Category Archives: Music

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 →

(Aside from all the tracks on the new Beck album)

Every once in a while I pull off a CD for evening’s listening by Georges Delerue, a French composer of film scores who died in 1992. He seemed to be best known for light playful scores for French films, such … Continue reading →

Last night’s performance of Billy Budd by the Los Angeles Opera was… compelling. I know some Benjamin Britten music (especially “Four Sea Interludes”), but had never heard this opera — nor have I ever read the Melville novella, though I … Continue reading →