Another suggestion for your Halloween plans: László Lajtha's String Quartet No 10, Op 58 "Suite Transylvaine".

* * *"Beethoven's piano playing was overwhelming -- powerful, surging, driven, raw, elemental and confident. He played with the entire arm from the shoulder, instead of from the wrist with the arms by his sides. Many of ( Read more... )

"But, alas, we will likely never know the answer, for I fear that there is just no way we can reliably estimate the drag coefficient of a flaming balrog."

You can get an odd view of a movie, when all you know comes from reading the liner to the soundtrack. I had one of those odd views to an upcoming release called "The Astronaut Farmer ( Read more... )