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Ed Droste recommended track Serenade after Plato's Symposium Phaedrus Pausanias by Leonard Bernstein in A Leonard Bernstein Weekend by Leonard Bernstein in Music (curated)

 
A Leonard Bernstein Weekend by Leonard Bernstein
A Leonard Bernstein Weekend by Leonard Bernstein
2005 | Classical
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Serenade after Plato's Symposium Phaedrus Pausanias by Leonard Bernstein

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"My Father introduced me to this, he was very passionate about culture, literature and music, especially jazz and classical music and he would take me to see it. I lived in L.A. and on the long drives home he’d put on whatever music he was interested in at the time and was always really passionate about it. “I was a classical and jazz nerd when I was a kid, that’s what was around me and what I was learning about. My older brother started learning the guitar when I was about ten and I started then too, I got really serious about it and he sort of stopped. “I’m of a generation where we really listened to records as records, I’d go extremely deep with symphonies and jazz records and this one was really major. It’s a piece of music that’s stuck with me since I was fourteen years old, it’s the harmonic sensibility in it, the drama and the way it paints this very intense, almost kind of landscape picture. There’s a mid-20th Century sense of harmony to it that’s stuck with me and I’ve continued revisiting it and referencing it in my mind as an example of really rich, really emotive writing, without any words whatsoever. “It was my first experience of a deeply technical piece of music that was deeply emotional and accessed your emotional brain in a really intense and overwhelming way. That’s always been the goal, not to make music that’s cerebral, but to use your technical ability to channel something that hits your emotional brain and takes your entire brain over in almost a trance-like experience. “This was the first piece of music that I heard that had that level of complexity, but it was still as affecting as a Beatles record."

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Robert Englund recommended Anatomy of a Murder (1959) in Movies (curated)

 
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
1959 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
6.3 (3 Ratings)
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"My number two movie is Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of Murder starring Jimmy Stewart — one of my favorite James Stewart performances. He’s the country lawyer, so all those folksy tricks that Jimmy Stewart uses just really come into play here– ’cause he’s also so bright, you know? He’s the brilliant, folksy country lawyer. And Lee Remick is in it, in the flower of her youth. Bra-less and in Ray-Bans — you know, who doesn’t want [to see] that? And gosh, Ben Gazzara in a really neurotic, strange performance. I think it’s the screen debut of George C. Scott as the young lawyer from Lansing, MI, who takes on this case; and he’s — it’s just brilliant courtroom stuff. Murray Hamilton — who plays the mayor in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws — he’s the bartender, and he’s wonderful; it’s a great turn. And the music: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, so it’s a great jazz score. The Jimmy Stewart character tinkles on the ivories and he plays a little bit of jazz sometimes as a kind of hobby, so that justifies the score. But that’s a great film — black and white, beautifully shot, underrated. Almost a perfect film."

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated La La Land (2016) in Movies

Jul 30, 2017  
La La Land (2016)
La La Land (2016)
2016 | Comedy, Drama, Musical
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7.5 (63 Ratings)
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Ending was bittersweet (0 more)
Preppy music was irritating (1 more)
Black stars were secondary although the film was about jazz
Why did this win so many awards?
First of all I'm still completely baffled at how this received so many awards when there were clearly much better films out there. Second of all, the music was beyond irritating to the point I turned the volume down every time it came on. There were some beautiful heartfelt moments but I'm still thinking 70:30 in terms of bad to good ratio. Disappointing after all the hype.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen, #15) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen, #15)
Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen, #15)
Joanne Fluke | 2012 | Mystery
6
7.8 (4 Ratings)
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When the piano player of a jazz band is killed, Hannah springs into action to find his killer. Meanwhile, she's also looking for a way to stop Hannah from marrying Dr. Bev. The characters were great as always, and the mystery was fun. But the Norman/Dr. Bev story was unrealistic. I'm hoping, however, that it is leading to the end of the Hannah/Norman/Mike love triangle.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-cinnamon-roll-murder-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.