Category Archives: Music

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 →

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 →

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 →

Posting Thursday evening: Saturday evening we are going to a performance by the LA Philharmonic of Philip Glass’ 1984 music for ‘the CIVIL warS’. It’s one of my favorite Glass pieces — along with Symphony #5, the early operas Satyagraha … Continue reading →

Have now heard it often enough on KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic program that it’s embedded itself in my mind.

Heard this a lot late last year, on KCRW, and thought about it as the “hee hee” song, for the background accents.

I thought I had posted about this song before, perhaps on Facebook, but cannot find the link. So let me add it here with a ‘music’ tag for future reference. Which is to say, my past year’s favorite song: Frank … Continue reading →