Weekend 441.0 (Annual Advent Abbey Retreat)
(1) An excerpt from Daily Meditations on the Psalms: “We sing when we are happy. A lover sings when he has found his beloved. Sports fans shout for all to Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Music
Weekend 440.0
(1) One final, musically inspired quote, from Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami: “‘It’s an usual opera [Der Rosenkavalier]. The plot’s critical, of course, like with all operas, but with this Continue Reading →
Weekend 439.0 (Andantino con moto)
(1) Dvořák Carnival, Op. 92 (YouTube) Heard this last night at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The performance on YouTube is from Royal Albert Hall in 2012. (1a) Limestone Photo Continue Reading →
Weekend 437.0
“The music was somehow addictive, as he had warned. An uninterrupted stream of emotion, Musical instruments in colorful profusion. It was Strauss who boasted, ‘I can describe anything in music, Continue Reading →
Portland
The one on the west coast. I was there for a long weekend and in traditional limestone fashion wanted to draft a top ten… (1) The Hollywood Theater at PDX. Continue Reading →
Weekend 434.0
Cool flea market find this weekend for $3.00. I found the soundtrack for Explorers on vinyl. It’s notable for Disney Geeks because the music was done by Jerry Goldsmith who Continue Reading →
Searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades
(1) Tunnel of Love by Bruce Springsteen (YouTube) (1a) Tunnel of Love by Dire Straights(YouTube) “And now I’m searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades…Searching everywhere from steeplechase to Continue Reading →
Weekend 424.0
(1) 2018 World Cup Fixture List (via Playmobil) (2) Your musical inspiration this weekend is Spaceship Earth by Bruce Broughton
Weekend 423.0 (Architecture is frozen music)
(1) Another quote from Ware: Conversations: “There’s a quote from Goethe that ‘architecture is frozen music,’ and I think it actually applies to comics more than anything because you’re taking Continue Reading →
Weekend 417.0
“A thousand skeptic hands won’t keep us from the things we plan. Unless we’re clinging to the things we prize.” (1) Arcade fame turns to infamy as Billy Mitchell’s record-setting Continue Reading →