Handel for Saturday

We are getting closer and closer to Christmas, so I thought this blog needed a bit more Christmas music. I thought a piece from The Messiah was in order. I could have uploaded a Christmas carol, but I really wanted some Handel tonight, something that is not exclusively Christmas related (I listen to it during Easter just as much, maybe more) yet fits the season and the wait. There will be Christmas carols in the upcoming days. Tonight it is For Unto Us a Child is Born. I think I found a good enough version on YouTube. I hope you enjoy.

Wish You Were Here

It might look like I cannot stop grieving Richard Wright, and I know I said that putting Wish You Were Here on this blog would be cliché, but there is this nice tribute I found on youtube and I don't see why I wouldn't put more Pink Floyd here anyway, especially since it's a great song. Unoriginality be damned.

Why do I love Pink Floyd that much? Well, because they made symphonic music more than modern ones, and is one of the very few rock groups that has both powerful music and powerful text. In other words, Pink Floyd was not marshmallow and fluffy stuff, it was music with content. Dealing with teenage alienation (like all teenager) in the 90s, the music seemed to illustrate my feelings and thoughts. I guess my choice of music never varied that much. I like "classical" music, whatever the time period, and opera. Pink Floyd is as operatic as a modern group can be. The Wall is, in essence, a modern opera (not a rock opera or a psychedelic opera or a musical, an opera, period). But the way the music does not merely accompany the voice but carries it is quite close to opera music. Of course, there is no story/plot in a Pink Floyd album (except The Wall, and even then), so maybe their music belongs to the form of the oratorio. Oh, well enough musing and let's get to the music.