Music: August 2008 Archives

It's a holiday weekend in the US, so here's one of the most well-known classical music pieces, conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1966. Karajan was able to interpret Beethoven like maybe no other conductor, and it's well worth watching this for the camera work as well as for Karajan's conducting (oh, and of course it sounds great).

It was 1991, and I went to see a whole bunch of bands at a little open air show in Cologne, incl. Dinosaur jr. and Sonic Youth, and it was probably the best concert I've ever been to. Nirvana were supposed to play, but they didn't show up (or whatever - I didn't care).

(I almost want to make a photography-lyrics version of this...)

Instead of a Friday movie recommendation, today it's Tom Waits In Concert (2008), full length. It doesn't get any better than that.