In my first draft, I had the idea of Laurel gradually getting plastered as the night went on.
I then realized that that wouldn’t work since she’s technically working. Even if “the job” is self imposed consisting of keeping an eye on Brian, she still has to stay sharp.
She probably doesn’t even have the luxury of having several afterwards since she’ll have to spend an hour writing down her impressions.
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.
Here’s wishing a very happy 98th birthday to Mr. Miles Davis!
Let’s celebrate by listening to Nefertiti!
