Glass has selected the Boston Symphony Orchestra to premiere his new work, this summer at Tanglewood.
Category: Music
Glassical Music
Violin Concerto No. 1, by Philip Glass. From 1987, five years after Koyaanisqatsi.
Bombing Iran
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld saw regime change in Iraq as unfinished business from George Bush Sr.’s administration. They got Bush Jr. to go along with their plan to depose Saddam Hussein.
In 1980, while American embassy staff in Iran were being held as hostages, Trump was hanging around with his coke-snorting pal Roy Cohn. Donald sees Iran as unfinished business. That’s all there is to it, and nothing more.
Sky News isn’t quite right about 1980’s ‘Bomb Iran’. It was actually a parody of the Beach Boys cover of ‘Barbara Ann’.
Here’s the Doo-Wop original, by the Regents.
Armenia Calling
A city in the sky sounds like a better place to be.
From up there you can see for miles and miles.
Stax o’ Trax
I should have watched the HBO documentary, STAX: Soulsville USA before Steve Cropper died, but I’m doing it now. Eddie Floyd’s ‘Knock on Wood’ is my favorite in this collection. Who doesn’t love the theme from Shaft?
Calendar Girl Guy
Neil Sedaka has died. Sedaka had great success as a member of Don Kirshner’s Brill Building stable of songwriters and performers.*
Sedaka’s style of music was knocked off the charts by the British Invasion. Ten years later, he had a big comeback with ‘Laughter in the Rain’. We played this a lot at the radio station where I worked.
Sedaska co-wrote ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’, a #1 hit for The Captain & Tennille.
* The ‘Calendar Girl’ Scopitone video is from 1966, but the song is from 1961.