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November 2015

November 25, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving, Y’All!

Here are the mellifluous guys from Cantus weighing in with my general sentiments for the season. Enjoy your...

November 24, 2015

Now THIS Is What Coldness Sounds Like!

An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the thing it's describing, right? But what do...

November 17, 2015

Celebrating Javier Navarrete’s Patchwork Score for “The Warrior’s Way”

Fun Susanka Fact o' the Day: I have (and have always had) an inordinate soft...

November 16, 2015

SSF: “The Monk and the Fish”

Today's short crossed my path this past weekend courtesy of a Facebook friend to whom I...

November 04, 2015

Ned Devine’s Parting Glass

Take a drink and remember the man. And raise your spirits to the sky. Raise...

November 03, 2015

No Commentary Necessary — Sir David Attenborough Narrates Adele’s “Hello”

As a huge fan of Sir David's VO and documentary work, this is pretty much...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

The Surprising Link Between Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things” and Ridley Scott’s “The Martian”

Here's a fun account of (some of) the thoughts that went into the music behind Scott's highly-successful The...

October 22, 2015

More (Inexplicably) Obscure French Baroque Music

This was playing during the last 15 minutes of my Journey Back From Gallup yesterday....

October 13, 2015

A Handful Of Mighty Musical Hunters

That's Alaric Rokko Jans' score for David Mamet's astonishingly (and unfairly) obscure period film, The...

October 06, 2015

Parked By the Jukebox with The Pennywhistlers and “Run Come See”

What am I listening to today, you ask? "Run, Come See Jerusalem," an old Bahamian...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Looking For A Mid-Week Pick-Me-Up? Here’s Bobby McFerrin Singing Bach.

Robert Keith McFerrin, Jr. + The opening movement of Bach's Concerto for Violin, String Orchestra...

September 22, 2015

A Superabundant Splash of Scarlatti Sonatas. Domenico Scarlatti, That Is.

Inspired by last year's ("evergreen," luckily) "A Surge Of Scarlatti Sonatas" piece from NPR Music's "Deceptive Cadence" blog,...

September 15, 2015

Leroy Anderson The (Underappreciatedly) Great

View image | gettyimages.com So, I'm not entirely sure "underappreciatedly" is an actual word, but...

September 09, 2015

Pay As Much Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain As Possible

The man, in this particular case, is Emmy Award-winning Bear McCreary. And he's the musical mastermind behind...

September 01, 2015

Because Blacksmiths Are Musicians, Too. Sort Of.

I have been obliged to publish some of the following Lessons, because surrepticious and incorrect...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Today’s Shocking Internet Discovery

OK, so "shocking" might not be the word everyone would use for something like this, but just...

August 18, 2015

Yes, You’re Right. John Williams Is A Magician, Basically.

Filtering out the noise to clearly see what the story needs is a lesson every...

August 12, 2015

Dancing Along To Grainger Playing Grainger

Another example of one of my favorite pet categories: Artist(s) Performing Their Own Work(s). Only in this...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Djembe Therapy. It’s Good For What Ails You. I Promise.

I've been saving this one for a while, but I decided to bust it out...

July 21, 2015

Heinrich von Herzogenberg Is My Latest Musical Discovery

Let's be precise. We're not talking about just any von Herzogenberg; we're talking about "Heinrich...

July 04, 2015

What The 4th Of July Always Sounds Like (To Me)

Earlier this week, I mentioned John Philip Sousa's unmatched compositional contributions to the sounds of...

July 02, 2015

Gearing Up For The 4th With America’s March King

There are few names as inextricably linked with the Fourth of July as that of John...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Music For When It’s All Just A Bit Too Much

For me, "escape" usually means movies. But sometimes, I just need a quick fix. And...

June 23, 2015

My Most Powerful Memory of Mr. James Horner

And then, as the words faded from the screen, I heard this — eulogistic, yes,...

June 11, 2015

“Jurassic’s” Michael Giacchino Comes Musically Home

View image | gettyimages.com I stumbled across this great NPR piece last night. It details the...

June 10, 2015

When Don Quixote Meets Crazy Italian Violinists, We All Win

For some reason, I really wanted to listen to Georg Philipp Telemann's Don Quixote Suite...

June 09, 2015

Ennio Morricone Wrote a Mass for Pope Francis

View image | gettyimages.com On a day when I've spent almost all morning with the...

June 03, 2015

Weathering Some Typical Wyoming Weather, Thanks to The Master Singers

"If you don't like the weather we're having right now," we Wyomingites say, "wait five minutes....

June 02, 2015

“Share this freely with others to promote the love of Bach.”

I love this entire idea, brought to my attention by the folks at OpenCulture and...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Morten Lauridsen’s “Sure On This Shining Night” Needs No Season

View image | gettyimages.com I stumbled across this piece a few months ago as I...

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