Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

It’s my birthday today, so I’m gonna listen to some Star Wars. (Not like I wouldn’t listen to some Star Wars on days that are not my birthday, but anyway….) May the Force be with you, friends!

I’m not a big fan of the movie, but I like Maurice Jarre’s music for it, so here is “Keating’s Triumph” from Dead Poets Society.

I suddenly felt in the mood for some Mozart, so here’s some Mozart: his Symphone #41 in C Major, sometimes called the “Jupiter” Symphony. If Mozart had only written one twentieth of the music he wrote, and this symphony was … Continue reading →

I’ve come to like this band a great deal. Here are Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, in a lovely song about unrequited love: “Someday”.

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of those composers who seems to exist in his own world, related to but not quite part of everything that was going on around him at the time. I often find in him a dreamy, … Continue reading →

Sometimes one needs a little sheer perfection. In that spirit, here is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major. This work is, in my view, one of the supreme achievements in all … Continue reading →

“There But For You Go I”.

I suddenly thought of this piece the other day, after quite literally not having thought of it in nearly twenty years. I listened to it a lot in college, and then it dropped off my radar completely, for some reason. … Continue reading →

I’m on a bit of a Leonard Bernstein kick of late, so here’s Lenny conducting his own Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Pay attention at about the 12:30 mark. The ensuing section is pure magic.