Rhapsodies

Happy Birthday to Thelonious Monk.

by wpmorse on October 10, 2011 at 6:34 am

Posted In: Test

And here he is playing Blue Monk in Oslo, April 1966

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY

└ Tags: Jazz, Thelonious Monk

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Friday Museum Sketches

by wpmorse on October 7, 2011 at 10:26 am

Posted In: Art

Today’s sketch is some odds and ends from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s Greek collection. From right to left the first image is a Grave marker (Radeke Stele) from between the 6th and 4th century BC. The winged figure is from a oil flask made in Attica around 480 BC, and Finally the Lion on the bottom is from a funerary sculpture, also from Attica, made between 390 and 380 BC.

└ Tags: Art, Greek Art, Pottery, sculpture, Sketches

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on October 4, 2011 at 6:28 am

Posted In: Test

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. )

└ Tags: Franz Liszt, Music, Rhapsody, Victor Borge

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on September 27, 2011 at 6:48 pm

Posted In: Test

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 in the process I found out about Lucia Micarelli. I don’t think I need to say more.

Here’s her version.

http://youtu.be/tKL0TAliz50

└ Tags: Lucia Micarelli, Music, Queen, Rhapsody, Treme

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