Of Notes and Tunes

Notion - Ranjish Hi Sahi ' The apt representation of what this song elicits would have in fact been a blank page - or probably a line that started with spaces and trailed with periods. For I really know no words that can articulate what this song does to me. But I shall attempt. Only because today has been a day of having faith and believing in my instinctive impulses (there’s a blog coming up about it separately too!). And this impulse deserved all my time and effort and heart and ... The song’s playing in the background, and even if I pause it, it will resonate in me. With that happening, it becomes extremely difficult to do anything else. So do excuse the abrupt sentences. ' These were thoughts noted down in February 2018. And I never hit 'Publish' then. And it's September 2018 now.  I have come back to this piece of mine many times in the past few months. But I have always hidden it away, even from myself.  Ever felt the need to, actively, not spea...

Notion - Musical Identity Song - Thomas Newman's That Next Place Human memory is bizarre and confounding. At least mine is. Strangest details stay organically preserved as though the gray matter cultivated them. I was a young kid and my sister a teenager when my mother very matter-of-factly revealed to her who was the killer in the novel she was reading at that time. Five or six years later, when I picked up the same novel and that character's name appeared matter-of-factly on page 30 or so, I yelled out to my mother that she had ruined the novel for me. That name stuck with me for all those years even though it was a She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named name in my house.  So it isn't surprising for me that a conversation between my father and his friend, about a movie uncle had really liked and recommended to my father, stayed vaguely distinct with me for years along. Uncle had described Meet Joe Black as an absolutely marvelous movie starring an honorable Sir Anthony Hopki...

Notion - John Williams Song - John Williams conducts Jurassic Park I can only steal good quotes or a few famous lines about music and its greatness for all there is to be said, asked, argued or praised about it is already in print. And where words have failed to express a view about music, music itself has expressed it expressly. Music, in all its forms, has a hold on me like it does on very many souls and I consider myself truly blessed to be moved by it. But I have a peculiar interest that has seldom and scarcely been shared by other music lovers I know. Background scores. I was the only 10 year old I knew who owned a Titanic cassette in 1997. Of course, my mother assumed it had other songs besides 'My heart will go on' but little did she know that I had the album version of the song on a separate cassette. I wanted the Titanic cassette for the background score tracks. To this day, 'Never an Absolution' is my favorite James Horner compositi...