Fantastic Negrito: An Honest Man

The Threepenny Opera: Tango Ballad

Kurt Weill (Music)
Bertolt Brecht (Lyrics)

Don't Fence Me In

I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences
Gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in


Cole Porter, 1934

Music for Your Monday

Georges Delerue's Score for Le Mepris

Dvorak's Symphony No. 8

Movement III: I can't get it out of my head. So beautiful.

Bernard Hermann x North by Northwest

Love, love this brilliant classic:

Music for Your Monday

2001: A Space Odyssey

I went to a showing of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The NY Philharmonic played the score live while the film played. This piece being the most recognizable of course – big, loud, triumphant, and marvelous.

Mozart / Symphony No. 40

This past weekend, I went to a concert where this classic was played, and I was surprised to find the familiar music striking me anew with its beauty. Music is oftentimes more filling than food, and in this case, every movement was a satisfying course all on its own.

The program described this piece as Mozart making " 'an appeal to eternity' at a time when his worldly fortunes were in decline...Here we encounter the remarkable fusion of opposites – of passion and formal elegance, sorrow and exultation, darkness and light..."

Tuesday Tune: Holiday Romance

Dang that James Brown

Tuesday Tune: Here Comes The Night

Le Premiere Bonheur du Jour

 
Le Premiere Bonheur du Jour
(The First Joy of the Day)

The first joy of the day
Is a ribbon of sunshine
Unwinding in your hands
Caressing my shoulder

It’s the ocean sighing
And the beach that stretches before me
It’s the bird that sings
From a frozen tree

The first sorrow of the day
Is the front door closing
The car driving away
The silence that visits me

But soon you come home
And life comes back to me
The last joy of the day
Is the lamp lighting your way

Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries

Because before Apocalypse Now, this music existed and it was enough.
And glorious.

Because

my heart breaks every time the clarinet shyly leans and walks down those four steps.
Do you detect sadness and strength there as I do?
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. One of my favorite things on this Earth.

Medley

Bury My Body

Lil Buck + Yo Yo Ma

Dance Me To the Edge of Love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Jules et Jim / Georges Delerue

One of my absolute favorites: