Adele Is Back, Hello!

She’s back and is as stunning as ever! A lot of fans worldwide have been waiting for Adele’s comeback for an eternity it seems. And she brought them the joy by presenting the new song “Hello” released in October 2015.

Adele in the music video to the song "Hello"

As we know, Adele took a pause in writing music having dedicated herself to the family and the new-born son. We also know that Adele doesn’t write songs without inspiration and huge personal involvement. This is why everyone was patiently waiting to hear the new hits from the new Adele so much. When you first hear the title of the new song – Hello – you may think that it’s just a symbolic “Hello, everyone, I’m back!”, but it’s definitely not.

The comeback song symbolizes a telephone conversation of Adele with the younger version of herself. It is a dialog with all those who used to be a part of the singer’s life and no longer are. An iconic song that once again stresses the importance of finding strengths to move on whatever happens in life. The vocals are stunning as always and the message as global as it can be, concerning way too many of us. Hello from the other side..

Hello is the lead single from the upcoming album by Adele under the simple title “25”. Let us hope that the new album of the ‘grown-up’ Adele is even more powerful as her previous work (due in November 2015, soon!).

The Eternal Ave Maria

Since early times, men of art have been dedicating a good part of their creative work to religious themes. Virgin Mary is perhaps one of the biggest religious objects of inspiration for painters, poets and, of course, musicians. The majority of greatest composers of all time have at least a piece dedicated to the Blessed Mother of God.

Despite the big number of such music compositions, there’s still one that can now be called almost unrivaled, and that’s the Ave Maria by Schubert (a music setting of "Ellen's Third Song" from Walter Scott’s poem “The Lady of the Lake”). This piece is recognized and played worldwide and is perhaps the major dedication to the Blessed Virgin.

So many versions of Ave Maria appeared since the moment of its creation. Both classical composers of the past and contemporary ones made their own arrangement of the piece. In order to present their own vision of the composition musicians have gone through various experiments. Here’s a video of the piece performed on musical saw. To me it sounds very harmonious and the high poignant ‘voice’ of the saw suit the image perfectly.

In fact, to my own surprise I found out that the size of the repertoire for the musical saw is quite extensive. Moreover, there were composers who created music specifically for this instrument (Penderecki, Minden, Enescu).

I believe that some eternal composition like Ave Maria are so refined that would sound admirably played on whatever instrument.