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James
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They’ll certainly be covered in shitake….
She was just plain Patti LuPhone then…
#moviesky #filmsky I very much enjoyed this recent offering from #Dreamworks . Witty, charming and poignant, its eco message is whispered in your ear, and it deftly undermines its own sentimentality with some great wisecracks. The animation references both old #Disney and #studioGhibli . I think….
open.spotify.com/track/0Znlvx... #Gluck ‘s pared down drama (just the two lovers and the spirit of Love herself) moves swiftly through the story in around 90 mins. In that time Orfeo manages to lose her AGAIN and mood about it. Come on man! Mind you the music’s glorious. #opera #classicalmusic
Orfeo ed Euridice: Overtura
Christoph Willibald Gluck, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester · Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice · Song · 2001
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open.spotify.com/track/2ZeiRB... #HowardHanson ‘s lush, heart-on-sleeve romantic style isn’t for everyone, but here he dials it down a bit in favour of a tautly constructed set of variations. It’s a 12 minute gem, always interesting, never outstaying its welcome. #classicalmusic
Mosaics
Howard Hanson, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz · Hanson: Symphony No. 2 - Lux aeterna - Mosaics · Song · 2011
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open.spotify.com/track/5oxFuJ... #CharlesIves clearly familiar with Faure in this 1897 song but it still feels like a fractured version of something. He’s breaking some rules but not reassembling them into anything else - that’s a few years down the line #classicalmusic
Qu'il m'irait bien
Charles Ives, Leah Wool, J.J. Penna · Ives, C.: Songs, Vol. 5 · Song · 2008
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open.spotify.com/track/6vtFRm... I knew nothing about #GloriaCoates and had never heard a note of her music until now. This #stringquartet blew me away - both ethereally beautiful and unsettling. This last movement is so strikingly original I have no reference point for it. Profound. #classicalmusic
String Quartet No. 5: In The Fifth Dimension
Gloria Coates, Kreutzer Quartet · Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 And 6 · Song · 2002
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open.spotify.com/track/3FlRAQ... #classicalmusic The thing about early #CharlesIves is that you think you’re in the world of the Victorian parlour song but then he does something a bit off. He knows it breaks the academic rules but he doesn’t really care.
The Love Song of Har Dyal
Charles Ives, Jennifer Casey Cabot, Douglas Dickson · Ives, C.: Songs, Vol. 3 · Song · 2008
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Bar lines. 17th century. Just sayin’…
Good Lord! 😬 #filmsky #moviesky
Margaret Gibson plays a rootin' tootin' six-gun shootin' wild west heiress sent to finishing school in ROWDY ANN (1919).

She fails Classical Dance but excels at Ropin' the Criminal Polecat Tryin' to Seduce Her Roommate
It speaks for itself….
#filmsky #moviesky #KindHeartsAndCoronets Never get tired of this - Ealing’s deliciously dark comedy of the English class system. #AlecGuinness got the praise but for my money #DennisPrice steals the show as the murderous interloper bent on revenge. Total classic.
#filmsky #moviesky Blown away all over again by this pivotal western. A commentary on toxic American politics (surely not…), courage, moral choice, agency. An inspiration for #SergioLeone et al. Where the hell is #GaryCooper when you need him? A silvery, b&w masterpiece. #HighNoon
open.spotify.com/track/2OJHed... #classicalmusic I just love this! #CharlesIves revelling in the sheer strangeness of 2 pianos tuned a quarter of a tone apart. The editor of the score warns against tuning one piano UP as per Ives’s instructions, but to tune the other one down! Tension apparently…
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos: I. Largo
Charles Ives, Donald Berman, Stephen Drury · The Unknown Ives, vol. 2 · Song · 2004
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