Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

(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 →

Sheila O’Malley posted this a while back, and I just remembered it. It’s a live performance recorded on a camcorder, so the sound isn’t the best, but the energy and the beauty still comes through. It’s an a capella group … Continue reading →

OK, I’ve missed this feature the last two weeks. Sorry about that. We’ll get back into things with a bit of classic film music. Here is Ernest Gold’s theme to Exodus.

Incommunicado for much of the day. Hectic week! I can’t believe how much we’ve had to spend on school supplies. I also can’t believe the kinds of hyper-specific things that schools ask for now. Math class requires a notebook, and … Continue reading →