Posts Tagged ‘movies’
My First Time …
For my reminiscenses on how I “got the bug” for classical music, check out my earlier blog “Discovering Classical Music” and my bio. But as an overview and focus on my “first time”: my parents were both musicians and music teachers, so I was exposed to music since before I can remember. My earliest experiences were […]
2 great movies and a new meaning for the term “soap opera”
While all of us on the WBJC staff love movies, we’re often annoyed by the way in which classical music is portrayed on the silver screen these days. If it’s used at all, it’s generally depicted as something stuffy rich people enjoy, or it’s the background music to a serial killer’s gruesome exploits. This wasn’t […]
Walking “The Way”
A couple of weeks ago my wife and I watched a new movie called “The Way” on DVD. We liked it so much that we saw it a second time a few days later, and then sat through it a third time to hear the commentary track by the filmmakers. “The Way” is […]
I Coulda Been a Contender… The BSO Goes to the Movies
You may recognize the opening title of this blog from one of history’s most famous film scenes starring Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform Leonard Bernstein’s score to On The Waterfront accompanying the film during the new season. This morning the BSO held a press conference […]
Does popularity breed contempt?
Jim & I actually watched the Oscars this past Sunday – a first for us, & we’ve been together since 2001. We don’t usually tune in to awards shows because they are so long & commercial-packed; if I want to see fashion pics from such events, there are plenty of websites that will help me […]
Oscar stuff…
Once again, the Academy Awards have come and gone, and, once again, I didn’t watch it on television. Once reason is that the only awards I am interested in come at the end of the program, and having to get up at 3:30 am…well, it’s just too late for me. Additionally, I like to say […]
What a weekend!
As you are probably aware, WBJC had its Winter On-Air Fund Drive last weekend. Our listeners were as generous as ever & we actually exceeded our projected financial goal for the drive, so we’re a tired, yet happy bunch this morning. Big thanks to everyone who called in a pledge – you keep the music […]
What a nice way to end a workday!
A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a man who needed me to help him ID a classical piece. That’s all in a day’s work around here, but there were a couple of unusual things about this request. First, the caller had a snippet of a recording to play for me, which […]
Getting in on the conversation
With “The Help” picking up four Oscar nominations today, I confess I’m only just catching up with this highly successful phenomenon. I was certainly not one of those who contributed to its being on the New York Times best seller list for more than 100 weeks! Having grown up under the egregious apartheid system in […]
Current TV: great for cooking shows, not much else.
A variation on Mark Malinkowski’s TV-themed post from this morning… Jim & I watch almost no TV. He’ll check out the occasional sporting event, especially college basketball (the first two days of March Madness count as a religious holiday for him, on which it would be very foolish of me to try to schedule anything […]
