It’s been a long day at the Department of Minor Nuisances. (Whether this is literal or figurative is anyone’s guess. Time is… inconsistent in the Celestial realms.) Mr. Zhu and Ms. Wren have plans for later on in the evening, starting with a couple of drinks with their coworkers at the local hang-out.
First, however, they have to make sure everyone has left the building.
A very happy 98th Birthday to Mr. John Coltrane!
Let’s celebrate by listening to My Favorite Things.
Please join me in wishing Mr. Charlie Parker a very happy 114th birthday!
Let’s celebrate by listening to “Cool Blues”.
A very happy 123rd birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong!
You know, it’s embarrassing that for all the years I’ve been doing this I’ve never gotten around to doing Hello Dolly!
Let’s correct that with Louis and his All-Stars playing it live in 1965.
For this week’s rhapsody, we have a relatively new one, the Edel Rhapsody by Stephen Caudel.
I don’t think I’d even heard of the Wagner tuba before listening to this one. It sounds almost like a brass bassoon!
It’s been a while since I did Tuesday Rhapsodies. I freely admit that it was because I was scraping the barrel and was having trouble finding new ones. Just by sheer luck, I found that since my last search, Wikipedia had started a new list along with the main article. In the process, I found two new ones!
The first was Taras Bulba by Czech composer Leoš Janá?ek. If I ever heard of it before, I probably got it mixed up with one of the villains in Darkwing Duck.
Anyway, here it is performed by the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
