Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

Happy New Year, folks, and welcome to 2014! It’s weird how, the farther I get into the future, the more looking back at the past I end up doing…but that’s a thought for another day. Here’s a piece I had … Continue reading →

If you’re a fan of Person of Interest and also a fan of James Bond, you’ll know why this is my selection this week.

Time for one of the big “warhorse” works for wind ensembles/concert bands! Here is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s English Folk Song Suite. It’s in three short movements, and it’s one of the most purely delightful pieces of music I know. Enjoy!

Erk. Got really wrapped up in NaNo writing this week. Sorry, folks…but here’s a brief thing anyway, the “Hunter’s Chorus” from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischutz.

Here is Howard Shore’s main theme to my favorite horror film, The Silence of the Lambs. Happy Halloween!

The bad news is that the BBC’s third season of Sherlock won’t air until January. Ugh! Meantime, here’s a bit of Sherlockian music! Miklos Rozsa wrote a wonderful score for a film called The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Here … Continue reading →

Whoops. Sorry, folks. Here’s some very famous Rachmaninov, the Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra on a Theme of Paganini. (The work’s most famous section, the 18th Variation, comes at the 15:28 mark, for those curious.) The Paganini tune that forms … Continue reading →

A repeat today, because this is one of those pieces to which I return every now and again. This is one of the most beautiful choral works I know, a simple and stunning setting of the folk song “Shenandoah”.

It’s fall now, although here in Buffalo we’re enduring a couple more days of unseasonably warm weather: upper 70s when we really should be in the upper 60s. Oh well: it’s fall, darn it, and I’m gonna wear overalls anyway. … Continue reading →