Okay for the next piece in our ongoing Tuesday Rhapsodies segment, Brahms’ Rhapsodies, Op. 79. I really should get into Brahms more. I mean I know just how experimental he was, how much of a personality he was… he had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For me there’s not many things as bad as turning on the computer and discovering that yesterday’s strip is still up. After frantically trying to put the new strip in with no luck and beginning to become convinced that there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s Rhapsody we demonstrate that the Rhapsody is not limited to classical music, and what better place to start then with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh Freddy, we hardly knew ye.
Okay this week it’s back to basics with Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Rhapsody # 10
For this week’s rhapsody we have Franz Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody. Yes, yes, I know, we did Liszt last week but this time we have something special, Harpo Marx! I frequently have extremely mixed feelings about the musical numbers in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A quick happy birthday to one of the greatest Jazz vocalists ever. Couldn’t decide on what was the best song to show her off with but I decided to go with one of her signature pieces, “Strange Fruit”. It’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just had this skit pointed out to me, enjoy.
Today something a little different. The mad scene from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor. Okay, technically not a rhapsody, but it’s rhapsodic in form, so it counts.
Today’s Rhapsody is Ton?i Hulji?‘s performed by Maksim Mrvica. I’m embarrassed to say I only heard of this one, as well as the performer until after I started researching more obscure rhapsodies but I really like it.
A very happy One Hundred and Twelfth birthday to the great Duke Ellington. To commemorate the anniversary, allow me to share one of my favorites, New World a Comin’. Regrettably I wasn’t able to find a copy of the orchestral[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
