Max Steiner – Casablanca suite
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News


Meet Tuva Semmingsen and Christine Nonbo Andersen (December 2021)
Solo Vocalists for the Danish National Orchestra
https://youtu.be/JEuvp4ZI1b8?t=50
(6:09)
Here’s a similar performance by the BBC Proms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvOY9H-zj8&list=RDBvvOY9H-zj8&start_radio=1
Here’s a similar performance (even better IMHO) by John Wilson, conducting the BBC Proms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvOY9H-zj8&list=RDBvvOY9H-zj8&start_radio=1
Two more favorite performances by the Proms orchestra, of two other great Hollywood suites, one by Erich Korngold and one by Miklos Rozsa:
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDyjPB_AEBU
“Ben-Hur” (1959): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueS07YbMeUw
So Phil, why didn’t you send these to me as suggestions for future evening pauses? It’s too late now, having been posted here.
If you’ve got more, email them to me.
Sorry, Bob. Just thought I’d add them to this particular string. Will try to do better next time.