Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I don’t remember if I’ve featured this before, but it’s just such a perfect piece of music that it’s worth revisiting now and again. Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia depicts the meeting of two trade caravans, on … Continue reading →

Sorry, folks, yesterday was a bit preoccupying, what with a nice visit from my old friends, the Car Repair Gods*. Here’s something fun. Pro tip: Looking for light, fun classical music to brighten your day? Listen to the overtures of … Continue reading →

My day started annoying and spiraled from there, so no music until now. Sorry. But here’s some cheesy movie music from what may be the cheesiest sci-fi movie of all time.

In the “Wow, that is a Weird Cover!” department, we have…and I have video proof below that I am not making this up…the depressing song “Leader of the Pack” (in which the bad boy from the wrong side of town … Continue reading →

I heard this delightfully, pompously British piece on the radio yesterday and promptly fell in love with it. Here’s the London Suite by Eric Coates, in a live performance. (Oddly, the applause at the end of the piece sounds tepid, … Continue reading →

When you’re writing a swashbuckler of a novel with young lads first learning to use a blade and pistol as your hero and dastardly men on black horses with eye-patches and a big red feather in their black hats as … Continue reading →

A small suite of film music today, from Ridley Scott’s underrated film Kingdom of Heaven. (The film is underrated because this is one of those films where the “Director’s Cut” is actually a vastly different, and distinctly superior, product to … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you all, but in my neck of the woods, it’s gloomy and rainy and I’m not finding motivation or oomph easy to come by, so here’s a bit of pick-me-up music: the Light Cavalry Overture, by … Continue reading →

When in need of musical balm, and when in doubt of where to seek it…turn to Russia. At least, that’s how it’s always been with me. There’s just something about the Russian musical character that grabs me whenever I hear … Continue reading →

Erin go Bragh!