Sad news: Michael Lee Aday – aka Meat Loaf – has died at the age of 74. Video of Bat Out of Hell.
‘Busy Doing Nothing’ (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) from the film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (directed by Tay Garnett; released 1949) sung by Bing Crosby, William Bendix & Cedric Hardwicke.
A favourite earworm of yours truly! The above is a studio recording (for Decca?). Following is the song from the film soundtrack, same artists (I think Victor Young...
Royal Academy of Music today at lunchtime: Andrew Gourlay replaces Christian Thielemann.
https://tickets.ram.ac.uk/sales/categories/orchestral/christian-thielemann-conducts–1/balcony-front-rows On January 23, 2016, Thielemann conducted at the RAM, a performance of Richard Strauss’s Death & Transfiguration, from which the RAM has posted the...
Kenneth Woods conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra; August 28, 2021; Macky Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado. Plus the premiere of Philip Sawyers’s Fifth; also August 28.
World premiere of Philip Sawyers’s Symphony 5; August 28, 2021: “Please help keep the music playing! Celebrate Giving Tuesday (11/30) and Colorado Gives Day (12/7) by making a donation to support our work. https://mahlerfest.org/donations/” Ken has...