Archive for the ‘Old Music’ Category
Baroque Period Music
I do of course also like some of the sad and dark moments in the baroque music era as well, one that i love is didos lament (when i am laid in earth) from henry purcells opera dido and aeneas. This aria is really beautiful and very sad indeed, it cannot fail to move anyone [...]
June 30, 2010
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Battle Weary People
It is a darkening Saturday evening in Baghdad. The shops are closing and the roads are blocked with traffic. At the side of one congested dual carriageway in the north-east of the city a group of friends have gathered at a small, whitewashed theatre.
On the stage the red brocade curtains are drawn open and a [...]
June 8, 2010
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A black requiem played to old music
The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, the South’s novelist laureate and a famous son of Mississippi. “It’s not even past.” And so it was that about 10,000 Chicagoans attended services, jammed the airwaves and trooped past the open coffin of Mamie Till Mobley this weekend.
As the 81-year-old was laid to rest with [...]
June 8, 2010
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The day the music died
These were worthwhile words, that got rather lost in his misinterpreted remarks on the alleged bankruptcy of BritArt. But one striking thing about them was how they could also apply to pop music - a cultural form at which Britain has been rather good. Certainly the efforts of our classical composers have earned rather less [...]
June 8, 2010
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Mood music and memorial pages
As US broadcasters fought for the right words to encapsulate the feelings of the nation, music often turned out to be the simplest form of communication.
Some of the families of those who had died in the attacks had asked television networks to try to avoid the constant repetition of the moments that the World [...]
June 8, 2010
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