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Something for Thursday
I’ve been featuring Donna Summer the last few weeks, and then the other day The Wife and I were driving around doing errands and we were listening to 70s On 7 on SiriusXM, where a string of selections made me … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
It’s late in the day and it was a long and busy one today and my brain’s mush, so I’m sticking with Donna Summer. Here’s “Hot Stuff”! A bonus: Summer’s song was perfectly used in The Full Monty:
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Something for Thursday (I’m sick and just not in a great mood edition)
Last week I featured Donna Summer. This week, I’m going to do so again. This one’s pretty trippy: It’s a suite of three songs, joined together to make one big nearly eighteen-minute suite. The main attraction is “Macarthur Park”, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Something For Thursday
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Something for Thursday (Black History Month)
The other day, someone posed an interesting question over on the Threads platform: Dear white people, It’s Black History Month. Who made you see us? Who was your first Black celebrity crush? It didn’t take me long to figure out … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
John Williams, who turns 94 on Sunday (and I’ll have more to say about him, believe me), is an example of a curious phenomenon: he has been so prolific, and so many of his amazing themes have become part of … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Two days ago marked the 270th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was one of those miraculous artists whose talent eclipsed the perceived limits of human ability. Mozart produced work of effortless profundity, in perfect proportion, in … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here’s a movement from a Bach partita for solo violin. But what is a partita? It is simply a suite for solo instrument or voices, usually in several movements. Hey, why should everything have a complex definition? This particular movement, … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
What’s it like when the music and the visuals of a film meld together perfectly? Well, here’s one such example, which is simply the greatest opening credits sequence history ever. Yes, I said it.
Something for Thursday
It’s always amazing to me what random stuff people will suddenly be talking about on social media. The last few days I’ve seen chatter as millennials and GenZers discover “Schoolhouse Rock”, those wonderful animated shorts with memorable songs that taught … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I know I said the other day that I’ve always had difficulty with the music of Claude Debussy, but that doesn’t apply to everything he wrote. There’s a piano miniature of his that I have always loved, called “The Girl … Continue reading