![]() That's because "OSM" montages try to capture the spirit of every team. It can be difficult to guess the NCAA men's basketball champion based solely on the first two minutes of any "OSM" montage. It's completely cheesy and doesn't hold up well to the test of time. ![]() With its tootles and honks, "One Shining Moment" is clearly an '80s song. For many of these players, playing in the NCAA tournament might be the pinnacle of their basketball-playing lives. Some of these players could be playing the last games of their college careers. Which may be why he weaves in the theme of mortality: And Barrett knows even in the greatest game ever played, there can be but one winner. The song evokes not just a basketball game, but the greatest basketball game ever played. "The ball is tipped / and there you are / You're running for your life / You're a shooting star." Those are the first four lines of "One Shining Moment" - the lyrical equivalent of a giant, soaring bald eagle clutching two flaming basketballs in its talons.īarrett's lyrics blend hyperbole and majesty, the real and the sublime. You can nail down OSM's fandom to four elements: "One Shining Moment" is undeniably cheesy, but people still love it. Why do people enjoy "One Shining Moment"? But the song's lyrics and earnest message about playing beautiful basketball didn't. The piano sound changed, as did the bass, Barrett said. The song, along with the montage, grew with every new version. In 1994, CBS switched to a version by Teddy Pendergrass:Īnd in 2003, it used Luther Vandross's version of the song: Barrett's version of the song played after Indiana's one-point win over Syracuse the next year, and it played at the end of the NCAA men's basketball broadcast until 1993: I went home and wrote it."įrom there, Barrett shopped the song around through a friend, and it settled with CBS. "The next thing I knew, I had this inner dialogue going on, and somehow, ‘one shining moment’ came out of my mouth and I knew exactly what I was going to do. Then the phrase came to me, that he was in the moment," Barrett told. "I tried to explain to her how amazing was. Barrett attempted to translate Bird's greatness into song in a bid to impress a waitress. In the 1985–86 NBA season, Bird was averaging 25.8 points per game, 9.8 rebounds per game, and 6.8 assists per game, as well as shooting close to 50 percent from the field - a stellar year that ended in a championship for Bird and the Celtics. ![]() Lewis.)īarrett said in an interview with that he created the song while watching Larry Bird play. (Sadly, he did not win his Emmy for "One Shining Moment" but rather for scoring a PBS documentary on C.S. When people talk about "One Shining Moment," they're referring to the musical montage that plays at the conclusion of the NCAA men's basketball national championship game.Įmmy award–winning composer David Barrett created the song in 1986. This powerful combination of '80s piano, earnest lyrics, and clips of players crying has the power to bring college basketball fans together and, perhaps most important, give a proper sendoff to the season. ![]() It's about hoping "your" team can win it all.īut even though college basketball fans can be contentious and quarrelsome, there will be three minutes after the game when everyone puts aside their differences: the One Shining Moment montage. College basketball isn't about making friends. While this is a momentous occasion for fans of those teams, many college basketball fans will be rooting for the whole thing to be over so that the next season can start, so their team has another shot at the title. On Monday, April 6, Wisconsin and Duke will battle for the NCAA men's basketball championship. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You learn about yourself through how your friends see you.” The video for “B.O.T.A” – an Alice in Wonderland-style descent into Hackney’s queer scene which features a starry cast of drag and performance artists – is itself a testament to friendship: filmed on a minuscule budget, it was directed by one of Rose’s best friends, Jeanie Crystal, the founder of Faboo TV, and she knows everyone who took part, even if only through conversations in club smoking areas. “Friendship is just as important as the notion of romantic love. “Female friendship runs through everything I do,” she says. ![]() The song is intended to be nostalgic, but it’s a nostalgia anyone can relate to, whether they’re an older person reflecting on another era, or an 18-year-old reminiscing about the previous summer.Īs well as being a DJ, Rose is a fiction writer who has just finished her first novel – What Happens in Dreamland – which portrays a friendship between two women who are both, in their own ways, in bad situations. When she first heard the instrumental (she wrote the lyrics and top-line melody, Interplanetary Criminal wrote the music), she imagined it being played at an arcade in the 90s: fairground rides, cheap candy floss, throwing up, being 14 years old and kissing a boy. “How I write is very image-led,” Rose says. The song is extremely catchy, which no doubt has contributed to its success, but there’s also something deeply evocative about it. “It’s a little bit trashy, a little bit Euro,” says Rose. “B.O.T.A” has elements of UK garage, which remains one of Rose’s biggest inspirations, and maybe a little dash of PC Music, but really it’s a tribute to 90s dance. The tagline reads: “the baddest one chick hit squad which ever hit town.” “She’s the ultimate figure of female empowerment for me,” says Rose, “and even if it’s not an obvious reference, I think some of that strength permeated the song.” It makes her happy that the song has resonated so much among young women, Black and queer communities in her words, “people living themselves authentically, doing what they want that makes them happy and going against norms.” Anyone who enjoys the song, and feels empowered while listening