The Imperial March first appeared in the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, and was not heard in the preceding original movie. Indeed, not only is the march absent from A New Hope, there's no theme…
It is well known that the classic song When You Wish Upon a Star appears several times in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and mostly in the score composed by John Williams:
Several years ago, I went down a shallow rabbit hole on Roman history and culture, and eventually ended up googling “roman music”. The early music group Synaulia seemed to be leaders in the field of performing Roman music, so I…
Much ink and “ink” have been spilled about Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo. This includes reference to, if not discussion of, how the musical score (composed by Bernard Herrmann) evokes Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. However, many such articles that…
This is the first in what I plan to be a series of posts focusing on aspects of John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars movies. What I hope will be unique about my analyses is that they will examine…
I honestly have no recollection of how I first heard of this band, but I do remember the description of “vaudcore” grabbing my interest. Vaudcore is a term coined by the band…
Group: Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen Album: Rimur Track: O Jesu Dulcissime
It’s odd that Norwegian vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval came across my radar only relatively recently, given my long-standing love of Anonymous 4. Perhaps love is truly, as they…