casual_friday { theramins weren't just for 1950's sci-fi

Clara Rockmore - 'Le Cygne (The Swan) from Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)' by Camille Saint-Saëns

music { elaboration

About a decade and a half ago, a fantastic (not to mention Hugo award winning) episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Inner Light aired. It featured a touching story and a lovely folkish melody [OGG Vorbis] played on a pennywhistle.

This week I learned that a full orchestral suite [MP3 or OGG Vorbis] based on this melody was written and recorded for Trek's 30th anniversary. The composer is longtime Trek composer Jay Chattaway

BTW, the prop whistle that Picard 'played' in this and one other episode was eventually auctioned at Christies for $48000

music { now for something a little lighter

Been liking the Feist album 'The Remainder' a lot.



I dig the lyrics.

I feel it all I feel it all
I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide the wings are wide
Wild card inside wild card inside

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I know more than I knew before
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I love you more
I love you more
I don't know what I knew before
But now I know I'm wanna win the war

No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less
Put your weight against the door
Kick drum on the basement floor
Stranded in a fog of words
Loved him like a winter bird
On my head the water pours
Gulf stream through the open door
Fly away
Fly away to what you want to make

I feel it all, I feel it all
I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide, the wings are wide
Wild card inside, wild card inside

Oh
I'll be the one who'll break my heart x3
I'll end it though you started it

The truth lies
The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide

casual_friday { virtuosity defined

Wells Cunningham - Caprice No. 24 [Niccolò Paganini]

casual_friday { Bow Down Before Me Peons!

(because I'm in a badass sort of mood)

John Williams - The Imperial March

music { Week of Music - Friday October 19, 2007

Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'



Mischa Maisky - 'Le Carnaval des Animaux XIII: Le Cygne' (Camille Saint-Saëns)

music { I am so smart! S-M-R-T!

Classical music does not make you SMRT!

http://www.omninerd.com/2007/04/18/news/1230

Contrary to the common quip that listening to Mozart will actually increase one's IQ, a systematic review of literature on the subject performed by the German research ministry concluded there to be no affect on intelligence by passively listening to Mozart