Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

So there was a composer who wrote an opera, and this composer was so lackadaisical that he didn’t finish the overture until literally hours before the first performance. This is what happens when you put off important jobs to the … Continue reading →

Sometimes you need Big Russian Romanticism to get you through the cold times….

Whoa, I’m awfully late with this one…anyway, here’s a bit of science fiction film music. As great as Jerry Goldsmith was at his best, I had trouble with the last decade or so of his career, because a lot of … Continue reading →

Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello almost defy commentary for me. They simply…exist. A lot of Bach has that feel for me — it’s almost as if Bach didn’t so much create his music as present it, as found, from some … Continue reading →

Seems a bit of light-hearted music is called for this morning, so here are a few selections of such.

Time for something epic! Some chap uploaded the music from the epic movie The Vikings, so here it is. This is great stuff, exactly the kind of music you want for a popcorn-on-a-Saturday-afternoon flick like this:

The first Something for Thursday of 2015! Let’s start the year off with a bit of optimistic music, shall we? Here’s the overture to The Marriage of Figaro, by that Mozart fellow.

Today is Hector Berlioz’s birthday! Oh Hector, the greatest of all French composers! Here, in his honor, is his Le Corsaire overture.

It’s not going to be all-Christmas all the time this month! You know, it’s funny about country music. It’s not my favorite genre, and I probably actively dislike well over fifty percent of it. But the stuff I hear that … Continue reading →

I see that director Mike Nichols has died, which is obviously a deep shame. I don’t think I disliked a single movie of his that I’ve seen, although I haven’t seen them all. (Well, Regarding Henry wasn’t all that great, … Continue reading →