A very happy 91st birthday to Charlie Parker a talent silenced far too soon.
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Today’s Rhapsody is August’s Rhapsody from the 2007 movie August Rush by Mark Mancina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plrDXfhcoa4
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Today we return to one of my favorites, Maksim Mrvica performing Rachmaninov‘s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (18th Variation)
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Well with the DVD release this weekend I finally got around to seeing X-Men: First Class. I don’t know why I didn’t bother with it in the theater. Probably a combination of having been burned by X-Men 3 and Wolverine:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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For this week’s selection we are doing the first of George Enescu‘s Romanian Rhapsodies performed by the Cernauti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Liviu Buiuc.
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I’m becoming more and more a fan of Bill Bailey so I just had to share this:
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This week’s Rhapsody is Claude Debussy‘s Premiere Rhapsody for piano and clarinet with Adam Eljasinski on the clarinet.
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A very happy 85th birthday to John Coltrane! And what better way to celebrate than with one of his signature pieces, “Favorite Things” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6xkVRWzCY
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I have a confession to make… this is the third time I’ve went with a variation of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsodies for this segment but I can explain. I just started watching Treme. It’s just as good as The Wire and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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After last hearing the Harpo Marx version we revisit Franz Liszt‘s Second Rhapsody done mostly straight by the hilarious Victor Borge. (I’ll give this piece some respect and find a proper concert version of it one of these days. )
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