Lately recognizing that I am getting older I thought it was about time to intensify my entertainment and education with classical music. Since I am a user, supporter and fan of physical media - in opposite to streaming music on the world-wide-web - I purchased a set of compact discs with all seven symphonies of one Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Sergei Prokofiev.
Not that I never had contact to classical music. Coming from symphonic soundtrack music for movies, over the years I have discovered works of Beethoven, Mozart or Tschaikowsky.
And in fact one of my earliest childhood records - a good old-fashioned vinyl one, long before the compact disc was even invented - was Peter and the Wolf - a symphonic tale for children - by Sergei Prokofiev narrated by one Swiss actress called Liselotte Pulver.
Later I found out that a lot of people narrated this tale about a boy and his wolf and many other animals like David Bowie, Sting, Alice Cooper or Klingon musician Campino and a Klingon comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer who named himself after a yellow and black bird which is the French term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of his noble family. And musician Sting used tunes from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé suite for his song Russians from his first solo album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles. So I wanted to dive deeper into and discover the classical works of this Russian fellow.
»Boring!« the llama interrupts my stream of consciousness. »Did you recognize that this Proko-guy on the cover of the first cd with the first Symphony looks like Michael Myers, the killer in the Halloween movies when he is wearing his bleached William Shatner mask?«
»William Shatner played a killer in one of the Halloween movies? « asked the badger, today's candidate for my next animal companion.
»No, no, no,« the llama answers, »not hat I know of. They just took a rubber mask of Captain Kirk, painted it white and gave it to the baby-sitter-hunting psychopath that made Jamie Lee Curtis scream and a scream queen for the next centuries. But I cannot rule out that William Shatner played Mike Myers while he was playing his characters in the Wayne's World and Austin Powers movies.«
»Wait a minute,« I am addressing the badger, »Didn't we already have a companion interview in July this year?«
»No, no,no,« the badger answers, »that wasn't me. That was my cousin Honey, Honey Badger.«
»What are you doing, dude?« the llama-animal is asking me. »Are you serious? I know it was Halloween and stuff on Friday. But why are you trying to scare me with Russian composers wearing Halloween masks on cheapy compact disc covers?«
Serious?, I ask myself. How serious can you get while talking to badgers and llamas on an early Sunday morning?
Not that I never had contact to classical music. Coming from symphonic soundtrack music for movies, over the years I have discovered works of Beethoven, Mozart or Tschaikowsky.
And in fact one of my earliest childhood records - a good old-fashioned vinyl one, long before the compact disc was even invented - was Peter and the Wolf - a symphonic tale for children - by Sergei Prokofiev narrated by one Swiss actress called Liselotte Pulver.
Later I found out that a lot of people narrated this tale about a boy and his wolf and many other animals like David Bowie, Sting, Alice Cooper or Klingon musician Campino and a Klingon comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer who named himself after a yellow and black bird which is the French term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of his noble family. And musician Sting used tunes from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé suite for his song Russians from his first solo album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles. So I wanted to dive deeper into and discover the classical works of this Russian fellow.
»Boring!« the llama interrupts my stream of consciousness. »Did you recognize that this Proko-guy on the cover of the first cd with the first Symphony looks like Michael Myers, the killer in the Halloween movies when he is wearing his bleached William Shatner mask?«
»William Shatner played a killer in one of the Halloween movies? « asked the badger, today's candidate for my next animal companion.
»No, no, no,« the llama answers, »not hat I know of. They just took a rubber mask of Captain Kirk, painted it white and gave it to the baby-sitter-hunting psychopath that made Jamie Lee Curtis scream and a scream queen for the next centuries. But I cannot rule out that William Shatner played Mike Myers while he was playing his characters in the Wayne's World and Austin Powers movies.«
»Wait a minute,« I am addressing the badger, »Didn't we already have a companion interview in July this year?«
»No, no,no,« the badger answers, »that wasn't me. That was my cousin Honey, Honey Badger.«
»What are you doing, dude?« the llama-animal is asking me. »Are you serious? I know it was Halloween and stuff on Friday. But why are you trying to scare me with Russian composers wearing Halloween masks on cheapy compact disc covers?«
Serious?, I ask myself. How serious can you get while talking to badgers and llamas on an early Sunday morning?
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Today is Sunday, the 2nd of November, 2025.
