Rachel Flowers Plays The Endless Enigma -- Tribute to Keith Emerson
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2017
- Rachel Flowers Plays The Endless Enigma -- Tribute to Keith Emerson. Rachel Flowers was one of several performers paying Tribute to the Life of Keith Emerson. This was a one time performance at Symphony Hall In Birmingham, England, July 28, 2017. I apologize for the periodic shakiness of the video, I have an 18-300mm zoom lens that was nearly at maximum zoom where even slight moves appear as big ones since I had no no tripod. I don't know who cried more, Rachel or me!
Three people had to give a thumbs down for a blind woman that plays beautifully, and gets emotional at the loss of a great musician and friend (Keith Emerson)during his tribute? Time for you to live among the other apes and through feces at each other. You are not worthy to be exposed to such beauty.
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I absolutely agree with you! One needs to be a miserable and disrespectful bastard to even think about giving this performance a thumbs down. If the person started watching and did not like it, IT should have moved along and go watch a 50cent video.
@@joaocoelho7331 to be fair: you have to express everything with a single thumb. I enjoyed and cried and told myself that's yet another reason for living and everything :) . But what about the audio quality? And somebody, maybe not even knowing the author, the executioner, the music, might be more sensitive to that than I am.
@Charles Ross Me neither. This is one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking and heartwarming things I've ever seen.
I could not agree more w/your comment..I play this whenever I think I've had a hard day!
I don't think there could be any greater tribute than Rachel's tears. Cut right through me.
I know me too.
:')
Ditto.😢
Right? It was difficult getting thru that...watching it, I mean, without breaking down myself!
I hope someday I have the highest honor of meeting this extraordinary young lady. I believe the spirit of Keith Noel Emerson is with her always now ! RIP "Fingers" and thank you so much Rachel !
Everyone should shed a tear. A genuis finished out his life tragically, and a sweet soul carries on his legacy with such love and devotion. It should touch us deeply.
Anyone who doesn't weep watching this isnt human
I'm extra human it seems.
If only the rest of the world could feel music the way she does it'd be a much more peaceful & beautiful place to live.
Poor thing - she felt it so hard she cried. Beautiful and sad at the same time. God bless her.
This is a perfect example of "the show must go on". Openly weeping, seconds before embarking on a VERY difficult piece of music, is not ideal,
but Rachel is a real pro, and she pulled it off immaculately. No bum notes, no rushed passages, no mistakes. Wow.
In 200 years when they talk about classical music, Keith Emerson will be considered one of the 20th centuries greatest.
Many of us will be living in colonies on Mars by then,studying the Baby Boomer Generation and their lives and culture.
They have names for the eras: baroque, classical, romantic, etc. How will they refer to this era of Emerson and Wakeman?
Emerson made a truly 20th century composition in Tarkus in my opinion, that seemed heavily influenced by a Ginastera piano sonata.
Chris fromIowa yes, just yes!
Marissa Elene Nadieja is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is a prolific composer and one of the most unique vocalists in the world. She is the BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rachel shows us the best the humaniry is able to produce: high sensitivity, hard work, emotion, and love.
There was never a more faithful student of ELP than Rachel Flowers. She gets it on every level: musical, philosophical, emotional. They’re all geniuses and she’s in that special club. Much deserved.
Her timing is also superb! I've known keyboardists who could play at least parts of ELP's music but their timing was so poor it was usually impossible to play along with them (as a drummer).
It's not easy to make me cry. But I wept buckets at this. Not just the loss of Keith, but the fact that somebody, who had lost her inspirational figure, was so devastated...
Me, too, brother.
When you can cry, you both understand love as well the music. I lost someone I valued so much, but she needn't be considered dead as we still can share the best they gave us.
I'm 63, 6 foot 2, 276 pounds, flame and skull tattoos and I didn't cry. Well, maybe a little bit. Okay, I cried! It doesn't help one of my tattoos is the "Tankadillo" from the Tarkus album design. At my (murdered by her husband) daughter-in-law's funeral service, I requested "From The Beginning" played. Fuckers didn't. Those bastards anyway...Oh, Rachel's from about 1/2 mile from where I was born (12/19/54) Small world...
Crying my eyes out as well
If you Loved Keith, and Greg (and Carl) of course you will be crying buckets for this....Rachel is so awesome. Covering her favorite guy.....how awesome is this!!! Don’t know how she got through it.......This is just incredible!!!
