Telly Catch Up

[jazzy_dave]

I have been catching up on some telly as it has been a damp squid of a day, that is, after the football fans have watched their stuff. In particular, Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and The Tomorrow People. Okay, i am being doggedly persistent trying to believe that TTP might improve considerably but it hasn't and i still find myself using the remote to flick through most of it. However, with the former programme i am constantly glued to it, and i am sure will feel withdrawal symptoms when the season ends.

I also watched on catch-up the second part of the series on 19th Century music. I had not realized that William Herschel, a famous German astronomer, also wrote concertos and symphonies. He was a true polymath. Here is a movement from his Symphony No. 8

You learn something every day , and thus i shalt look  out for his music on my travels.

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

SHIELD is so, so good!! I'm enjoying every second...

*HUGS*

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

I'm loving "SHIELD" as well. It's such good fun.

And thanks for that bit of music. I wasn't aware that Herschel wrote music either; or if I was, I'd forgotten it. That's quite a nice piece though, isn't it.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I only knew him as an astronomer but it was the TV documentary on 18th Century British music that alerted me to the fact of him being a composer and quite prolific one with 24 symphonies and 14 concertos plus other works!

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Do you recall a real clunker of a show called NOWHERE MAN?

Enormous potential. Not merely epic fail, Edda fail.

If I'd been found and given creative control of the show, by now you'd be talking about it the way people talk about THE PRISONER.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Ho doubt

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Lovely movement. :)

SHIELD has gotten REALLY good the last couple of episodes. Wonder how they are going to end the season. :o
Hugs, Jon

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

So was his sister, who was no slouch as an astronomer either.

Love, C.