Gettin’ hot out there, folks. Here’s Mungo Jerry.
Tone Poem Tuesday
Charles Martin Loeffler is one of those late-Romantic American composers of whom relatively little is heard nowadays, mainly because their music tends to be too derivative of European traditions, although this is likely unfair in Loeffler’s case. His European bona fides are well established, however, by virtue of the fact that he was born near Berlin and moved around Europe a good deal before emigrating to the United States in 1881, when he was twenty. His music apparently abounds in unusual instrument pairings and interesting sounds, especially late in his career when he became interested in jazz. (I’m getting all this from Wikipedia, by the way. I’m being honest when I say that I know nothing about the man.)
Loeffler’s A Pagan Poem is a dramatic work indeed, based on a work of Virgil. Apparently he did not mean the work to literally tell the story but convey some of its emotion. I can’t speak to his level of success there, but this is a powerful and emotional work.
Here is A Pagan Poem.
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In Which I Am Interviewed
I was interviewed at The Geekiverse, on all manner of writerly and authorly things! Go check it out! (The Geekiverse is a nifty site, based in Buffalo, devoted to all manner of, well, geeky stuff.)
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Interviewed! (And a couple of other things)
Hey everyone! I did an interview!
The Geekiverse is a cool website, based in Buffalo, that focuses on all manner of geeky stuff, from games to movies to music to books. They’re a neat bunch and I’m excited to be featured on their site. Go check it out!
(Meantime, I hope those of you who are waiting for the e-book of Amongst the Stars will continue to be patient. I’m running into some formatting problems that are giving me fits, specifically with regard to the book’s structure and how it works into a usable Table of Contents. I’ll get it figured out, I promise! More to come on that hopefully later this week.)
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Water Dog
Symphony Saturday
Bad Joke Friday
Something for Thursday
EDIT: So I’m sitting up last night and I suddenly realize it’s Thursday and I hadn’t posted anything. What I had forgotten is that I had previously written and scheduled a Thursday thing last week, which is something I do infrequently enough that I completely forgot that I had done it.
I promise I am not losing my mind.
(But if I am, I can declare my bid for the United States Senate!)
Yipes! It’s Thursday! Folks, I’ve spent a big chunk of this week all screwed up as to what day it is. That happens sometimes, huh? I hope it does…anyway, here’s a great song from one of my favorite acts, Blackmore’s Night. Fronted by Ritchie Blackmore (of Deep Purple fame) and singer Candice Night, Blackmore’s Night is a quite wonderful folk-rock group that plays the kind of music you’d want to hear on a warm summer night after a day of hanging around your local Renaissance Festival. This song is “Under a Violet Moon”.