I’m not a Philip Glass fan but this is cool.

Beautiful and very interesting.

One of the things I love most about the Internet is searching for one thing and finding something else that I had never heard of before, though I have definitely heard today’s find.

When I saw this list, 27 Of The Most Mind-Bogglingly Stupid Song Lyrics Of All Time, I was prepared to make fun of it and people who don’t get stuff like metaphors and analogy because that’s what “stupid song lyrics” lists usually turn out to be. But most of these really do sound mind-bogglingly stupid. [...]

…about Bach: Bach’s music is, to me, architectural. It is mathematical. Now, to some that might make it sound like the music is clinical and sterile in emotion, but nothing could be further from the truth. Bach’s music often suggests, more than any other composer’s, something cosmic, and his work springs from the deep connections [...]

I really wish Hollywood would get over the whole Psychotic Criminal Weirdos Listening to Classical Music thing. I’m looking at you this time, Fox.

This is not my usual sort of thing but I like it. (Found here)

Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor on piano? That’s so wrong. But it so works. In music, sometimes wrong can be very good. Oh, and then there’s this. Not bad actually. *J.S. Bach was born on today’s date in 1685.

The classical radio station here (not the one we have now but the different one we had in the 90′s) used to play this a lot. At first I didn’t care for it, as I generally prefer more gentle piano pieces, but I got used to hearing it and slowly warmed up to it and [...]

About the composer

The lyrics you heard as a child will always be the right lyrics. Everything else will always sound wrong. My mother had a two record set of Christmas music by the Longines Symphonette. (I don’t know what happened to it.) One of the songs on it was Oh Holy Night. One line of the lyrics [...]

Oops. You were expecting to see something new here today, weren’t you? I’ve been busy shopping. Unfortunately I haven’t found anything I want to buy and time is running out. So, for now, why not listen to some nice music and talk among yourselves. I’ll be around.

He lived long and wrote music that most people don’t understand. Today I will listen to all of my Elliot Carter CDs. All two of them. I don’t have this one yet.

Intuitive Sewing Machine – It’s pretty but I’m quite attached to my 100+/- year old machine. And I don’t know how “intuitive” it would be for me since I’m used to either a treadle or a foot pedal. I never had any of the beginner problems the woman in the video talked about. Scrap Quilt [...]

I bought this album last week. I’ve been trying to think of what I want to say about it but I’ve finally decided that, except to say that I love it, I’ll just let Bach speak for himself. That’s always best, isn’t it?

One of my favorite modern composers. Yeah, I know. I’m just full of little surprises. Give it at least three and half minutes before you start talking about cats being killed and washing machines falling down flights of stairs.

I embedded this once several autumns ago. It’s time to go there again.

Last night I watched this week’s episode of Copper (BBC) and there was a fancy party, with the inevitable string quartet. This was a bit more realistic than most fancy party scenes. Usually you hear the same few bars of music over and over again for what is supposed to be an entire evening of [...]

Clara Schumann was born on today’s date in 1819.

This video was really my first choice but embedding has been disabled.

My mother had a stack of 45 rpm records that were several years older than me. Of course, when I was a kid that was really old old, antique, ancient, not like we, as adults think of songs from the previous decade. I was fascinated with these records. I liked the idea of listening to [...]

Since I mentioned Andras Schiff and Beethoven yesterday…

This was never one of my favorite Beatles tunes but this slow, blues version makes more sense to me. (As always, “your mileage may vary”.)