Songs in Our Heart # 44 Heroes (David Bowie) (Written by David Bowie and Brian Eno, released September 1977) [An almost unique pop song – no bridge, instruments set to howl, yet awfully full of feeling.]
Continue Reading →Songs in Our Heart # 43 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) (Written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour; released September 1975) [“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year…”]
Continue Reading →Songs in Our Heart # 42 You’re So Vain (Carly Simon) (Written by Carly Simon; released November 1972) [We’re calling our racehorse “Naturally.”]
Continue Reading →Songs in Our Heart # 41 Slave to the Rhythm (Grace Jones) (Written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn; released October 1985) [A 1980s orchestral dream enlivened by a primal force of nature – Miss Grace Jones.]
Continue Reading →17 August, 1876 In Bayreuth, Wagner’s great dream of a music festival playing nothing but Wagner (specifically, the Ring Cycle), concluded today 140 years ago. How many in the crowd cried “Danke Gott!” Or maybe, being mostly Bavarian and made of sterner stuff than most, many said “Grüß got!” For it had been a good day, a great week in fact. The Twilight of the Gods ended some 16 hours of music drama that left the audience drained and etiolated, but in a good way, like a pious married couple on the morning after the wedding. For his part Wagner…
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