Going on every possible podcast and only saying, “subscribe to my newsletter.”

Weird flex a few days after many of them, including the minority leader, voted to fund the military he controls the biggest budget in history

Except for the multiple differences in meter, melody, harmony, and orchestration

Because they are both in the minor key and the same time signature?

It would be weird if the documentary in question implied that!

Phillip, I am not your adversary! It is not dissimilar from the Shosta; I just hear more Stravinsky in it, a curse of my rhythm-first brain. Noticing similarities is all well and good; it is the suggestion that composers should be sued for being inspired by the wrong tune that I bristle at.

Oh, I got blocked by the doofus who suggested someone’s heirs or publishers — another extremely modern thing in the history of music —should seek a financial windfall because a piece of music sounds somewhat similar to something their grandpa wrote, for a few bars.

Nicholas Meyer specifically compared the opening notes to The Firebird in his liner notes for the original album. Not sure what Pulcinella has to do with anything, but glad you concur that Igor — like Holst — was a prolific repurposer of other people’s tunes!

They share four notes and similar orchestration, this is a thing which happens quite often in music!

Nothing in this overture even comes close to plagiarizing Holst; its closest antecedent — and another influence cited by the director — is Stravinsky’s Firebird. Of course, both Holst and Stravinsky built solid careers on melodies they didn’t compose — the idea of “stealing” music is quite modern.

In so many instances — Star Trek V/IX/X, Rent-a-Cop, King Solomon’s Mines, Poltergeist 2, Leviathan, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Final Conflict — the answer is, “music by Jerry Goldsmith”

And y’all were great!

The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble featured an oboe as part of their primary lineup, performed by future film composer and prolific conductor/arranger, Michael Kamen; additionally,their drummer subsequently changed his name to Mark Snow and composed all the music for The X-Files

The internet is terrible; your contribution to it is a blessing.

And a Quarter Pounder only cost the modern equivalent of $36

She can no longer distinguish between Wright and Wrong (this is a reference to a failed ABC pilot she starred in with Cheryl Hines and the late Carrie Fisher)

In the age of entertainment decision paralysis, what I love about baseball is that for more than half the year, there is an almost daily 3+ hours that is simultaneously familiar and unpredictable.