethical standpoint.
It started as a slow sad Irish tune from the 19th century. So it was definitely in the public domain. In the 1950s it became a hit country tune.
I love that Molly never takes her eyes off Jay's as they work through this.
+Paul Sellers Yes, I like that too. Still in love and communicating beautifully after all those years.
There is a lot more to it than that. Two musicians working together communicate through eye contact in ways most people do not comprehend.
Paul Sellers johnny cash give my love. To rose
It's more than eye contact. I think it's more like soul contact :-)
Never?
ty so much for posting this, excellent job!!enjoyed it!
Beautifully played!
i don't know how i got here but i'm sure glad i came....not familiar with any of these folks before tonight but that is fine playing. second song i recognized as lifted by Emerson Lake and Palmer in their song 'Hoedown'....
I just love that Cajun 'drone'...been listening to this all day! Amazing....despite what SOME numbnuts below say. :)
Love those bass runs on guitar
This is literally the most amazing thing i've ever heard!
Wow. Your music is beautiful! I love it...sometimes I find it haunting or sad....nevertheless, it always stirs up feelings and emotion for this music appreciatior!
A Beautifull Melody 🎶 ❤
🍺🍺🍺
Fair to midlin. Sorry, I'm from Cape Breton. Our beginners would give this crew a run for their money.
Gotta prove it now
I agree, David Bromberg, on his Midnight on the Water album is the best version I've heard.
Davebow Hol it's a contest?
Perfection at its finest..
My favorite video on the younterwebtubes.
Amazingly soinding. Like a bagpipe in the first phrase then blends into an Irish like reel only missing the drum. (Don't know the name it's called.) Well done!!
Michael Galey The Drum is called a bodhran.
Thanks I remember seeing one on a Celtic Woman concert.
"That's popular music. It was popular before anybody could make money off it."
Vic Mullen used to have a show on CBC radio which gave him a free hand to choose the music. He came out with that assessment just as an A.P. Carter record ended.
Artistry at it's finest!
This reminded me of an old commercial. "Beef... It's what's for dinner."
wow, this sounds like it is straight out of Ireland
How good is that . Fantastic stuff .
My first dance on my PAPA'S SHOES~
My first Dums by Martha Kane Martha Kay playing my first dance cancel
Ahhhhhhh! .............Thank you!!!
Flawless performance.
Fabulous concert. Why isn't there a CD?
So lovely! ❤️
When you hear "Bonaparte's Retreat" played "hoedown"-style, consider that it was originally written and performed in march time.
did they retreat at march time? ;-)
What do you think the fife and drum was for? It was so that the soldiers could march in step with each other.
I don't consider this version of Bonaparte's Retreat to be an old traditional one. The recording of John Salyer playing Bonaparte's Retreat really sounds like a march.
well this is the Stepp version. hard to say if Stepp, or Salyer, or Ed Haley, or Emmet Lundy, etc etc was the 'more authentic' fiddler.
Blue Moon of Kentucky was written and originally performed by Bill Monroe.
Does that make Elvis' version any less enjoyable?
My daughters wedding processional at her outdoor June wedding was Asoken Farewell and Moonlight was to be our father daughter dance. The ensemble played it but I chickened out on the dance, I have 2 left feet when it comes to that.
Es una composición hermosa 💚🎧🎩🌹🌹🌹🌞🌹🌞🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
wow! That's some nice artistry.
Perfect,
Absolutely perfect!
Molly’s brother is actually a national champion fiddler too fun fact and one of the best bow makers on the planet here in Portland Oregon
How can those people sit still??!!!!
I wonder that myself, I can't stop moving my legs to the beat.
They must be intellectuals. Liking or enjoying music would be too plebeian, so they "appreciate" it instead.
I agree, I would be up and dancing!
Oh, c'mon!
Just love it!
No, really seven D strings. Fiddles are tuned DDAD, so that's six, plus one for Molly.
Thank you, Ididn't hear what the tuning was at the beginning. That's what I wanted to know.
She could e tuned DADGAD.i tuned mine like that last night ,very Celtic
Might be fun to know who the other guy is...
Music that is timeless
I love Coplands Rodeo!