Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

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 →

A change of pace this week. Here’s one of my favorite scenes from The West Wing. The set-up is that a death row prisoner is about to be executed, and somehow (I don’t recall the particulars) it comes to pass … Continue reading →

We’re on the eve of the Winter Olympics, one of my favorite things in the world (the Salt Lake City Games were in progress when I launched this blog, way back when), so here’s a bit of Olympic history: Brian … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the 51st anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, so this seems apropos. Here’s Don McLean. Here are the annotated lyrics.