Archive for the 'TV' Category

Dammit!

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

24 Season Two: The Musical is from the guys who brought us Silence: The Musical.  Now, I’m not necessarily a musical theatre person, but this hilarious send-up of 24 is irresistible to anyone familiar with the show, especially season two. Composers Jon & Al Kaplan even make use of the show’s themes composed by Sean […]

Dudamel on 60 Minutes

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

If you didn’t catch it (like myself), you can watch it on Yahoo! here.
http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/143/gustavo_dudamel
I had the Dudamel hot dog at Pink’s the other day. It’s pretty wild. You have guacamole, jalapenos, and some tortilla chips sticking right up out of the dog itself. Go try it!
After seeing those clips of Dudamel, a chill went down […]

Paris By Way of Music

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

In Paris, there is live music everywhere you go. You have a copious amount of street musicians, some who have no qualms about jumping on the metro with you and playing to the captive audience. Other times you have semi-professional people who play with a very polished sound, but more intriguingly you have a variety […]

Classical Music Doesn’t Exist

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Watching Jeopardy usually means watching three people spew esoteric knowledge as quickly as their encyclopedic retrievals allow. Yet a couple nights ago I saw an episode that truly showed me what these fearless people fear most. Of the categories on the board, one was left utterly untouched until the very last moment when it became […]

The Japanese Mahler

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

 
One of the best composers who ever did film scores as well as concert music was Toru Takemitsu. He should be included on any list of great film composers. The proof was in his many scores, especially for Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Teshigahara. He could take very modern musical textures and make them work into […]