As musicians we try to put emotion into our playing. This gives us glimpse of what Rachel feels ALL THE TIME. Unabashedly, she invites us into her joy, her pain, her grief. She touches our souls just as Keith Emerson touched Rachel's. How lucky we were to have Keith, and how lucky and blessed we are to have Rachel's incandescent spirit. She is an incarnated Muse that walks among us.
WOW! Perfect....
Putting your soul into what you’re playing is the hardest part of being a musician. The mechanics of it is the easier part
EVERYTIME I WATCH THIS I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES 😭 I ❤ RACHEL
So glad someone recorded this. As a lifelong ELP, thank you. I was very moved myself
Rachel Flowers is a genius on the level of Mozart. And I'm not exaggerating. Wherever he is, Keith is very, very proud.
yea, i think that needed to be clarified. agree!
No, she's not. Your ignorance is showing. She is a very good player though, and her hightend hearing is unique to her.. and a few others of recent decades. But her body of work can't compare to Mozart or Bach or most any other composer. You detract from her other greatness by saying such things.
@@morbidmanmusic "You detract from her other greatness by saying such things."
Bullshit. I was referring only to her ingenious abilities as a composer and musician. If I were to comment about all her amazing talents and accomplishments that most people could never hope to achieve whether they're blind or not, it would be way too long.
Rachel is the real deal, a musical savant. Her timing and dynamics are those of a world class player. Her tears those of someone who is profoundly in love with music. What a pleasure to hear her play. Her blindness is almost incidental in the bigger picture of her artistry.
Bravo! Well said.
We all cry together at his loss. We’re all crying. 😢❤😢 music for the soul and uniting all us crazy, lovable, unique humans.
She's breaking my HEART...she's CRYING...THE SWEET THING...........BLIND AND BRILLIANT...the original blithe spirit.....I'm so in LOVE......
OK why did I open this ?- I'm blubbering like a baby now. Long live ELP.
John Holland Me too
It’s a big club mate!
I'd watched this video dozens of times... I can't manage not to cry myself seeing Rachel's delicate reaction. You're a treasury to humanity, Rachel ! RIP Keith!
I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a more heartfelt, beautiful tribute in all my life. Keith Emerson would be so proud! Well done Rachel! Well done!
I .... when Kieth Emerson died, I got out all the records and CDs, and I cried for a week. I didn't realize what an influence he had been in my life. I own four or five synths and I can't even play! Every time I see this I weep. I weep for all our loss and especially for the amazing relationship Rachel had with Kieth. Your loss is so great and the love shows through. Thank you Rachel for being such an amazing artist and such an inspiration! Please keep this legacy alive with your loving kindness.
Dear Frank Plughoff: This is a well-written wonderful heartfelt paragraph. I am curious: You purchased five synths -- and yet you do not play, why?
@@eddyvideostar Because you don't have to "play" to make music with synths. I might just be scientifically minded and enjoy the math of creating sounds and exploring harmonic resonance. I might love love all the switches, knobs and patch points. There are a thousand reasons. I was touched beginning with (then) Walter Carlos and all of the synth practitioners since. Do I have to "play" in order to enjoy synthesis?
Hard to imagine 72 people gave this a thumbs down. Emerson was perhaps the best keyboardist/performer in his day, bit in my history. And this woman nails it. Give her 5 ups.
Keith was great, but To make those claims is just silly. You don't listen to many keyboard players then.
In 1971-2, I was exiting a department store with my mother and little sister and realized that I had not noticed the music playing over their building-wide speaker system. Instead of the typical elevator Muzak, the standard at that time, some exceptional individual was instead playing "Lucky Man" throughout the store building. As I was holding the door for my mother and sister to exit towards the parking area, Keith's Moog solo began. The memory of this moment is crystal-clear to me up to this very second, giving me chills as I write this.
I froze. "What, what is that?", I wondered, completely mesmerized by the sound. Fortunately, I was able to clearly hear Greg's voice singing the chorus and was able to later identify the song from the lyrics. I was hooked and obsessed. This led to repeated ELP concerts, Dick Hyman's and Walter Carlos's Moog albums, and my fascination with what I learned was a sin-the-zizz-zer (in my young mind).
Keith, in this moment, inspired me into keyboards, to the point that I tried to construct a Von Yanko modification of the upright piano which I had begged my mother to purchase. This directly led to creating mechanical drawings (no CAD back then), to fabricating & designing parts in a machine shop, which began my life-long career as an engineer for research groups.
Thank you forever Keith, you inspired and changed my life. (tears)
watching Rachel cry makes me cry. I have gotten to talk to her but we have not met . I know she loved Keith...didn't we all?
