Well since it is our traditional day to celebrate love, I thought I’d forgo the usual Tuesday rhapsody and go with something a little bit more appropriate. Tchaikovsky’s Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet.
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First I know that Swan Lake is not Halloween music in any way shape or form. But it is so hauntingly effective as the opening for Dracula that I definitely had to include it. It’s funny how one’s memory plays[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So here is on that I have been looking forward to doing, Duke Ellington‘s version of the Nutcracker Suite. I just love the way he has Tchaikovsky’s original melody drifts around the piece at first almost a subliminal accent behind Ellington’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…