Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I have a sneaking suspicion that I may have posted this before, but I’m not wading through two or three years’ worth of Something for Thursdays* to find out. I’ve always loved the music of Richard Wagner. Always, always, always. … Continue reading →

A movie scene this week, from Steven Spielberg’s astonishing Schindler’s List. If you haven’t seen the film, Liam Neeson plays Oskar Schindler, a businessman and member of the Nazi party who decides to take advantage of the increasingly punitive measures … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas and/or a glorious Holiday Season to all who read this! See you back here on Sunday.

(Yeah, I screwed up the date when I scheduled this post, which is why it was here, then it wasn’t, and now it’s back. Oops.) A lot of my friends from work are either hunters or married to hunters. I’m … Continue reading →

The other day, I said of Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante: I can think of few pieces of music more sunny in nature, more optimistically life-affirming, than the ever-wonderful K364. Well, you be the judge. What I love most about this piece … Continue reading →

I’ll be using this again in a post sometime, but for now, here’s a nice piece of music for our upcoming Halloween. Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was intended by the composer to tell a story, detailing an artist’s captivation by … Continue reading →

From Fantasia 2000, here’s one of my favorite segments: an excerpt from Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto, used to score the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”.

Here’s the snippet of Vangelis’s long-form work, Heaven and Hell, which served as the main theme to Carl Sagan’s teevee series Cosmos.

Amongst my many musical discoveries during my college years was the German electronica band Tangerine Dream, which has been around in one form or another — always fronted by synthesizer genius Edgar Froese — for over 40 years. That’s quite … Continue reading →