Category Archives: Music

Scientific fidelity vs narrative; anti-gay bigotry and socialism; the ecology of faith; Valerie Tarico on religion; Hans Zimmer and conceptual breakthrough

Posted on Tuesday 18 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s one of several articles in the past week or so about why we should not nitpick the science in Interstellar: Slate: Back Off, Scientists: Don’t be so nitpicky about the technical details of sci-fi movies like Interstellar I have … Continue reading →

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Hans Zimmer and Interstellar, again

Posted on Thursday 13 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Very happy to see this post on Slate by J. Bryan Lowder: Music of the Spheres: In Interstellar, Hans Zimmer scores the universe. This is to follow up my earlier post, Interstellar…Music, which concerned complaints that the music overwhelmed to … Continue reading →

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And the moon rose over an open field

Posted on Tuesday 11 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s one of Paul Simon’s best songs, “America”, from Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 album Bookends; a song that is recently getting play on a certain TV commercial… Has Simon sold out? Well, the TV commercial is about patronizing local, small-town … Continue reading →

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Interstellar… Music

Posted on Tuesday 11 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Gary Westfahl’s reviews save me lots of time and money. Whenever I think a new SF film might be interesting enough to see…. his review often persuades me otherwise. (And when I do see them, my reaction is much the … Continue reading →

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Sibelius 1 and Mahler 6

Posted on Monday 10 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

I did a post a couple weeks back about how I tend to like the later albums by pop/rock singers and groups over their earlier ones. Springsteen, REM, Darren Hayes. This applies generally to classical composers as well, though the … Continue reading →

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The Most Beautiful Unknown Music

Posted on Tuesday 21 October 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Listening again tonight to The Most Beautiful Music in the World, by Zbigniew Preisner, as I blogged about three years ago. Yes yes, there are passages by Mahler and Debussy and Tchaikovsky that are as beautiful as any music ever … Continue reading →

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Savage Garden / Darren Hayes

Posted on Thursday 16 October 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Guilty Pleasure: the Australian group Savage Garden and its lead singer Darren Hayes, who’s gone on to a solo career. Here is one of Savage Garden’s best songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtQ7n_wG_pE. Cool breeze and autumn leaves Slow motion daylight A lone pair … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night: sfadb; Mahler 5

Posted on Tuesday 15 July 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s only because I’m on a roll, with updates to sfadb.com, and because Yeong is out of town, visiting his elder son in Chicago, that I am sitting at home on a late Tuesday evening compiling and posting this past … Continue reading →

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In the Quiet of the Railway Station

Posted on Tuesday 15 July 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

I do declare, there were times I was so lonesome I took some comfort there… In the clearing stands a boxer…

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We’ll ride on the rain… we’ll worship the wind

Posted on Sunday 6 July 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

We watched Pedro Almodovar’s Law of Desire the other night, a 1987 film possibly set earlier, since there is a scene in which a famous 1960s pop song, “If You Go Away”, is sung [in Spanish] to a stage performance. … Continue reading →

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