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Category Archives: music
Tone Poem Tuesday
John Adams’s first orchestral work, written in 1979, came well before the operatic work that made him well-known in the 1980s. It’s an interesting listen: solemn and meditative, and yet shot through with an odd kind of mystical optimism. On … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I haven’t seen the movie yet, and likely won’t until it hits a streaming service, but I’ve heard the music, and I can say that in that department at least, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Distiny fires on all cylinders. … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday: The Annotated “Stars and Stripes Forever” (a repost)
This is a repost of something I wrote some years ago. Back in my BlogSpot days this post was a regular driver of search-engine traffic to my blog; I’m not sure if that’s the case now or not, but it … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Having the Titanic on the mind for obvious reasons, here’s some music from a movie about the wreck…but not the famous movie. This is the rather less famous movie from 1980 or 1981 called Raise the Titanic. I watched this movie years ago … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Aaron Copland.
Something for Thursday
I don’t have a lot to say about this, other than to note that this is one of my favorite psychedelic pop songs of the 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFY1-eEhdU
Tone Poem Tuesday
A longer post breaking this unplanned hiatus is coming, but meantime…here’s Franz von Suppe! This is not an overture, though: It’s a march called Fatinitza.
Something for Thursday
A two-fer, because I couldn’t decide which of these to post. That’s when I remembered, “Hey, it’s MY blog, I can post two things if I want!” So, here are two things: The first track on the brand new album … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
A piano concerto, today, and a very modern one at that: composed in 2018 and premiered a year later, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is the third piano concerto by composer John Adams. Adams is best known for … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Canadian (Toronto!) singer-songwriter Shannon Dooks released a new song recently, and last week she released the song’s official video, which is also partly a short film. I’ve been following Dooks online for several years now, and it’s nice to see … Continue reading