to it, instantly becomes “the baddest of them all.” ![]() The song’s title and central refrain is inspired by Coffy, a 1973 Blaxploitation film which stars Pam Grier as a woman vigilante. For it now to be at number two is insane.” “But never in a million years did I think it would get into the charts. “I thought the underground scene would love it, and I knew that it was quite a special song,” she tells me, as we begin our white wine-fuelled stroll through Dalston, the area she grew up. Soon, it was everywhere, achieving a level of ubiquity which Rose hadn’t anticipated. “B.O.T.A” first gained traction in London’s club scene, but it wasn’t until Glastonbury that it really took off. ![]() But you probably have done, at some point: on the radio, at a festival, blaring out of a passing car on a sultry evening, the soundtrack to any number of TikToks where people lip-sync the lyrics while clearly feeling themselves (and good for them!) Now hovering at number two in the charts, “B.O.T.A” marks the long-awaited end of the “song of the summer” recession we’ve been suffering for years. If you still haven’t heard it, I have some upsetting news about your grasp on the cultural zeitgeist. It’s a snapshot of Hackney’s underground culture that is thriving.Future historians will look back on this as the summer of rail strikes, Elf Bars, climate breakdown, spiralling living costs, and “B.O.T.A (Baddest of Them All)”, a dance track by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal. We exist as a whole so all the performers have a connection through collaboration and friendship and that’s what makes the success of BOTA all the more amazing. "It’s all about community and supporting each other’s art. She was always so supportive of my work with Faboo and was adamant I direct her first single's video. "I’ve known Eliza for a long time as we used to DJ together in pubs across Hackney. "This was one of the most chaotic and magical shoots of my life! Having this much energy in one space is a director's dream!" says Jeanie Crystal. The bold colours and unique styling exude a sense of freedom and nostalgia, whilst the spotlight on different characters in the video helps boost the profiles of local creatives.Ĭrystal is co-founder of queer arts collective Faboo, and this video announces their ambitions to be a leading creative force for queer artists and queer ally artists. Shot on a budget of mostly love and lip-gloss, the video shows Eliza Rose heading out to the club, hanging with friends and taking over the dancefloor. 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![]() ![]() Mozart’s 27 piano concertos comprise the largest body of piano concertos that are regularly heard in concert halls, although (scandalously) a relatively small handful are regularly performed. 2 in B flat major.Ĭlick to load video 3: Mozart: Piano Concerto In C Minor, K491 Also, hear Brahms’s vast, great-hearted, and utterly different Piano Concerto No. The D minor concerto’s slow movement has been shown to evoke the words “Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini”, suggesting that the work, completed in 1858, is Brahms’s personal Requiem for his mentor. Only months after he and Clara had extended their friendship to the young genius from Hamburg, Schumann suffered a devastating breakdown, attempted suicide, and was thereafter incarcerated in a mental asylum for the rest of his days, dying there in 1856. It was profoundly affected by the fate of Robert Schumann. This concerto took two different forms – symphony, then two-piano sonata – before settling down as a concerto. Finally, the premiere took place in 1924 in Paris, with the composer as its soloist. As if that was not bad enough, the manuscript was then destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Prokofiev had to reconstruct it. Prokofiev had already started work on the piece, but its trajectory was transformed. 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Love it or loathe it, Turangalîla remains a one-off experience.Ĭlick to load video 13: Bach: Keyboard Concerto In D Minor Yvonne’s sister Jeanne Loriod was this instrument’s chief exponent. ![]() Turangalîla combines eclectic influences, including Indian spirituality, Indonesian gamelan, and a synaesthetic fusion of color with sound and the composer tops the lot with an ondes martenot, the electronic swoops of which made it a favorite in the scores of horror movies. It was premiered in Boston in 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and was written for the French pianist Yvonne Loriod, whom Messiaen later married. It’s not called a concerto, but Olivier Messiaen’s gargantuan ten-movement symphony to love, sex, God, and the universe features a solo piano part that could defeat any concerto on home turf. And I have broken the rule in any case… Scroll down to explore our selection of the greatest piano concertos. My one rule is to include only one concerto by each composer, but this does, naturally, give you the chance to explore the competition from their other works too. I’ve therefore picked 15, but some ace favorites are still missing, and I am horrified to find that the list is all-male. Supposing you’re at a shoe shop and you have free rein to select the slinkiest, most stratospherically-heeled jobs on the rack, but what you actually need is a good pair of hiking trainers… Oh, and can you bring yourself to leave the purple suede slingbacks behind? This is rather like trying to choose the top ten best piano concertos from a repertoire so rich that it could keep us happy listening to nothing else for the rest of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the 360 degree fully-fit design, you will feel your flavor, not a pod. It is also designed with intelligent child-proof mode to prevent children from accidentally starting. ![]() 0.69 inch OLED screen shows you the information of device. 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