Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

EDIT: So I’m sitting up last night and I suddenly realize it’s Thursday and I hadn’t posted anything. What I had forgotten is that I had previously written and scheduled a Thursday thing last week, which is something I do … Continue reading →

This speaks for itself.

I was watching a clip from the movie Gigi the other day, and this video was suggested as a follow-up. It’s from a teevee show that aired in 1961. Hard to believe that this was almost sixty years ago.

I’m seeing this movie tonight on the big screen…so here are a couple of selections from that oh-so-wonderful camp classic, Flash Gordon!!!

It seems odd to me that one of the greatest Hollywood film composers, Jerry Goldsmith, had to wait until thirteen years after he died to get a star on the Walk of Fame, but there it is. Here is some … Continue reading →

I don’t recall if I’ve posted this before, but it’s an interesting piece nonetheless: the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra by Alexandra Pakhmutova. The repertoire for solo trumpet is pretty rich prior to, say, 1750, and then aside from the … Continue reading →

One of my favorite piano concertos: Mozart, No. 22 in E-flat, K 482. It’s very nearly perfect, so ’nuff said!

I know it’s late in the day, so here’s something for the setting of evening and night: one of Chopin’s most famous Nocturnes. Way back when I was taking piano lessons, I remember that I started working on this piece, … Continue reading →