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( Talking To Myself... )

The local NPR station produces a music history program called Echoes Of The Golden Age, and tonight's show was about drinking songs in opera. So that concept sparked a discussion between myself and Mum about her knowledge of drinking songs, and she told me a story ( Read more... )

( They Are Who I Thought They Were )

( Shot SEVENTY Years Ago, By Eisenstein. Music By Prokofiev. STILL Awesome. )

Western Communists Who Went The "Other" Direction Through The Iron Curtain.

I always wondered what happened to Dean Reed, the "Red Elvis". He was an American rock musician who went Communist, moved to East Germany and became a big star--partly by playing villainous CIA agents in propaganda movies. 60 Minutes did a profile on him back in the ( Read more... )

(A postscript to a previous entrySince I didn't have the 'Net last night ( Read more... )

The PBS program Great Performances is presenting this week the opera "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". Some of the hands behind the Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd" are behind this production as well. And yes, there is a song in this play that was made into hit rock records by the likes of David Bowie and the Doors ( Read more... )