Mozart died at 35. Shubert was gone at 31, possibly from an STD and/or the treatment of it. He wrote a popular sonata for piano and a short-lived instrument called the Arpeggione. Today the piece is commonly performed on a cello, but it’s also played on a viola, as it is here in a lively performance on a Chandos CD I have.
Category: Music
Stag Nation
It’s deer mating season and a horny male attempted to hook up with good, ol’ Denro’s car.
Don’t Be Sore, Here’s Thor!
It’s Just a Jump to the Left!
A very long time ago in my carefree youth, before returning to Boston from Western Massachusetts I would attend midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They were at this place when it was new, near UMass in Amherst. Today, it’s another dead mall.
Console-ation Prize
Who will own the original solid-state mixing console used at Abbey Road to record Abbey Road?
https://reverb.com/item/84510567-emi-tg-12345-abbey-road-console
A Capitol Idea
More about Stu Phillips. In the Sixties he was behind the Hollyridge Strings series of albums.
I approached Karl Engemann at Capitol [Records] with a far-out idea of recording an album of Beatles songs in an orchestral setting geared toward easy listening. A sort of “Beatles for the older set.”
Phillips wasn’t the only one with that idea in 1964. Beatles producer George Martin produced instrumental versions of Beatles songs, starting with the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack.
George Martin then released his Off the Beatle Track album. I checked Martin’s memoir, All You Need is Ears, and there’s no mention of the Hollyridge Strings records.
Music from the first Hollyridge album by Phillips is featured on the Capitol album The Beatles Story.