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Category Archives: On Music
Tone Poem Tuesday
I suppose it’s something of a cliche: the composer who aspires to serious work and yet finds their greatest success in crafting music for the popular world. Such was the fate of Robert Russell Bennett, whose name will be well … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Mitzi Gaynor edition)
Actress and singer Mitzi Gaynor has died. She was 93, and she was one of the very last remaining stars with ties to the great era of the Hollywood movie musical. Her biggest role was likely South Pacific, the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein classic … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Dame Judith Weir is a British composer with whose work I am entirely unfamiliar except for the present work, which I just heard for the first time the other day. But my lack of knowledge of Weir’s music shouldn’t be … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Born on this date in 1813: Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest of all composers and a titan of the operatic stage. Many composers lived short lives in ill health and little acclaim, but not so Verdi: he lived to … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer whose life forms one of the better What ifs of music history. He was one of those composers who, being born in the late 19th century (1884, to be specific), learned and came of … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
First of all, Happy October! October is the best month, and on this topic I will hear no debate. Now, onto some music. This one I came upon by happenstance: I’m on vacation today and tomorrow (I’ve been on vacation … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Completing my small survey of music from the films of James Cameron, we have a short suite from the score to Avatar, written by James Horner. I like this score a lot, for its suggestion of an alien world that is … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Well, an apology of sorts is needed here: I had a new-to-me piece cued up and ready to go, but I wanted to give it a few more listens before I actually posted it, and then I lost track of … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Continuing our little series here of music from the films of James Cameron, who earlier this year turned 70, we have the big one. Titanic. Wow, this movie is nearing 30 years old. I remember when it was dominating popular … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I’m having a busy week at work, so here’s a piece that might come in emotionally handy by Friday: it’s basically a collection of drinking songs! Here is one of my absolute favorites, the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Georges … Continue reading