Category Archives: Music

Sarabande of Haendel – la folia later style

The fourth movement Sarabande of George Frideric Handel’s Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) for solo harpsichord achieved modern popularity when an orchestrated version was used by Stanley Kubrick for his 1975 film Barry Lyndon. Later, Brian De Palma featured the same orchestration as the overture for his 2007 film Redacted. Also, in another [...]

Nightingale by Yanni

One of my favorites songs.
The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often [...]

Journey

Capo Productions has been recording and producing music for over 15 years. Specialized in a wide variety of production styles such as classical, pop, house and hip hop, the music is a unique blend between symphonic and electronic. More about Capo Productions http://sites.google.com/site/capoproductions/

Chacaltaya, the world's highest ski resort (5,300 meters from sea level) near La Paz, Bolivia.
Chacaltaya, the world's highest ski resort (5,300 meters from sea level) near La Paz, Bolivia. Credit wili_hybrid
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Relax music, the ocean

Just to feel good, enjoy the summer.

Por una cabeza composed by Carlos Gardel

“Por una cabeza”, meaning “by a head [of a horse]” in Spanish, is the most famous and popular tango song conceived in 1935 by Carlos Gardel (composer) and Alfredo Le Pera (lyricist).
The lyrics of the song talk about a compulsive horse-track gambler who compares his addiction for the horses with his attraction [...]

The Aquarium from The Carnival of the Animals composed by Camille Saint-Saëns

Le Carnaval des Animaux’ (The Carnival of the Animals) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
Le Carnaval was composed in February 1886 while Saint-Saëns was vacationing in a small Austrian village. It was originally scored for a chamber group of flute, clarinet, two pianos, glass harmonica, xylophone, two [...]

Monterrey Bay Aquarium.
Monterrey Bay Aquarium. Credit ken mccown
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The chair not taken

Zach Cohen’s final project at Shenkar School of Design and Engineering, illustration department.
A short tale about politicians, seats and struggles in a Parliament far-far away.

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