For today’s selection we are going with John Coltrane‘s version of Dick Gasparre, George Fragos and Jack Baker’s “I Hear a Rhapsody” from his album Lush Life. To be honest I’m not sure if it actually counts as a Rhapsody.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just heard that Dave Brubeck died yesterday, he was 91. He will be missed. So in memory enjoy his great Take Five.
Today’s Rhapsody comes to us from Siouxie and the Banshees from, their album Peepshow. Enjoy!
Let’s start this by saying outright that I’m very much a fan of Guillermo del Toro‘s work. Even his mediocre films or the throw away projects that he participated in for the fun of it are well worth watching. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Rhapsody let’s get down with Rick James and his Urban Rhapsody.
Well it’s Christmas so I need to go with something appropriate for the day and season and the one that I could find at short notice was a Christmas Rhapsody by Henry Mancini from Santa Claus the Movie. Santa Claus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because of the holiday I thought I’d forgo the usual rhapsody and go with something I figured would be appropriate to celebrate the arrival of the new year. So without further ado here is the fourth movement of the Ninth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s Rhapsody is the Concert Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra in D flat major 1/2 by Aram Khachaturian. http://youtu.be/axgGOyvwe2g
I was biking downtown last evening and got the chance to see one of my favorite kinds of sunsets. Picture this, it is an overcast day, rainy, the darker the better but you look west across the water you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is Pancho Vladigerov‘s Vardar Rhapsody, also known as the Bulgarian Rhapsody. Originally written for violin and piano, it was later orchestrated and arranged for various instruments. A fiery patriotic work, it has become, in the words of an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
