Author: Don

Mozart’s take on yesterday’s theme, “Ah, vous dirai-je maman,” which you may know by another name. Romanian pianist Clara Haskil studied with Dohnányi and Alfred Cortot and was a friend of Charlie Chaplin.

For more twinkling, see here and here.

Written by Dohnányi “for the enjoyment of lovers of humor, and the annoyance of others.”

Some more high culture from the Lindley Armstrong Jones Chamber Opera Company.

In Ghent there is a public Japanese piano for the convenience of passers-by who play Japanese game music.

Martin Mull channels Warren Harding after his own fashion.

A forgotten surf classic.

I haven’t posted enough Chopin. Here’s my favorite ballade, played by my preferred Chopin pianist.

One of my theme songs.

A paranoid classic. Although Clear Light didn’t last long, some of the members subsequently had notable careers. Drummer Dallas Taylor played with Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young; vocalist Cliff de Young acted in a number of movie and TV shows I never watched; bassist Doug Lubahn played on three Doors albums and later co-founded Dreams.

One of Richard Thompson’s more memorable songs.

“Mt. Gulug” from Final Fantasy IX, composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged for winds.

Still the most beautiful love song of the 21st century so far.

Danny Elfman gets weird. Or weirder.

From Gryphon’s second and best album, music Richard Harvey originally composed for a production of The Tempest.

I heard this at the grocery store yesterday. Edgy golden age rock has become Muzak.

Middle-period Steeleye Span doing one of their own tunes.

Here’s Liszt the circus acrobat, as played by Gyorgy Cziffra. Cziffra actually was a circus performer during his childhood.

If the guitar sounds a bit like something from Led Zeppelin’s first album, it’s a very curious coincidence indeed. But of course Jimmy Page would never claim credit for anything that wasn’t his, would he?

Peter Schickele is not the only one who can play the quodlibet game. Here’s Ernest Tomlinson’s Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne. (Via Bayou Renaissance Man.)