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Tag Archives: Music
The Road goes on and on
Huzzah! The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Complete Recordings will be released on November 6 of this year. It will include four CDs (the releases for the previous two films had three each) and a … Continue reading
Luciano
Alex Ross today: The finest singers not only hit the notes but erase the difference between notes and words. Singing is most thrilling when it becomes a kind of heightened talking. That’s what happens in Pavarotti’s “Che gelida manina” or … Continue reading
Great Scott!
One of Jerry Goldsmith’s greatest film scores, The Wind and the Lion, is getting a lavish re-issue from Intrada Records. Am I ordering one? You’d better believe it!
Good thing the Devil didn’t go to Carnegie Hall….
For some reason, the local country station — which I hear occasionally at work — plays “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” daily, which drives me nuts because I consider it to be one of the worst songs in the … Continue reading
Toonz
Apparently I was tagged the other day by Paul on a quiz-meme thing where I’m supposed to write about between 5 and 10 “songs” (which I loosely interpret as, well, any musical work at all) that have had a large … Continue reading
Hector Rules!
Earlier this week Lynn e-mailed me a notice about a comment left on this post over at Serenade in Green, about who the Greatest Composer of All Time might be. The comment (by this blogger) is lengthy and refers to … Continue reading
Slava
Tim Page on Mstislav Rostropovich, who died the other day: Mstislav Rostropovich died this morning in the city he had always considered his home — in Moscow, where he had been flown from Paris by private jet in February after … Continue reading
Backing…away…slowly….
Every so often, in tooling around the Interweb I encounter something that makes my brain nearly shut off in its attempt to wrap itself around the idea that someone may be arguing a certain position. I just had one such … Continue reading