This week we take a quick, very quick, look at the band Blink-182 with “Brohemian Rhapsody”. This has to be the shortest Rhapsody I’ve done yet in the series. I would argue that this stretches the definition as 30 seconds hardly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As an excuse to watch Screwball comedies again I decided to focus on the team up between two individuals not usually associated with comedy, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. I’m embarrassed to admit one of the reasons I’d never gotten[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was trying to find modern versions of Greek Mythology and somewhere in the middle of that rather general search I settled on the myth of Orpheus. The story of the master musician who looses the his true love only to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this seek’s Rhapsody we have Rhapsody, courtesy of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.
Well, I enjoyed having the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on in the background for the past two weeks and in the process thought that this would make a great theme for this week. This led to picking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy 96th birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker! Let’s celebrate with his arrangement of Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm!”
This week’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody from the Angels of Creation collection by Sebastian Thomson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h23J5YC98FMTime Travel is alway one of the more fun sub genres of Scence fiction. (As a SciFi purist and a bit of a pedant, I’ll insist it’s actually part of fantasy but mostly out of tradition Science Fiction is stuck with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week we dip back into our Franz Liszt rations with his Hungarian Rhapsody Number 12, performed by Valentina Listsa
I’m afraid I kind of botched this one. The title of my planned them was “Don Quixote will kill us all” The idea being film attempts at Don Quixote being complete disasters for the creators. Unfortunately that particular bit of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
