Category Archives: Music

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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Mahler 6

Posted on Thursday 19 June 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

When I was 18 or 19, still living at home while commuting to college at UCLA, I had a tiny clock radio in my bedroom, which was my only source of music aside from the Tijuana Brass LPs playing in … Continue reading →

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Favorite Songs – Natalie Merchant

Posted on Saturday 17 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Listening the new, self-titled, album by Natalie Merchant, but haven’t listened to it quite enough to pick out a favorite song. So here are two from her 1995 first solo album Tigerlily. First, San Andreas Fault: San Andreas Fault Moved … Continue reading →

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Blessed Are

Posted on Monday 5 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

This is an old Joan Baez song, from her 1971 album of the same title — an original song by her, after she had passed through her folk music phase and begun composing her own songs. Has some nice lyrics, … Continue reading →

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Tonight’s favorite song: John Grant, Where Dreams Go to Die

Posted on Sunday 4 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Wikipedia has this post about the album. There’s a lyric here — “I know you know I know you know that I know that you know…” * — that illustrates the idea that human minds are able to speculate on … Continue reading →

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There Is Only One Where This One Was

Posted on Sunday 20 April 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Saturday night’s concert: LA Philharmonic, Disney Hall, Philip Glass’s “CIVIL warS”, as discussed in an earlier post. Fabulous concert, with noticeable and intriguing differences in dynamic balance and tempo in the performance compared to the two recordings I have, and … Continue reading →

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