400.04 - Happy Birthday - Vera Lynn - 2014

Born in 1917 in London, England, singer Vera Lynn began performing at age of 7. She gave up school at age 11 to start touring. By the late 1930s, Lynn had become a popular radio performer, appearing on the program Life from Mayfair. She got her own show, Sincerely Yours, in 1941. After World War II ended, Lynn made more albums and continued to tour. She had a No. 1 hit in the United States, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart," in the early 1950s. Queen Elizabeth II made Lynn a dame of the British Empire in 1975. In 2009, she topped the British album charts with We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

Lynn also traveled abroad during the war, performing live shows for the troops. In 1941, she married Harry Lewis, a musician with the Royal Air Force's band. Lynn ranked No. 1 on a poll regarding soldiers' favorite entertainer, beating out the likes of Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, and became known as the "Forces' Sweetheart."

In 2009, Lynn made a remarkable return to the British music charts. She was 92 years old at the time—becoming the oldest person to have the No. 1 top-selling album in the country—with the collection We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. That same year, she published the memoir Some Sunny Day.

Happy Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz-RaBsp56g

As Time Goes By
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cS0fXZkbao

We'll Meet Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

Autumn Leaves
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7043133932689297639#editor/target=post;postID=7605416430434769090

400.02 - Capital Children's Choir

The Capital Children's Choir is a children's choir based in London, England. The choir was founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Rachel Santesso and is currently made up of 120 members aged seven to eighteen. As well as performing classical repertoire, the choir is well known for its choral and orchestral reinterpretations of famous pop songs and their videos have received well over 3.5 million views to date within the popular video-sharing site YouTube.
Members of the choir perform in the presence of Pope Benedict at St. Peter’s Basilica during morning Mass on the first anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death. (April 2, 2006).

Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZjcfZ2pWtM

Shake It Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj-ntawOBw4

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zo5z1I0CeM

Who Is It?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqexzxj8Vk

400.01 - Les Miserables

Les Miserables

The motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France,the film tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption - a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Ex-prisoner Jean Valjean is hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.

Anne Hathaway - I Dreamed A Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dny7QqAXfts

Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Anniversary Dream Cast Concert (2:27)hrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmF9el0S7k

300.08 - Cameron Carpenter - Popular Organist

A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, Carpenter takes an approach to the organ that is smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music while generating a level of acclaim, exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist. His repertoire – from the complete works of J. S. Bach and César Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his original compositions, and his collaborations with jazz and pop artists – is perhaps the largest and most diverse of any organist. He is the first organist ever nominated for a Grammy for a solo album.

Sleigh Ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaJAJOi2ug
CBS "Sunday Morning" Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ApgF2s3LQ


Organ Revolutionary -Telarc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4Y-W1ur1c

Stars and Stripes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrhZ1-cPJE

300.07 - Marvin Hamlisch 1944-2012

Mr. Hamlisch was a 12-time Academy Award nominee for his score and song contributions to films as varied as “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Sophie’s Choice” and a three-time Oscar winner for the score of “The Sting” as well as the score from “The Way We Were” and its title song (with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). He won four Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards and a Tony Award for his score to the musical “A Chorus Line.” That musical, which blended bouncy, brassy songs like “One” and “Dance: Ten; Looks: Three” with melancholy numbers like “At the Ballet,” also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976.

A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NrNmUNwFp8

The Music of Marvin Hamlisch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDrIWD2yKc

The Entertainer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaB9HfMN5h8&feature=related

A Chorus Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0iIoWePYI&feature=related

The Way We Were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcEOug9lb2Q&feature=related

300.06 - Mars Rover Curiosity

NASA's $2.5-billion mission involved the work of more than 5,000 people from 37 states, some of whom had labored for 10 years to hear the two words that Al Chen, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, said inside mission control at 10:32 p.m.: “Touchdown confirmed.”

Chen reported that Curiosity was in a “nice flat place,” and as icing on the cake, the spacecraft sent home thumbnail photographs of itself. Officials had said earlier in the day that photographs were possible but unlikely. Curiosity responded by immediately delivering a series of images, one showing one of its wheels resting comfortably on the floor of an ancient crater.

Historic Landing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNviFQpRvwQ

Curiosity Final Preparations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xm8WfZ3Ed4

Curiosity Landing - ABC News Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLaC1VYoTM

300.05 - HMS Titantic - 1912 - 2012

On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage, sailing from Southampton, England, to New York City. One of the largest and most luxurious passenger liners at the time, the Titanic was also considered by many to be unsinkable. On April 14, however, the ship struck an iceberg, and early the next day it sank. Some 1,500 people perished. Because of the tragedy, the Titanic became perhaps the best-known ship in the world, capturing the public imagination and inspiring popular books and movies. After the 1985 discovery of its wreckage, interest in the famed liner only increased. Some 100 years after its sinking, the Titanic remains an enduring legend.

Titantic Secrets - Documentary

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkhWWqvHRc&feature=channel&list=UL

Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOMA2M0QJo&feature=bf_prev&list=ULpjngYGTGe-A&lf=channel

Part3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjngYGTGe-A&feature=bf_next&list=ULWXOMA2M0QJo&lf=channel

Part4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6ww0faWco&feature=bf_next&list=ULpjngYGTGe-A&lf=channel

Part5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtna-YeG1C8&feature=bf_next&list=ULWs6ww0faWco&lf=channel

Part6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETlF8H-61o&feature=bf_next&list=ULwtna-YeG1C8&lf=channel

Part7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQFkqm57SUI&feature=bf_next&list=ULTETlF8H-61o&lf=channel

Part8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYuUvpnJcpc&feature=bf_next&list=ULnQFkqm57SUI&lf=channel

Part9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyZoQX_5zQ&feature=bf_next&list=ULNYuUvpnJcpc&lf=channel

Part10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2m8Z1Je-0&feature=bf_next&list=ULlbyZoQX_5zQ&lf=channel

Part11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWEkXcmELY&feature=bf_next&list=ULFK2m8Z1Je-0&lf=channel

Making of the Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_m48Qhmcmk&feature=related

Theme Song - Celine Dion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saalGKY7ifU

Titantic Museum - Branson, MO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD4o8ZRa-I