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Category Archives: music
Something for Thursday
ALL RIGHT! LET ME HEAR YA! A-ONE! A-TWO! A-THREE! TAKE ME OUT…. Yup, today’s Opening Day for another baseball season! Hope springs eternal…with differing degrees of “hope”, obviously. For fans of, say, the Astros, Dodgers, Mets, and Braves, “hope” is … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Last week I mentioned the “Big Five” of Russian classical music in the Romantic era: the five composers who dominated musical culture in Russia in the latter half of the 19th century, with their influence and their desire to shape … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Last night we watched an episode of The Repair Shop (wondering what that is? You wouldn’t if you subscribed to my newsletter!), and someone brought in a music box for repair. The box’s tune was a popular song for a movie … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
As Rachmaninoff was a young man studying music in a rigorous environment (we’ll get to that in April), he–and just about every other young Russian musician of the day–was influenced heavily by a group of composers called collectively “The Five”. … Continue reading
Music from the Emerald Isle
Three selections: one Romantic, one Modern, one Contemporary, all Irish:
Something for Thursday
You know the drill: a lot going on, so here’s something by Franz von Suppe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYsDEwVvkE
Tone Poem Tuesday
(via) As I gear up for All Rachmaninoff All The Time in April, I’ve been listening to a lot of Russian music that pre-dates Rachmaninoff, particularly by composers who rank amongst his prime influences. Tchaikovsky was certainly one of those; … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Because the movie has been on my brain since we saw it on Sunday, here is a suite of Max Steiner’s amazing music from Casablanca. The score’s greatness is all the more amazing when you consider yet another bits of this … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
An offering for Roger! Here is “Adagio and Allegro for Piano and Horn”, by Robert Schumann. What’s the relevance to Roger? Look at the opus number. Happy birthday to one of the finer folks I’ve met online! (BTW, I actually … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Stupid busy days at work! I mean, they do make the days go by faster. But they also make me almost forget to post! Today would have been the 73rd birthday of Karen Carpenter. I first heard this song not … Continue reading