To feel is to believe!
I had the privilege of being contemporary with great composers. Just to mention two, Keith Emerson and Frank Zappa. Rachel I think is in my assent, she reads vibration, beauty and truth
with all her being. Exciting to tears. Thanks Rachel for the Tribute!
Rachel crying made me tear up...her love of ELP music is overwhelming.
A true artist. She plays from deep inside her heart.
It takes an orchestra to play what 3 men used to play alone. ;-) ELP was SO fantastic.
K G
MN
I think Keith would have liked to have heard an orchestra doing his keyboard licks (even if they're only doing it about 3/4 speed). Am more convinced than ever -- his stuff will live on long after we're all gone!!
Great comment
ELP did play with an Orchestra when they toured their Works album. A full orchestra would rise on a hydraulic platform, while the three band members played on a smaller stage beneath the orchestra. The show was far to costly and they were forced to drop the orchestra about half way through the tour. By the time I saw them, the orchestra was already dropped, but I guess they had already paid for the hydraulic stage riser, because the three ELP members rose out of a hole in the stage in a cloud of smoke at the start of the show. I read that they lost a lot of money on that tour, because of the decision to include a full orchestra for every gig. I think they finally sort of broke even, when they cut costs, but that was only after months of touring and playing their guts out for every show.
I saw them @ Hartford Civic Center -- Works tour- in 1977. Just a couple nights after they had abandoned the orchestra. They still rocked it. Loved it. Sometime later, the roof of the Hartford Civic Center collapsed, and I always believed it was --- because the Hartford show was one of the 1st (maybe the 1st?) shows ELP did that year without the orchestra. Yep.
That much emotion, and she doesn't miss a frickin' note. That is the real deal right there.
Actually she does; but nevertheless it is an amazing achievement so a big thank you and a lot of respect.
OK, “doesn’t miss a note” was likely a little hyperbolic- we can agree it is a lovely achievement nonetheless.
@@ianddavidson1: What note did she miss?
@@eddyvideostar 6:59 was a little rough. Not really a big deal though, most sighted keyboardists can't play Emerson's music as well as Rachel does!
Dear: @John L Rice: What should I be seeing at 6:59 minutes?
I do not understand.
My God I'm bawling like a baby
That was spiritual
Keith & Greg.The world is a lesser place without you. But we do have this angel of music Rachel to remind us of what was & what could be.
This young Lady is truly gifted by God.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence!
You have a belief from your imagination and that is all.. .
I'm sure she'd rather see,... and play god is your lazy thing. Let's poor children die of starvation... but gives music? I'm a musician for life and would give that up for no poverty ... so, if it was a gift... it's a bad one.
Prove that god... there are many great atheist musicians and ones you like and don't even know it...
I cried too. Keith, Greg,Carl, what we owe you is unfathomable....
Ame.
*Amen.
@@donnysarian Same here! 🙂
What a rare, beautiful display of the human condition. I’m a hardcore misanthropist too, so for a human to make me cry, or even so much as give me goosebumps you know it’s got to be beautiful... Not to mention the loss of Kieth Emerson alone is pretty sad. RIP Keith Emerson, you know you are special for this extremely talented young lady to have chosen you to be her mentor. 🌹
It's okay to cry, Rachel, we are all sad.
Don't sweat the camera, brother. Your tribute to Rachel as she gives tribute to Keith is an honor to them both.
Mr. Emerson, thank you for your music. Rest in Peace.
This is humanity at its finest moment- Rachel mourning her hero by playing his music, as I mourn those bands like ELP and YES that will never come again- but I rejoice that I lived through that time.
Absolutely wonderful to see such love and affection for Keith. I am delighted to say I got the chance to see ELP play live in the 70s. RIP Greg and Keith.
Just returned from ProgStock where Rachel dazzled. Then found this and the tears flowed. She loved Keith so much. Such a sweetie.
Thank you Keith, Greg and Carl for your fabulous music and for giving this wonderful lady the inspiration to play your music...Rachel you must be one of the most talented human beings on this planet....bless you xx
Heartbreaking yet a joy at the same time watching rachael react to the beautiful music and her obvious love for Keith 💛
Thank you, Rachel, for sharing your wonderful gifts. Keith loved you and your devotion. Clearly, you feel similarly. Say what you want about Mr. Emerson, his technical gifts as a composer and piano keyboardist were and are unmatched by any other popular recording artist. One of a kind.
talk about someone who truly sees the sheer beauty of the music, created by a genius. Blessings to Rachel. May she always be on an upward spiral of refining her talents. Mr. Emerson would be proud.
