Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

You know what? You look like you could use a half hour of Mozart. So here. (And if you don’t think you could use a half hour of Mozart? Shut up and listen to a half hour of Mozart.)

Today is National Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s not enough to remember that it happened. We must remember why.

I really love the movie Catch Me If You Can. One reason is John Williams’s wonderful score, with its mix of caper-jazz and its wistful tone depicting Frank Abagnale’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) unspoken wish for some kind of normal life. Williams … Continue reading →

A very young Judy Garland–even before she would travel over that rainbow–sings to a photograph of Clark Gable.

It’s been a busy week…but not so busy that we can’t take some time for Itzhak Perlman playing Bizet by way of Pablo de Sarasate.

In honor of Roger’s birthday, in which he turned 65, here is Camille Saint-Saens’s Septet for piano, trumpet, and strings. Why this piece? Because it’s Saint-Saens’s Opus 65! Happy birthday, Roger! (It was actually yesterday, but I couldn’t do Something … Continue reading →

Play enough marches in band in high school and college and they get into your blood. I heard this one on the radio yesterday, and while I’ve known it for years via recordings, I never played it that I can … Continue reading →

So if you remember the pop music of the 1980s, you remember a band called a-ha, which had one giant hit in the US called “Take On Me”. They followed that up with a couple of less-successful singles (including the … Continue reading →

Composer Johann Johannsson died the other day. I am not terribly familiar with his music, but I have liked what I’ve heard. He seems to do a lot of atmospheric work that relies on repetition of motifs and long, slow … Continue reading →