The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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May 4, 2002: I Came From Out of the Sky to Meet William Blake
| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Format | Comments | Year | ||
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| Prokofiev | Les Ridicules (Love for Three Oranges) | Vox Box | CD | Enrique Batiz, London Philharmonic | ||||
| Rimsky-Korsakov | Christmas Eve, Suite #2 |
The Spirit of Russia
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Vox Box | CD | Othmar Maga, Bochum Symphony. There is nothing in this music to indicate it takes place on Christmas Eve. Rather, it describes a fantastical flying journey across Russia to the Czar's palace by a lovelorn supplicant, with dancing stars above & a witches' sabbath below. But the listener need not know even this much to be carried aloft by Rimsky's wonderful score. | |||
| The Beach Boys | All I Wanna Do (Listen: Real) | Sunflower | ||||||
| Respighi | La Primavera, from Trittico Bottielliano (Listen: Real) | Respghi - Martinu | Point Classics | CD | & now, the only WFMU DJ ever arrested for stalking another WFMU DJ, Bob Rixon. | |||
| Beautiful People | The Sea (Listen: Real) | CD | Hendrix pastiches | |||||
| Ingram Marshall | Fog Tropes (Listen: Real) | American Elegies | Nonesuch | CD | Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams | |||
| Neely Bruce / T.P. Ryder | Nearer My God to Thee Fantasy (Listen: Real) | Piano Music in America Vol 1, 19th Century Popular Concert & Parlor Music | Vox Box | Vinyl | Performed by Neely Bruce. An enormously entertaining box set, first in a series devoted to American Piano Music & unfortunately never released on CD. Bruce has made this music a specialty, with an equal committment to contemporary piano works. In his excellent liner notes (which I hope to copy to my website), Bruce points out that 19th Century American audiences had a "willingness to accept whatever comes next" in their entertainment. No remote control back then. | |||
| Al Melgard | Asleep In the Deep (Listen: Real) | Plays the Chicago Stadium Orgam | Vinyl | |||||
| Sandy Denny | It Will Take A Long, Long Time (Listen: Real) | Who Knows Where the Time Goes | ||||||
| Neil Young | Mideast Vacation (Listen: Real) | Life | ||||||
| Ustad Mohammad Omar | Keliwali (Listen: Real) | Urtu from Afghanistan | CD | |||||
| Leo Kraft | Cloud Study - Going Fast, for 12 Flutes | Autumn Rhythms | CRI | CD | ||||
| Skip Martin & the Video Allstars | Scheherajazz - Finale (Listen: Real) | Scheherajazz | Somerset | Vinyl | Skip was a fabulous Hollywood arranger with a sense of humor. He also jazzified Tannhauser, although these aren't the complete reworkings of the Elliington type. Using pretty much the same pool of musicians as Henry Mancini, his album of TV private themes with the "Video All-Stars" is perhaps the best in the genre, packing a very Basie-ish punch. | |||
| Amina Claudine Myers | 3/4 of 4/4 | Song for Myself | Vinyl | |||||
| Messiaen | Dieu Parm Nou | Le Nativite du Seigneur | Vinyl | Charles Kriegbaum, Organ | ||||
| Handel | Organ Concerto Op. 4 #1 Allegro | Handel 3 Organ Concerti | Point Classics | CD | Munich Chamber Orchestra, Georg Hlinka, with Johann Biber, Organ. A bargain CD. Handel was just about the only German ever good enough to make it as a British pop star, although Haydn came close. But Handel disliked Germany, loved England, & really lucked out when his former boss was imported as King George, for whom he composed "Water Music." | |||
| Dick Hyman | Goldfinger | Vinyl | ||||||
| Prokofiev, Serge | "Revolution" from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution | OCTOBER REVOLUTION Shostakovich / Prokofiev | BBC Music Magazine | CD |
BBC Symphony & Chorus, cond. by Mark Elder. This extraordinary work, from 1937, incorporates everything from battle sound effects to an accordion quartet. However, it failed to please the Stalinists. |
1996 | ||
| Gustav Holst | Mars, from The Planets, version for Two Pianos | Holst Music for Two Pianos | Naxos | CD | performed by Len Vorster & Robert Chamberlain | |||
| John Carpenter | Escapr from L.A. Suite | Choice Cuts, music from Films of Carpenter, Craven, DePalma | Milan | CD | Catch a wave with Peter Fonda | |||
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | It Came from Out of the Sky | Box Set | CD | |||||
| Marvin Gaye | Funky Space Incarnation | 12" single, from "Here, My Dear" | Vinyl | |||||
| Nina Simone | A Little Love | Baltimore | Vinyl | |||||
| Alfven, Hugo | Swedish Rhapsody |
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Vox Box | CD |
I've always played classical music from all periods; more so during my first decade at WFMU, when legendary Lou "The Duck" D'Antonio was here. In 1981, when I joined the staff at this station, the vinyl classical section of the music library, though comparably small, was nearly worn out. The Nonesuch Ives Violin & Piano Sonatas were almost unplayable. Many album jackets were falling apart from heavy use. Someone - many someones - had been programming this stuff into free form shows. Of course, classical music was "head" music in those days. |
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