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Tag Archives: Music
Sir Neville Marriner
Conductor Sir Neville Marriner has died. I first heard his work, as I suspect did many, in the context of the film Amadeus, but over the years since, I have heard a great deal more of his wonderful music-making. Marriner … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Is there a more Me thing to do, blogging-wise, than announce a new series, post the first post in that new series, and then promptly forget about that series a week later? Oops! I completely forgot about Tone Poem Tuesday … Continue reading
Symphony Saturday
After three consecutive weeks of increasingly lengthy and heavy German symphonies, let’s step back and listen to something shorter and much less dense. What’s needed right now is a French composer, so this week we’ll encounter Vincent d’Indy. I have … Continue reading
Mr. Bowie
This one-off video, made at Live-Aid, was the first time I ever heard David Bowie. I will never not love this.
Symphony Saturday (the Return!)
I’ve been meaning to dust off this once-regular feature of mine, in which I take time each Saturday to explore the world of that grandest of classical music forms, the symphony — and what better time than right now? During … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday: Farewell, James Horner
Composer James Horner died the other day when the airplane he was piloting crashed. He was the sole passenger. This is, quite simply, the worst news to hit the film music world since Michael Kamen, Jerry Goldsmith, and Elmer Bernstein … Continue reading
Something for Monday
OK, I promise that this blog isn’t going to be all-Nimoy-all-the-time, but after I got done collating the material for the Sentential Links post, I saw this on Facebook. As I’ve noted, I’ve been obsessing somewhat over the Glen Campbell … Continue reading
A snowy field in Clear Lake
Today is the anniversary of The Day the Music Died, as it’s come to be known: the day that a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all three musicians. Sheila … Continue reading
Magic Friday!
Maybe we should stop calling it “Black Friday”. I mean, if we take the day after Thanksgiving as the de facto start of the Christmas season, and if we consider the Christmas season to be the year’s most magical period … Continue reading
Secret Weddings
SamuraiFrog writes about two cues from the Braveheart score: It’s sort of a touchstone for me now. Becca and I had been dating for about six months when this movie came out, and it was really this movie that made … Continue reading