And Now, An Important Message

Some Not-So-Serious Music

And speaking of Bach . . . .

Well, someone's putting on the dog!

And this bunch is putting on the cat!

Here's a handy cheat sheet for identifying composers . . . .

Let's end with some Mozart . . . .

I recently watched the new series remake of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. To be blunt, it cannot hold a candle to the 1984 film made by Miloš Forman. To the piecemeal extent that the remake's screenplay still uses Peter Shaffer's original script, it attains some depth. But the additional dialogue and scenes inserted into the screenplay to make it more "hip, contemporary and relatable to today's audience" are appallingly superficial and jarringly out of place. Ordinarily, I quite like Paul Bettany (Salieri) as an actor who is capable of great subtlety and depth of portrayal. While he did bring some excellent heart and soul to the climactic moments from the original script, he was otherwise completely wasted here.

Can only give this series 2 out of 5 stars, unfortunately.

Bad Bunny! BAD BUNNY!

No, not THAT Bad Bunny!

THIS Bad Bunny!

I don't give a shit about American football,

but you can bet I'll be watching

the Super Bowl Halftime Show tomorrow!

I hope Bad Bunny DOES wear a

Liam Conejo Ramos' bunny hat

during the show!

What an even more powerful

statement that would make!

All the haters in MAGA

will be streaming their own

sorry excuse for a halftime show

somewhere on the internet --

Go, Bad Bunny, Go!

You are the best of America!

And Now, A Musical Interlude

Silly Serious Music (Updated!)

If famous composers were cats --

Unbeknownst to me, it turns out that this is an actual piano score! It is called Toc-cat-a in B for Pawiano and was written by Noam Oxman in honour of a cat named Latte! Here is a recording of it --

Thanks to intrepid blogging buddy Jim of Road to Parnassus for researching that meme and letting us know the results! More whimsical animal compositions by Noam Osman are found here.

Be Sure to Groan IN TUNE