Never before seen a performer so moved by the beauty of the music that she sheds tears at the piano........
So beautiful and emotional. The Endless Enigma is one of my favorite ELP pieces. I don't think I will ever quite get over the loss of both Keith and Greg within 9 months of each other. But their wonderful music lives on. Thank you, Rachel and orchestra!
toomanycats13 ... Too True, Blue!!!
toomanycats13 ...Too True, Blue!!!
Marissa Elene Nadieja is the BEST composer/singer EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! She is unique, creativity, original and innovative. BEST of all she is ONE OF A KIND. It is MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WARNING . Ragnhilde and Nadieja are the same person !
Thank you so much Rachel! You are really an Angel!
she is so sweet , i cry for her...what a lovely person !!!!
I’ve seen this over a dozen times. Every time I can’t stop crying. I miss him so.
I came...
l listened...
I saw...
I cried.
I left, my soul a little more enriched from the humanity of this...
That was beautiful!!! I know we all miss Keith and Greg but the music of ELP will live on with people like Rachel!
Nick Tucker well said.
Nick Tucker perfect
Nick Tucker loop
This young woman Feels EVERY note and nuance. It’s beautiful to watch and listen to. ❤️❤️
Rachel and Keith shared a special bond. Both as musicians, and as very sensitive people. I was crying right along with her. It is so sad when you lose someone who was one of your heroes and helped make you what you have become. Be it your Dad, your Mom, or someone else who really helped shape who you are. Remember folks, life IS about relationships.
No man is an island.
I really hate exceptionally gifted geniuses. I hate artistically gifted people who are geniuses. Join me with my hate. I hate Marissa Elene Nadieja with a passion. She is a serious genius. I hate people like her. They make me feel so insecure, jealous, small and insignificant. I hate hate hate her and people like her. Marissa Elene Nadieja is a rare genius that is so artistically gifted that it makes me feel like jumping in the river. I hate people like her!!!!!!!!!! Hate!!!!
WARNING . agnethna and Nadieja is the same person . Yes , she's bonkers .
Hate's an awfully strong word, Dookapoodie Jiminy
This is when you try to explane " The Emerson's music comes straight to the heart..." Sweetie Girl...Amazing performance.
Rachel Flowers...without words...thank you for the endless Enigma and Emotions
I have a loss for words to describe Rachel's emotional tribute to Keith Emerson in such a classic piece.
Speaks to the power and the beauty of music and the human spirit. The tears don't flow easily from me, but this performance surely did.
I was so touched by Rachel's emotions, that I was reduced to tears. Well done Rachel!
We all cry with you Rachel. You bring us tears of joy through your love and understanding of music.
Music is a window into the heart. Whatever else he may have appeared on the outside, there was beauty inside Emerson. Rachel Flowers clearly sees this.
Man i almost had to call a plumber watching Rachel. Thank you Jeanie Flowers for keeping Rachel's dreams alive as well as EMO. Love ya both
It made me cry too. Maybe because I see her cry, or maybe because I thought „What an incredible beautiful piece of music“.
TheRaybo66 Me too
Don’t you dare forget that this world is filled with beautiful people and amazing things.
I’m dying and everything breaks my heart. Look at what we have and who we are. The smallest number of people cause the most damage and there is so much more than that. Thank you everybody, it’s been incredible. Keep the faith. Love and beauty is not dead.
Rachel kills me. She is just wonderful and keeps Keith alive forever. I am so grateful that a person like her exists.
Oh My god. Rachel, You are an extraordinary human being. You shaked my foundations !!!
Such a talented musician you are Rachel. I cried right along with you. The Endless Enigma is and always will be one of the great pieces of works by ELP . Thank you so very much for keeping their music alive.
broke my heart to see Rachel cry for Keith. I cried along with her....we all do! She gave a masterful performance! Way to go, Rachel.
Pure innocent love and commitment to a wonderful artist and one of his most ardent supporters.
As I watched this for the first time, I think I was looking through that image of Rachel and seeing the face of Keith in my head and then she and I collapsed in a heap inside at the same time .I then hurt for her. She knew him personally, as a friend. I did not have that pleasure. She lost a friend who brought an art so vivid and personal to her. I hurt for her. Rachel, please carry it forward. Take your music to whatever heights he has inspired in you and we will be with you the whole journey. I am so sorry he has left. I am so, very....
sustayne
sustayne my
Ugh. Right in the feels. So raw. So true. Beautiful.
