Heroes

August 26, 2016 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Modern Music, MUSIC |

(photo: Jo Altmon)

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.]

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Wish You Were Here

August 25, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | Modern Music, MUSIC |

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…”]

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You’re So Vain

August 20, 2016 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Modern Music, MUSIC |

Songs in Our Heart # 42 You’re So Vain (Carly Simon) (Written by Carly Simon; released November 1972) [We’re calling our racehorse “Naturally.”]

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Slave to the Rhythm

August 19, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | Modern Music, MUSIC |

(photo of Grace by Stuart Sevastos)

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.]

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Das Ende

August 17, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | HISTORY, LIFE, MUSIC, OPERA, Opera, WAGNER |

"Wakey, wakey Brunhild!" (Otto Donner von Richter) (c. 1892)

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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