Quote by Cora Technically this is a miniseries but I very much like the work of Hans Zimmer. I think most of his work is done with war movies, i.e. "The Thin Red Line."
He does everything. Hans is like the German John Williams nowadays. He did a lot of the DC superhero movies, a lot of Christopher Nolan's movies (e.g. Interstellar and Inception), the recent Dune I & II. Even did the last Bond movie. And still finds time to tour with his own orchestra performing his works in major concert venues.
Speaking of the last Bond movie, while Zimmer did the score, the theme was by Billie Eilish and her brother Finn O'Connell and it's one of my favourite Eilish songs.
Since she was the reason YouTube recommended that in the first place, here's Laufey herself with the NSO doing her hit, "From The Start". I think it's no secret I adore this young up-and-coming multitalented performer.
And from a recent appearance at Kennedy Center with the National Symphony, Jacob teams up with Icelandic jazz singer-songwriter Laufey and English singer-songwriter dodie for an amazing performance of "Wild Mountain Thyme" that includes some of his trademark audience singing.
I have known of Jacob Collier for a while and have seen videos of his rather unique audience interactions. But this may be the first song of his that I have listened to and it's a beauty. With the brilliant folk-country mandolinist Chris Thile and Madison Cunningham along for the ride, this is just wonderful.
The banner says $150 and your post and the comp page say $100. Or is that a joke about the comp theme?😁
This is a terrific theme. My brain is stewing over it already.
And it's timely. I need some focus for my writing. I am way overdue for a new story here and maybe this will get my head into a space where I can get one out.
Good morning! Anyone else notice there's a comp banner up on the front page? No announcement post yet but it's there and links to a comp page. Awaiting Molly's official announcement before I say more.
Putting on some Tobermory Flowerpot Island coffee. Teas are Red Rose and Cream of Earl Grey.
Have you played any of the games? I hear the series is fantastic but I'm always wary of videogame adaptations for games I know little to nothing about. Which means I'm still waiting for that epic Space Invaders premium TV series. 😀
Quote by Cora My eye isn't fully healed but I'm near close to full recovery.
Glad to hear. Take it easy and get thyself well.
I've had dizziness. The classic is the night I passed out in my son's room. Had just started on BP meds and I guess I wasn't used to having my BP artificially lowered yet. Got dizzy, then fainted.
That's a new song I'm going to write. Guaranteed hit. It will be done as melodic death metal. 😲
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Okay, no. Sounds more like some kind of chipper pop tune or maybe old-fashioned rock and roll (I'm hearing a lively 50s dance tune a la Bill Haley and the Comets there).
We's gots coffee, Kicking Horse 454 Horsepower Dark Roast. And we's gots tea, too. Russian Caravan and Canadian Breakfast. There's hot water for other hot beverage and I've washed and refilled the cold drinks.
I am more than happy to go with that. We have a national radio station called Classic FM. They too include many film scores and other pieces that can't really be classed as strictly Classical. Maybe they should be called Orchestral FM? But then I suppose not all Classical music is necessarily orchestral...
Of course, if you're going to get really strict, Classical is just the music between Baroque and Romantic, so Haydn, Mozart, early Beethoven, Salieri, etc. 😉
Mains. In fact, I installed a central vacuum system. Motor and dust bin are in the garage and I just connect a hose to an outlet in the wall. There's like 3 outlets in strategic locations so I can reach the whole house with a 30' hose.
Jon and Vangelis were my gateway drug to Yes. I already knew Vangelis and Jon's voice fascinated me, leading me to check out his main band. The two were fantastic together and songs like the one Anna posted and this one remain favourites to this day.
I've legit written more in the last week or so while listening to my Tommy than I have in the last year.
This might be of interest (not sure how much of it you already know). Some Tom Petty trivia. Like the fact that he appeared 8 times as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Or that when The Heartbreakers original drummer left in 1994, the first offer to replace him went to Dave Grohl (this was just after Kurt's death put an end to Nirvana). Grohl drummed for the band on an SNL appearance but turned down the offer.
Quote by verbal Who knew I would become an acupuncture junkie?
My resident artist on Wondercafe2 swears by it and alternative medicine in general. She's got some kind of chronic fatigue thing that mainsteam medicine hasn't been able to treat. You should change your board name to "Pincushion" and use Pinhead from Hellraiser as your avatar.🤣
Quote by verbal The cats and I will be bacheloring it up with Taco Bell and bad monster movies and baseball games.
Plagues are the new zombies. Kill the world with a contagion.
Wonder how that happened, eh.😊
I've noticed, too, that zombies themselves are getting more variety. The use of fungus-based zombies, which actually have a basis in reality, in The Last of Us comes to mind.
Quote by AnnaMayZing However, although such t music will become classic in the future, I would say that it isn't in that category in the present.
LOL. Tell that to the streaming services. If it is orchestral or even vaguely operatic vocals (think Sarah Brightman or Three Tenors), it often gets socked into classical nowadays. Lines are very blurry. Legendary classical label Deutsche Grammophon released a live album of John Williams' film music (conducted by Williams himself) and that gets tagged classical due to who released it. If "All the Works..." had been released as a separate disc titled "Holopainen : Orchestral Suite No. 1 : All The Works..." rather than being part of Human : || : Nature, I can almost guarantee that someone would tag it "classical".
Voces8 is a vocal octet from England who have been putting out some fantastic work for a couple decades now. Founded by brothers Paul (formerly a bass-baritone but no longer sings, focussing on management of the group and its educational programs instead) and Barnaby (counter-tenor and music director) Smith, they sing repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, with the present including settings of popular music as well as contemporary choral works by composers like Eric Whitacre and Christopher Tin.
But since this is the classical thread, here's a couple of their performances of older works.
Some Bach
And a double motet by 16th century English composer William Byrd
The blonde soprano in these is Eleanor Cockerham who is an amazing singer in her own right. She left Voces8 a couple years ago but comes back from time to time, esp. when they gather with their associated groups and students to form larger choirs.
