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Bad Joke Friday
A classical music joke: Was Mozart’s posse called… …his Wolfgang?
Something for Thursday
Wow, Jerry Goldsmith really did score a lot of bad movies, including The Haunting. Nevertheless, his music is always worth a listen. Here’s the final scary music selection of the month!
Tone Poem Tuesday
Antonin Dvorak wrote this work, The Noon Witch, after his return to Europe from the United States. It is a musical telling of a horrible story: A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
The American composers of the Romantic era are an interesting bunch, because they exist in a kind of musical purgatory. Their music is not heard much, mainly because it’s all pretty firmly ensconced in the European symphonic tradition, and thus … Continue reading
Bad Joke Friday
From a newspaper in 1859. I’m so glad that bad humor is timeless!
Something for Thursday
Continuing with scary music! Or music for scary movies. Or…you get the idea. Here is a suite from Wojcech Kilar’s wonderful score to the rather uneven film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While the film is uneven, the score is a classic … Continue reading
When things collapse….
This past weekend was…an adventure. The groundwork started the previous weekend, when a large puddle formed at the corner of our street and the street that leads to it. It had rained a bit that weekend, so I didn’t think … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another hallmark of scary classical music: A Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky.
Sub-optimal function
As a rule, the underground pipe that supplies water to your domicile should not be doing this: Ayup. Showering is postponed indefinitely. Luckily for you all, who are reading this on a screen.
Bad Joke Friday
It’s not a bad joke, actually. Seen on Twitter: Is that… is that the Fanta of the Opera? pic.twitter.com/uqEGVFNsRj — Yacov Freedman (@yzfreedman) October 11, 2017