Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

You know what? I like this song and don’t care who knows it!

Here’s something I don’t think I’ve done yet in the course of doing these posts: I’m using a piece of music of whose existence I was completely unaware just twenty minutes ago. But I heard this on the drive in … Continue reading →

I’ve been posting a lot of classical music lately and will likely keep doing so, but why not change the pace once in a while? Here is one of the most beautiful country songs ever written, performed by the ever-amazing … Continue reading →

I played this piece via a band arrangement in college…and I hated it. At first. I thought it was cheesy, goofy, insipid, and idiotic. But the thing grew on me, and kept right on growing, until it became one of … Continue reading →

Over on Instagram I’m doing a ’30 Day Disney Challenge’, basically because a friend of mine who is an absolute nut for all things Disney is doing it and I just can’t leave an Internet meme-thing undone. It’ll task me … Continue reading →

Well, folks, are you feeling the love? If not, here are some selections to help. Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody!

The opera overtures of Franz von Suppe have been a staple of ‘light classical music’ concerts for over a century, and I see no reason for that to stop any time soon. Von Suppe’s overtures are wonderfully melodic, packed with … Continue reading →

Oops…a tad late to the party, but hey, it’s still Thursday! So here’s some swashbuckling movie music. I’ve waxed poetic about Erich Wolfgang Korngold in this space before, and specifically about my favorite Errol Flynn movie of all time (and … Continue reading →

Sticking with a recent flare-up of a longtime obsession of mine, the music of the Russian Romantic and post-Romantic composers, here is the Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This piece is in five short movements, and constitutes something of a … Continue reading →