CD Giveaway: Chee-Yun's 'Sentimental Memories'

February 23, 2019, 1:47 PM · This week we are giving away five signed copies of Chee-Yun's newly-released CD, Sentimental Memories. The crossover CD of popular sentimental songs and pieces, arranged by Kenji Bunch, is newly released in America, but it has actually been a hit in Korea for a long time, having been released there 17 years ago! You can read more about it in our interview with Chee-Yun.

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To enter, make sure you are logged in, then simply comment below by telling us your favorite sentimental song - the cheesier the better!

(BTW the songs on her album include: Ave Maria by Caccini; Old Romance by Svirodov; Oblivion by Piazzolla; A Song from a Secret Garden; I Dreamt I Dwelt in a Marble Hall; To Trengo Fevigl Sits Okto; Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso; Somewhere in Time; Nadia’s Theme; What’ll I Do; Hymne a L’amour; As Time Goes By; Stranger in Paradise; Lascia Ch’io Pianga..I think that's all!)

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Linda Hodges

February 23, 2019 at 09:07 PM · Beethoven Romance in G

puikhin yong

February 23, 2019 at 09:45 PM · Meditation

Kasia Haroldsen

February 23, 2019 at 09:58 PM · Cinema Paradiso

stephen levine

February 23, 2019 at 09:59 PM · To a wild rose

Michael Kennedy

February 23, 2019 at 10:13 PM · Danny Boy.

stephen irving

February 23, 2019 at 10:56 PM · Cinema Paradiso

Mark Bouquet

February 23, 2019 at 11:45 PM · Danny Boy has a whole new aura after the Coen brothers film, "Millers Crossing."

Anyway, I'll pick "Somewhere," by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

Tom Holzman

February 23, 2019 at 11:49 PM · I go with Edith Piaf's "Non, Je ne Regrette Rien."

Dawson Weber

February 24, 2019 at 12:12 AM · Jerome Kern, "All the Things You Are"

Bobby Baremore

February 24, 2019 at 01:47 AM · "Ave Maria" I can feel the music in my soul.

Celine K.

February 24, 2019 at 02:51 AM · I love lots of those, but the one on my mind is "Smile", written by Charlie Chaplin.

Julie Wong

February 24, 2019 at 03:10 AM · Gershwin Short Story

Kunio Chan

February 24, 2019 at 03:37 AM · Romeo and Juliet Theme song (1968)

Helen Smit

February 24, 2019 at 01:27 PM · Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze

Andrew Victor

February 24, 2019 at 03:26 PM · "Largo" from Vivaldi'a "Winter" concerto.

Dion Bouguenon

February 24, 2019 at 05:14 PM · As time Goes By

Linda Wolpert

February 25, 2019 at 12:24 AM · I'll Be Seeing You, from Mahler3

Adalberto Valle-Rivera

February 25, 2019 at 01:10 AM · Glazunov's Entr'acte, from Raymonda Op. 57 (arranged for Violin & Piano by Konstantin Rodionov).

Must again be very thankful for this forum-a member's kindness allowed me to obtain a copy of this great short piece.

Applogies for it not being a song-I am not well-learned in famous or important sentimental, popular songs. Just thought the piece does convey these feelings.

Gabriel Soloff

February 25, 2019 at 04:12 AM · I'm so sappy it's hard to choose. I'll go with Hallelujah - not Handel's version.

Brent Hudson

February 25, 2019 at 04:36 AM · "Louise". -- Bonnie Raitt

Erik Williams

February 25, 2019 at 07:22 AM · Ah, Kenji Bunch! I took a composition masterclass with him when I was around 14. I just watched the VHS video of it recently.

Jennifer Cooke

February 25, 2019 at 03:15 PM · Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso.

Warren Wu

February 25, 2019 at 05:32 PM · Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky String Quartet #1

Paul Deck

February 25, 2019 at 06:25 PM · "Some Other Time" by Leonard Bernstein.

Here it is, with Barbra Streisand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbCLc_SV-fo

And with Jane Monheit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzLAGhbtR9I

Yeah ... that's a show-stopper.

Just last Friday I heard this piece sung live by Isabel Leonard (spectacular!) with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (led by John Mauceri) on their tour celebrating Bernstein's 100th birthday -- so of course it was an all-Bernstein show. I saw them at Virginia Tech's flagship performance venue, the Moss Center. If you can catch this tour, it is not to be missed.

Then on Saturday I had a restaurant gig playing the piano with a bassist friend of mine, and I took my own turn with "Some Other Time," doing my best to channel my inner Bill Evans. Evans recorded it at least three times (once with Tony Bennett).

Lilith Rayne-Martin

February 25, 2019 at 08:29 PM · This was an easy choice for me.

My wife and I had a simple wedding at the Japanese Gardens near where I live. It was amazing and I didn't believe it could get better. We didn't get a honeymoon and we didn't care. That night, though, I walk into our livingroom and she turns on "At Last" by Etta James. We danced to that song and it was better than anything in my dreams.