Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

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 →

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 →