A long line of ghosts, some famous, others unfairly forgotten, haunts Greg Freddyy" Camalier's splendid music documentary Muscle Shoals.
Who would not want to spend eternity in a place where wine from the cellar does not cost a penny, the kitchen is headed by St. Martha, and splendid music is courtesy of St. Cecilia and her kin?
As a Uyghur, an indigenous people of Chinese-occupied East Turkestan, who have a splendid music and song tradition, I just love great music and songs.
The rest of the cast is strong too, and the Opéra's splendid young music director Philippe Jordan conducts.
Kershaw's narration sounded just as relaxed and conversational as his interactions, and the programme was knitted together with some splendid plucky music.
There's splendid orchestral music, in a very dark, minor hue for much of the film, composed by Akira Ifukube, and then there are the long, wordless sequences in the film, where no one speaks and where the stillness and ominousness of the film seems to make the monster's destructive swath that much more overpowering.
On the bright side, there is a splendid classical-music station WTMI), and a new art museum, in Fort Lauderdale.
There are acoustically splendid open-air music structures where amplification is unnecessary, like the Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Musically, the production — with Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs as musical directors and with the violinist Robert Mealy energetically leading the splendid Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra — is wonderful.
Best of all was the work of the concertmaster, Natalie Kress, who was visibly overwhelmed afterward by the instantaneous standing ovation rightly earned by her splendid playing of music meant to represent Strauss's wife.
I went to Hvar as an accidental tourist last summer, accompanying my 8-year-old son, Joseph, who enrolled as a cello student in the splendid Uzmah (Upbeat) music school in Hvar.
