Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I’ve never been the biggest fan of Wynton Marsalis, but my favorite album of his is definitely the recording he did with the Eastman Wind Ensemble of solo pieces for cornet, light virtuoso pieces which date back to the era … Continue reading →

It’s Earth Day. Here’s Vangelis’s “Heaven and Hell”, the part used for the main titles of Carl Sagan’s great series Cosmos: Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, … Continue reading →

I discovered the music of Percy Grainger in college. Grainger was a pretty odd fellow, and his music could be very odd as well. He was keenly interested in folk song, and composed treatments of folk songs that tried to … Continue reading →

Blame Jennifer for this, as she spent all day on Facebook yesterday posting bits of lyrics from The Music Man. Here’s the enchanting duet, featuring the Buffalo Bills (the barbershop quartet, not the football team) singing “Lida Rose” and Shirley … Continue reading →

It’s April Fool’s Day, so here’s one of the more good-humored pieces of music I know: Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, conducted by Bernstein himself. I don’t really have any April Fool’s stuff going on, but by all means, make … Continue reading →

Wow, I remembered! Hooray! Here’s one of my favorite songs in any genre, performed by Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss: the wondrous Shaker tune “Simple Gifts”.

OK, I didn’t forget this week. I’ve just had an abnormally busy couple of days, and I didn’t even have time to pre-select this week’s selection and schedule it for publication. Anyway, here’s a little proof that classical music doesn’t … Continue reading →

Oh, crap. Yes, it finally happened. It’s not that I didn’t get around to posting this until now, or that time got away from me. It’s that I literally forgot today was Thursday. Ugh! So anyway, here’s something I’ll be … Continue reading →

Sorry to be so late on this week’s entry! I have no idea as to the genesis of this and I’ve never heard of the band before, but everybody in Facebook is linking or embedding this, and it’s not hard … Continue reading →

Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi is one of my favorite composers working today. He is best known as the composer of the music for all of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, and he is as central to there emotional fabric as John Williams … Continue reading →