At The Mid Hour of Night is an old Irish love ballad written in the 1800s by Thomas Moore who was himself a poet, a sweet-voiced singer and accomplished musician. He is now best remembered for the lyrics of “The…
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Loveless (Russia) 2017 – Andrey Zvyagintsev (Friday’s Finest)
Loveless (Nelyubov) is a 2017 Russian film nominated for best Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Oscars. It lost to the Chilean transgender drama A Fantastic Woman. Although I liked the latter, I thought Loveless was deserving of more ‘love’.It…
Ask the Mountains (1995) – Vangelis
Ask the Mountains is a single by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis from the 1995 record Voices. According to Last FM.com – Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (born 29 March 1943 in Volos,Greece), known professionally as Vangelis, is a Greek composer of…
Bobby Fischer – My 60 Memorable Games (First Printing 1969)
During one of my chess phases I bought the above book off ebay. It cost me a small fortune since it was a first printing. I have collected other written material about Fischer including the original Life magazine about his…
Tagged with: Bobby Fischer, My 60 Most Memorable Games, The World Against Bobby Fischer
Posted in Reading, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Posted in Reading, Reflections, Sport and Adventure
Archie, Marry Me (2014) – Alvvays
This 2014 single is some sweet indiepop. Archie, Marry Me is from Canadian group Alvvays. It was their second song on their marvelous self-titled debut album. It’s a great sweetener too to the type of music you can expect on the…
15/10 – 21/10/19 Springsteen, Madness of the Crowds and Poltergeist
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Seeing ‘Western Stars’ Article by Richard Williams at Thebluemoment: “This is my 19th album,” Bruce Springsteen says towards the beginning of the film Western…
Aragonaise (1875) – Carmen Suite No 1 – Georges Bizet
The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen and compiled posthumously by his friend Ernest Guiraud. They adhere very closely to Bizet’s orchestration. Today in the music library project…
Ordet (1955) – Carl Theodor Dreyer (Friday’s Finest)
Ordet meaning ‘The Word‘ is a 1955 Danish drama film based on a play by Kaj Munk, (a Danish Lutheran priest), first performed in 1932. The film won the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival. This film…
Piano Concerto 2 in C Minor Op 18 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
I am excited to present to you the first piece from Sergei Rachmaninoff to appear in the music library project. Piano Concerto 2 in C Minor Op 18 premiered on November 9, 1901 and is one of his most enduring…
The Yellow Book – The Picture of Dorian Gray (Final)
Today on Wednesday’s book excerpt we revisit for the final occasion Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. In our last encounter with Wilde’s only novel we explored Lord Henry’s enlightening views on humanity and science. The following dialogue between…
