Today’s post is inspired by the fact that the singer, Barbra Streisand, had her 78th birthday yesterday – Happy Birthday!
George McConnell
May It Be
My offering for Friday is a moment of calm – perhaps I should do more of these 🤔 – we can always do with slowing everything down for a while.
Danilo’s Story
As I have said before, there are many treats around on the www during this lockdown as musicians, orchestras, opera companies, theatres and much more all find themselves unable to perform as they would normally do. One of those is the Metropolitan Opera of New York who are offering a stream of an opera from their recordings each evening. Tonight it is Franz Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow).
Thickening Up Facebook
Its a common complaint and a justified one in my opinion that Facebook has too much “junk” and not enough content. I have been challenged over recent days over what I could do about that and this is my first attempt at formulating those thoughts.
Creature Comforts
As Monty Python would have said “…and now for something completely different”! When we were on holiday a couple of years ago in the USA I managed to see the Blue Man Group show at the Luxor Hotel. I had heard of them many years previously, seen videos – but this was my first live viewing.
Something On My Mind
One of the album covers I shared was The King’s Singers “Out of the Blue”. This was one of the first recordings of this group that I bought and it was definitely an oft-played LP for a few years.
A Prelude To The Week
So far there has been, I guess, a lot of “heavy” music in what I have shared, so this week I am making a conscious effort to lighten up a bit.
A Blast From The Past
Continuing the theme from yesterday, today’s choice is again music steeped in the liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church – however, it is very different to the Rachmaninoff that I previously shared as it attempts to depict “the transition from the solemnity and mystery of the evening of Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious celebrations of Easter Sunday morning”.
Orthodox Easter
I will come clean up front in this post and say that I am sure that there will be plenty who do not appreciate this music – but then again, I suspect that is true not only of these links I am posting, but of every piece of music ever written 😃
Horn Sound
It is no surprise that these posts may well be dominated by Horns and music by composers who wrote good horn parts. Today’s choice is from an album that would undoubtedly have been in my 20 if I wasn’t restricting that to LPs.