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Category Archives: On Music
Something for Thursday
The other day may or may not have been William Shakespeare’s birthday. Seems as good a reason as ever to listen to some Shakespeare-inspired music!
Tone Poem Tuesday
NPR has a podcast called the Open Ears Project: Part mix tape, part sonic love-letter, the Open Ears Project is a daily podcast where people share the classical track that means the most to them. Each episode offers a soulful … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
We recently watched The Holiday, a rom-com written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and we liked it a great deal, despite our inability to quite buy into the idea that both Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz are lovelorn women with zero luck in … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Composer Eric Whitacre, whom I have featured several times in this space before, is an always fascinating voice to return to. I had, in fact, forgotten about him until the week before the eclipse, when I looked up classical music … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday (and light posting ahead)
We are currently entertaining a visit from my brother-in-law, so posting will likely be light here until the weekend. That being the case, it’s time for Franz von Suppe! Here is the Poet and Peasant Overture.
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Something for Thursday
In honor of Monday’s eclipse….
Tone Poem Tuesday
A work today by composer Nina Shekhar. The work is called Lumina, and rather than me introducing it, I’ll let the composer herself do it: And here is Lumina. This is a fascinating listen! I found this piece suggested in … Continue reading
Sergei Rachmaninoff, 151
Born this date: Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of my very favorite musical voices in history. Last year was his 150th, and it seemed to me that we did not hear nearly enough about him back then. I wrote quite a lot … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
So, there’s a local radio station that every day at noon does what they call a “Beatle Block”. That’s four songs by the Beatles. Only…not really. The other day they played this, which is not a Beatles song. It’s a Wings … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
When in doubt, go with Berlioz. You can’t go wrong with Berlioz. Here is the Roman Carnival overture, for which Berlioz re-tooled a number of melodies from his first opera, Benvenuto Cellini, which–like many of Berlioz’s works during his lifetime, sadly–failed in its … Continue reading