Post Midnight Music

Just realised it is now after midnight and i am in my local Spoons pub.
So the music post will be a post midnight one.


Tim Brady- Red Melisma

Alan Hovhaness - Sinfonia n. 6 op. 173 "Celestial Gate"

Nels Cline - The Bed We Made

Thomas Adès - In Seven Days

Thomas Adès (*1971): "In Seven Days" for piano, video-installation and orchestra [2008]

I. Chaos - Light - Dark 00:00

II. Separation of the waters into sea and sky 08:43

III. Land - Grass - Trees 13:00

IV. Stars - Sun - Moon 18:32

V. Fugue: Creatures of the Sea and Sky 21:48

VI. Fugue: Creatures of the Land 24:52

VII. Contemplation 27:19


 

Just Wondering

Who is your favourite lady detective from movies, books, or TV?

Do you know any party tricks that can impress a crowd? Or even just a little kid?

What mistake made in your youth do you most regret now?

In Canterbury

Good day folks. I am in Canterbury about to do a couple of phone shop visits. It is a mild day but with the cloud cover there is no visible sign of the sun. Nonetheless, once i have completed these shops i shall be perusing,before i head off for an evening meal in Sheerness.

Rietz - Clarinet Concerto

Whilst in Canterbury i found this CD for a quid in a Charity shop.



The bauble CD includes this piece - one i have not heard of before -

Julius Rietz - Clarinet Concerto in G minor

Concerto for clarinet & orchestra in G minor, op. 29

Sharon Kam -- clarinet
Sinfonia Varsovia
Gregor Bühl -- conductor

I. Allegro Agitato -- 0:00
II. Adagio -- 8:27
III. Allegro vivace -- 14:38

Julius Rietz was a German composer, conductor and Cellist. He succeeded Mendelssohn as conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts and as teacher of composition at the Conservatory.
(Wikipedia)

The Style of this splendid concerto is unmistakably Mendelssohnian.

Finzi - Clarinet Concerto

Talking of the clarinet here is another clarinet concerto by one of lesser known composers, Finzi, whom should be better known.

Gerald Finzi - Clarinet Concerto

GERALD FINZI
Clarinet Concerto, Op.31

Robert Plane, clarinet
Northern Sinfonia
Howard Griffiths

Oliver

He is still a sweetie =

"Our old feller Oliver has his 16th birthday today. He's a little frail nowadays but still loves my lap, bless him."

Mike

Flat Cat

Riley looks so relaxed!

Book 19 - Maya Angelou "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"

Maya Angelou "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" (Virago)





In this first of Angelou's memoirs, Maya and her brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, AR, when they are young children. They are raised in a strict but loving home and are aware, even at their tender ages, of the prejudices all around them. The children would sporadically live with their mother in St. Louis, their father in California and ultimately with their mother when she too moved to California. Both children were avid readers and excellent students. Maya's love for the written word would be her lifelong passion.

Although there were many instances of sadness, prejudice and even abuse, there was also a good deal of humor. The trip to Mexico with her father was quite funny as a 15-year-old Maya decided to drive her father's Hudson back to California, never mind that she had never driven a car before, with a drunk Daddy in the back seat. After crashing into another car at the border guard station and witnesses noticed the body on the back seat the incident nearly became criminal.

Maya spent a month living in a junk yard car, fought to become the first black allowed to work on city streetcars, and became pregnant at age 16. All of these things might have crushed a young girl's dreams, but Maya embraced all of her experiences into the woman she would become.

Highly recommended.

Currently Reading ...

An update on these books i am reading or about to read -

Bill Bryson - A Short History Of Everything
Georges Simenon - Felice
Georges Perec - Life,A User Manual
James Watson - The Double Helix
Walter Benjamin - Illuminations
Andrew Motion - Philip Larkin, A Writer's Life
Simone de Beauvoir - Letters To Sartre
Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove

Why Buffy Is Special

Just to remind you how great Buffy was and still is to fans - a couple of links *(and thanks to those who sent me the links).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 20: the thrilling, brilliant birth of TV as ar

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/10/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-at-20-the-thrilling-brilliant-birth-of-tv-as-art



10 FAMOUS WRITERS ON LOVING BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER



http://lithub.com/10-famous-writers-on-loving-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/

In Sheerness

For my evening dinner at Spoons in Sheerness i had the steak and eggs with a jacket potato washed dawn with the house Merlot and a can of Snake Dog IPA. I then had a couple or few of the Thornbridge Jaipur ale (5.7 % ABV). One of my favourite ales.

Just Wondering

If you could only eat one kind of cuisine—Mexican, Thai, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, etc.—for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?

What's your favourite dessert?

From Dr. Polidori's Lord Ruthven to Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen, the annals of vampire lore are filled with attractive, charming bloodsuckers. Which one would you most want to be bitten by?

Sunday Music Selection - Very Wired

Latest Wire mag is out,the April edition,so expect it to be forefront avant garde stuff.



Galerie Stratique - Horizons Lointains

( More Wired sounds )

Enjoy.

Simon Fisher Turner

Bit heard of him - well now is your chance ..

Simon Fisher Turner - Caravaggio Soundtrack parts 1-5

Uploaded on Nov 28, 2010
1. the hills of abruzzi
2. the dog star
3. all paths lead to rome
4. fantasia, childhood memories
5. how blue sky was

This is just one if his awesome soundtracks .

Good Night

Feeling sleepy now.