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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Something for Thursday
I’m seeing this movie tonight on the big screen…so here are a couple of selections from that oh-so-wonderful camp classic, Flash Gordon!!!
Twenty Years
When we took our vows, twenty years ago today, she didn’t like coffee and I didn’t want a dog. Go figure. Happy anniversary, my love!
Tone Poem Tuesday
Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy exists somewhere in the space between tone poem and concerto, with its prominent and technical part for solo violin. It’s not a concerto, however; its structure more casts it as a fantasy on a number of … Continue reading
In other news….
Two developments: :: Amongst the Stars: The Song of Forgotten Stars Book III will be available on May 25! As is my usual practice, the book will be in paperback first with e-books to follow a couple of weeks later. … Continue reading
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Symphony Saturday
I seem to recall once owning a set of Franz Berwald’s symphonies. They made no impression on me whatsoever in the occasions I tried listening to them, and I’m not even sure if I still own the CDs. I’m not … Continue reading
AMONGST THE STARS, chapter two
Did you read Chapter One? If not, you’d better! (Come to that, did you read STARDANCER and THE WISDOMFOLD PATH? Because if not, well, come on, folks!) Chapter Two below the fold!
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Something for Thursday
It seems odd to me that one of the greatest Hollywood film composers, Jerry Goldsmith, had to wait until thirteen years after he died to get a star on the Walk of Fame, but there it is. Here is some … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here is an oddity of sorts. I can’t really say much about it, because I have found almost no information whatsoever about it online. It is a symphonic poem called Visions, by Jules Massenet. Massenet was a French Romantic who … Continue reading
And now, a sunset
Just because. (And I guess it’s not technically a sunset, but rather a dusk sky.)