Sunrise Symphonies?

[karlhenning]

Today I woke up with the music from the credit-card commercial showing people with ADHD swirling through a toy store, which comes to halt when a mother starts to write a check, instead of swiping her (Visa?) credit card.

I believe the music comes from Danny Elfman's score to Pee Wee's Big Adventure.  It accompanies a scene in the kitchen where he is racing around like a lunatic.

I thankfully never saw the movie, but recall the music from an excerpt shown in the 80's on Siskel and Ebert, the movie review show. 

Yes, that's the kind of curse my musical memory can be!   

This is my favorite post of today!

[mahlertitan]

I am a sound sleeper, so my alarm clocks sounds off Bruckner's 3rd every morning, the only music that can get me out of the bed.

[Cato]

I am a sound sleeper, so my alarm clocks sounds off Bruckner's 3rd every morning, the only music that can get me out of the bed.

That is some alarm clock!  Is it the BOSE CD-Player/Radio?

[Cato]

Today at 5:20 A.M. the brain was playing Liadov's Baba Yaga, one of the greatest works under 5 minutes ever composed!

Of course, Halloween is coming next week!   

[Cato]

Today the crazy-quilt Scherzo of Charles Ives' Fourth Symphony was in the brain at 5:30 A.M, complete with the clarinets doodling dueling hymns in cross-rhythms with everyone else.

Since "crazy-quilt" quite accurately describes my life riight now, my brain's subconscious choice is not surprising!   

Any other cock-a-doodle-do duets or dithyrambs out there?

[Kullervo]

This morning I was thinking about the first few notes of Sibelius's 5th.

[Renfield]

This morning I was thinking about the first few notes of Sibelius's 5th.

Whereas I was mulling over the first notes of Bruckner's 5th, after I went to sleep last night following a full "performance" of Horenstein's recording, on BBC Legends. Joy!

[Cato]

Whereas I was mulling over the first notes of Bruckner's 5th, after I went to sleep last night following a full "performance" of Horenstein's recording, on BBC Legends. Joy!

Those first few notes could put you back to sleep!  But in a few more bars Bruckner will wake you up!

Of course a few more bars will also put you back to sleep, especially if you drink breakfast!

Interesting that my sleeping-then-waking brain has focused on works which I have not heard in decades: yesterday and today the last few minutes of Tchaikovsky's Marche Slav started parading through the ears.

I must be in some sort of subconscious nostagia cycle: nostalgia is something which I have always considered a disease.  Probably 30 years have gone by since I actually heard the entire thing on a recording!      

There's a warning to all you young gals 'n' fellers!