Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

You know the drill: a lot going on, so here’s something by Franz von Suppe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYsDEwVvkE  

Because the movie has been on my brain since we saw it on Sunday, here is a suite of Max Steiner’s amazing music from Casablanca. The score’s greatness is all the more amazing when you consider yet another bits of this … Continue reading →

Stupid busy days at work! I mean, they do make the days go by faster. But they also make me almost forget to post! Today would have been the 73rd birthday of Karen Carpenter. I first heard this song not … Continue reading →

Oof. Today was a day. An ice storm led to a 13-hour blackout at home, and work was an adventure, too. I don’t have a whole lot of extra mental bandwidth for musical commentary…so here’s a song that doesn’t need … Continue reading →

In the 1940s and 50s, there were quite a few Black singing quartets recording music. Many early Black solo artists got their start in groups like this (Sam Cooke being a prime example), but I’ve just learned something very interesting … Continue reading →

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and siblings, playing “Redemption Song”. More info to come, but I really wanted to get this up here! I found this a delight.

I don’t remember who tweeted about this song the other day, but they basically said something along the lines of, “Sometimes you need a Swedish metal song about the soldiers who protected the Pope during the sack of Rome in … Continue reading →

Expect a lot of Rachmaninoff on this site this year, as it’s the great composer’s 150th birth year. Today doesn’t quite see Rachmaninoff directly…but a piece by a teacher of his. Sergei Taneyev succeeded Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the Moscow … Continue reading →