Play That Funky Classical Music White Boy
Raiding the vast (and out of copyright) canon of classical music has been a recurrent theme in popular music, from Frank Sinatra to The Farm to Eric Carmen (though Carmen’s…
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Let’s Get Sophisticated! #SophistiPop Old and New …. with Bryan Ferry, ABC, Michael Franks, Destroyer, Red Box, Aztec Camera, Marshall Crenshaw and the Style Council
“Sophisti-Pop” is a subgenre of pop that takes musical elements from jazz, MOR, synthpop and what could be best called easy listening, and mixes them with a more literary-than-visceral, slightly…
102 Years Ago today: A young composer cut down by World War I, George Butterworth, “Fantasia for Orchestra”
Amidst the massive toll of lives lost in the First World War were many many writers, artists and composers. The War Poets, Franz Marc, Apollonaire … and so many unknown…
Review of “Guys and Dolls” from StompTokyo.com 1999/2000-ish
While the website Stomp Tokyo still exists, this particular review is on it no more…and I am not sure how well it fitted with Stomp Tokyo’s overall aesthetic of “B-movies, Godzilla…
Piano minimalism from 1880 – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, Reinbert de Leeuw
Liszt’s piano setting of his late work Via Crucis (originally for choir, soloists and organ) has many passages that sound extraordinarily like Satie or other much later exponents of minimalism. Wikipedia…
The lost world of Enno Aare
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Amity Cadet) https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/aoifenichorcorain/playlist/74KqlNzk7NMTChonWbOC75 Continuing from my profiles of the work of Amity Cadet and…
Music for a Heatwave: Bax, Honegger, Delius
“Summer Music”, Arnold Bax . Pastoral a l’ète, Arthur Honegger https://open.spotify.com/track/0hDA9MbcHvBpY9ukNTPoed?si=8iGa mQkLRyCu2NeFK_izIQ Frederick Delius, ‘A Song of Summer”
The end of the list
Every so often, I would come across a random track on Spotify that I wanted to bookmark, so to speak. I tended to add these to the end of a…
Séamus Sweeney 