Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I haven’t made much reference to my fiery passion for the music of Hector Berlioz in quite some time, so I’m going to rectify that. YouTube turns out to be an interesting source for older recordings of classical music — … Continue reading →

Not much need for a lot of introductory stuff here, I suppose; just one of the most gorgeous unions of piano and cello in existence. Here’s Rachmaninov’s famous Vocalise.

This has been stuck in my head for three days now. And now it’s gonna be stuck in yours. Ha! Here are the Rivingtons, with “Papa Oom Mow Mow”. Enjoy your earworm, folks!

I’m not a big fan of country music, but there are a smattering of country songs that I like a great deal. Here’s one of them: “Every Which Way But Loose”, by Eddie Rabbitt. (And yes, I like the movie … Continue reading →

Yeah, I’m running quite late, but it’s still Thursday. So without a whole lot of folderol, here’s Louis Jourdan ruminating on Gigi:

One of the better-known bits of 1980s pop-culture trivia is that Tom Selleck was originally slated to have played Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but was unable to get free of his contract to CBS and Magnum, … Continue reading →

Here’s a bit of wonderfully beautiful film music writing, from the movie Medicine Man, by Jerry Goldsmith. This is one of those movies to which Goldsmith gave a pretty good score despite the fact that the movie is complete crap. … Continue reading →

One of my favorite albums from the 1980s is Genesis’s Invisible Touch. I think a lot of people probably think of this album, if they think of it at all, as basic 80s pop, but I was strongly attracted to … Continue reading →

Film composer Maurice Jarre died earlier this week, so it is fitting that I devote this week’s Something for Thursday to him. I didn’t like the movie, but the score is beautiful. Here, from Dead Poets Society, is “Keating’s Triumph”. … Continue reading →

I tend to select more introspective, meditating, or downright sad pieces of music for this weekly feature, so here’s something upbeat. Longtime readers know that one of my favorite film composers working today is Joe Hisaishi, a guy whose work … Continue reading →