Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

A longer selection today: the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao. This piece of program music was written in 1959, but don’t let the date of composition fool you: this is pure lyric Romanticism, using several Chinese … Continue reading →

I’ve used this song before, but I like it, and it’s been a few years, so here’s John Denver and “Looking for Space”.

Here’s Adele, singing the title song for Skyfall. What do you think? I like it a little more each time I hear it, and I liked it a lot at first. It stands in the fine tradition of sultry Bond … Continue reading →

For obvious reasons pertaining to my reading of Stephen King’s 11-22-63, I’ve had the John Williams score from Oliver Stone’s JFK on my mind. Here are two selections: the Prelude and “Arlington”.

From the John Willaims score to Superman, here is “Leaving Home”. The eerie music at the beginning comes just after Pa Kent’s funeral, when young Clark Kent finds the remnants of his ship from Krypton hidden in the barn cellar; … Continue reading →

I feel like some Eurythmics today…so here they are! I love me some Annie Lennox, and I especially love how they always embraced the idea of music videos as a place to indulge their impulse for sheer WTF weirdness. Here’s … Continue reading →

Apparently ‘reboot fever’, in which old properties are exhumed dusted off dragged from the archives for the purpose of maintaining rights ownership revisited for a new generation, has struck the folks at Disney, who are developing a new Rocketeer project. … Continue reading →

One of my favorite little things in The Music Man is the way Prof. Harold Hill is able to continually distract the School Board from investigating his background by tricking them into singing. Here’s one such example, which combines with … Continue reading →