Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

It is Thursday, isn’t it? Once the Holidays start, I always find it takes until the first full week in January that doesn’t have a holiday in it before I start to know what day it is again with any … Continue reading →

How about leavening the crystalline beauty of all the Christmas music in the air with an ominous operatic overture? Here’s the overture from the first great opera of the Romantic era, Der Freischutz, composed by Carl Maria von Weber.

So this is weird. I didn’t forget yesterday. I drew a blank. Remember, I’m getting each week’s selection via a music challenge that is the kind of thing you find on Twitter occasionally. So far so good for the first … Continue reading →

It’s the third installment of our music challenge! This one is apropos, given that today is the coldest day in Buffalo Niagara since February. Our high today is to top out at 21 degrees, and when we roused ourselves from … Continue reading →

It’s Week Two of the challenge-thing I launched last week! This time we need a song with a number in the title, so here’s one!

Gene Kelly singing Lerner and Loewe. I’m not certain it gets much better than this. It’s from Brigadoon, sung by American hunter Tommy as he walks through the heather with the beautiful Fiona, early in the story when he and … Continue reading →

Another song that was used in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, this tune by Cat Stevens explores the hopeful frustration inherent in the father-son relationship. On the one hand, the fear that we’re not steering them correctly; on the … Continue reading →