Yo-Yo Ma(nia) Film Score Friday

Yo-Yo Ma is in town this weekend for what is probably the biggest series of concerts we've ever done.

To that end I offer the following hodge-podge for Film Score Friday:

Hero - Tan Dun
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
Yo-Yo Ma Play Ennio Morricone
Fire, Water, Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio - Elliot Goldenthal
Concerto for Cello - John Williams
Silk Road Journeys - Silk Road Ensemble
The Protecting Veil - John Tavener (who is an honorary member of the category as he wrote some original music for Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men)

Contemplation Music for Sad Days

Choir Concerto - Alfred Schnittke
Coptic Light - Morton Feldman
You Are (Variations) - Steve Reich
Requiem - Herbert Howells

By the way...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, Festivus, Chanukkah, New Year, Kwanzaa...whatever.

I would also like to contribute the following:

We made it. It was tough and not a little grueling but it's over. It's like the elephant in the room and nobody seems prepared to discuss it. You know what I'm talking about.

The Mozart Anniversary Year

Congratulations, everybody. I think we managed to go the entire year in the call center listening to virtually none of Wolfgang's works. I understand that the concert season isn't over yet so there's still some to endure, but the technicality is the thing and the year is officially done.

And since the demise of our "Mozart Anniversary Year Countdown" clock you will (hopefully) notice that it has been replaced with a new clock that is simultaneously depressing and hopeful.

Happy New Year!