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Something for Thursday
I’ve long had something of a love-hate relationship with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. The show came out sometime in the late 1980s, and ten years would pass before I’d see it on stage myself. But for a … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Alex North’s score to the film Spartacus is considered one of the greatest of all film scores, and in film music fan circles, a nearly mythical quality has accrued around it, owing partly to the score’s lack of a great … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
This song dates from the 1970s, and it has loopy lyrics to match, but the instrumental playing makes it one of the most infectious songs I’ve ever heard. We played a shortened version once at music camp — mainly shortened … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here’s something cool: Franz von Suppe’s overture Poet and Peasant, played by the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a film made in 1955. My understanding is that films like these used to be part of the pre-feature entertainment in movie theaters. … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Something a bit different for this week — an entire episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. This is one of my favorite episodes. It’s not one of the “famous” episodes, like “The Trouble with Tribbles” or “The Menagerie” or … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
OK, a bit different, inspired a bit by my Wednesday Dichotomy post from yesterday. I’ve always loved the movie A Fish Called Wanda, the raunchy and hilarious diamond heist caper flick that starred John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
UPDATE: What happens when you try throwing together a post about anything you can possibly think of late at night on a day when you’ve been up since five in the morning? Errors, that’s what. So, below wherever you read … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Whoa! It’s Thursday. Oops. As a tonic for the latest crime against music perpetrated on American Idol by the inexplicably beloved crappy singer Lee DeWyze, here’s Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” the way the thing is supposed to sound: Lee turned it … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
For his PBS show Cosmos, Carl Sagan did a brilliant bit on evolution, with some then-amazing computer animation: Here’s the same animation, without voiceover and with a different piece of music that was also used in the series, called “Alpha” … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here’s a favorite song of mine, sung by Tony Bennett: “Stranger in Paradise”. The song is from the musical Kismet, but the melody actually goes back farther than that, being actually taken from the Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin. How … Continue reading