I’m sorry, I’ve been so busy lately, and if I don’t get started on these posts first thing in the morning, it’s very hard for me to write anything of consequence that reads well. Generally speaking, the earlier I write, the better. Best is when it’s so early, I can’t even think. Just sit down with a cup of coffee and let those fingers go.
But life is such that I can’t always do that. Which is why, for Gustav Mahler’s birthday, here I am at 11:00 a.m., sharing a video of Yoda, Gandalf, and Voldemort conducting the “Resurrection” Symphony. Hey, don’t let it be said that I don’t do my part to popularize the classics.
And it’s not like it’s that farfetched. Dismiss the concept, if you’d like, as puerile nonsense, but it would take wizards of this magnitude to translate the work’s emotional grandeur into images worthy of its transcendent power, even if the music itself is more seismic, uplifting, and transformative than anything that could possibly be expressed on a motion picture screen.
Let me know which of the three you think has the best technique, if you’re so inclined, and happy birthday, Gustav Mahler.
Tag: Gandalf
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“Fantastic” Conductors Tackle Mahler’s “Resurrection”
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Wizards Sci-Fi Movies This Friday
Start your weekend with an irascible, grey-bearded necromancer and a half-mad seeker of arcane knowledge.
That’s right, it’s me. I’ll also be talking about Gandalf the Grey and Dr. Hans Reinhardt, Disney’s Captain Nemo in space.
Join me for a Friday double-header:
At 6:00 EDT, it’s “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, featuring superior scores from films about wizards and sorcerers – including “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Howard Shore), “The Sword and the Sorcerer” (David Whitaker), “Dragonslayer” (Alex North), and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (John Williams) – on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Then at 7:00 EDT, I’ll be donning Reinhardt scarlet, as Roy Bjellquist and I delve into “The Black Hole” (1979), on the Facebook live-stream series “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.” You’ll find more information on that, when you follow the link.
https://www.facebook.com/events/649274212291005/
It’s a journey that begins where everything ends. Except minutiae.
Open up a cold one, and tag along.
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