1.8 Odyssey, Adagio, and Back to Work

6th April 2020 — A short break — Working on my music — Paris — Starting my personal system — Day 11 of 14 — About my odyssey through the history of recorded music — Gramophone magazine (founded 1923) used to cover all types of music — Digital archive — Spotify — Widening musical interests from the 80s to the present — Atlantis series of games from Cryo — World music — Pierre Estève and Stéphane Picq — Sounds of different cultures — Delving into classical music — BBC Music Magazine (founded 1992) — Years focused on writing — Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings — Oliver Stone and David Lynch on using that piece in their films — The Elephant Man — National Public Radio recording from the early 2000s — Platoon — NPR 100: “Barber’s Adagio for Strings” (9 minutes) — “As Time Goes By” from Casablanca (1942) — Many versions of the same songs — Quote from a soldier in World War II about hearing Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik — Our situation vs. theirs back then — Beauty hurting and healing — All the music of the world — Perspective — Good wishes