Keep on playing it Rachel; his music lives on.
She made me cry too.
This is nice but it is not prog. It does not have an really pungent sound. It is just nice jazz. She is not prog. Marissa Elene Nadieja is highly unusual in the area of Prog and very individualist. Marissa is mind blowing without any help and her writing is not just easy listening jazz. She is phenomenal!!!!!!
WARNING . agnethna o and Nadieja are the same person .
@@agnethnao8247 get a hold of yourself. Rachel Flowers is much more awesome, and she is prog. You don't play ELP and not be prog, okay.
I'm not much of a "celebrity buff", but Keith Emerson is one of the (very) few people I never knew personally about whom I can say my world has been a better place because he lived. Watching this really stoked the emotions I feel about his passing and the heartbreaking pain he felt leading to it. I see from these comments I'm hardly alone in this sentiment and feel a link and gratitude to you all for sharing that.
Hey brothers and sisters how awesome 👏
I just love this young Angel of Music and have now bought all her albums.
I also cried with her. It was a beautiful performance.
How can you watch this and not feel her pain and anguish over the loss of her friend. What a tribute!! Beautiful.
Wow, this is beyond gut wrenching to watch or listen to. Poor Rachel, poor me.
She got through it like a trooper, what a strong woman! We are all the better for having witnessed it on YT.
Beautiful. Keith would be proud! His music lives on!!!
This is playing the piece, knowing it and expressing it all the way through. I hope that Ms. Flowers represents the new generation of beautiful, powerful music.
Very moving. My oldest Grandson is named Emerson. My Youngest Daughter was treated to a Lot Of ELP during her youth. Only got to see them once in the ‘70’s and it was as awe inspiring as this was. Thanks for sharing.🙏🏽
A truly beautiful performance. Anytime I feel a little under-inspired, I just watch a Rachel Flowers video.
I am sitting here watching this on UA-cam playing my instrument with tears roll down my face. This is beautiful. This is real about music .Thank you
I have seen her perform this live twice. I cried then. I'm crying now. 😢
Rachel, we were crying with you.
This is truly the power of talented musicians, to open up our emotions in such a beautiful way. I have listened to this piece a few times, and it still tears me apart. How lucky we are to have had such wonderful people in our lives.
I had wondered in another comment section how the death of Keith Emerson had affected Rachel.Seeing this beautiful emotional performance,I now have my answer.Rachel honey,I feel your tears.
I just adore Rachel Flowers. Jeez, I wish Keith were still around. So many loved him. Goshdarn social media swill.
Man, my heart go's out to the beautiful and talented Rachel.
This was tough on her. But, I think she has Keith's spirit guiding her to safety for a good, long, happy life.
She is wonderful in her own light.
Thanks for this clip. I cried a bit myself.
My word, Rachel, you are a beautiful human being. Fantastically well played, a fitting tribute to a man and musician you clearly loved. RIP Keith.
Keith Emmerson and Franz List are forming a band in heaven. The afterlife is gonna rock like nothing you've ever seen or heard!
This gave me goosebumps!... I love this song and I am so proud of you Rachel!!! Was so honored to sing this with you in our collaboration 2 years ago!
Keith Emerson was certainly a genius. I loved how he incorporates so much diversity into his music.! And the Pianist played so beautifully!
I cried every tear with her. Omg. So beautiful.
My tears are flowing like a river !
I too feel your loss !
OH GOD BLESS UOUR SOUL AND SHALL WE AWAYS REMEMBER KEITH EMERSON AND THE BEAUTIFUL MOVING MUSIC !!!
MISS YOU SO MUCH KEITH AND GREG !!
THANKYOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART !!!
Next time i want to give my tearducts a workout i`ll just watch this again.
ah hell....i just cried right along with this. I cry because there is no more genius left in the music world. Never in our lifetime will music this great be written again.
The sublime beauty of the piece and sense of loss must have been overwhelming. Thank you.
Playing beautiful music made by 2 friends she had lost. Touching.
kd were they actually her friends?
Innnnnnncredible! I cried right along with you little sister. Miss his brilliance so much.
I’m crying like a baby
Driven to Tears ... how emotional ... can't find any Words. Thank you Rachel !!
I cried also..............My respect to the orchestra and especially to Ms. Rahcel Flowers to be strong enough to go through this wonderful performance despite her heartbreak of a loss. Thank you for your perseverance Rachel. And my love to the people who celebrate with you, for the lives of a wonderful talented group. EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER! Their music lives on!!