Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
The Hungarian coloratura soprano Erika Miklósa is here in a concert performance of the “Queen of the Night” aria from The Magic Flute – a concert performance it may be,…
I LOLed hugely at this. Especially the “show-off”, the “overpassionate” and “too many facial expressions”
Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…
For a previous post featuring these monks, see here.
Whoever the official titleholder is, Spotify’s most prolific artist must surely be the dauntingly productive Various Artists, who emerges with a slew of new compilations and soundtracks and such every…
Wittgenstein’s closing proposition of the Tractatus in musical form:
Via the Unfinished Pyramid blog, I came across this touching story about the country singer Toby Keith and #AprilCountry outlaw fave Merle Haggard: “It was Super Bowl weekend. Merle had…
Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…
