MUSIC FOR HOLY WEEK

This year for Melodies & Memories Passion Week features I decided to transmit soundtrack recordings. On Tuesday I brought Nicola Piovani’s moving score for the film ”The Son’s Room” to the studio. It was an idea I borrowed from Fabio Colagrande’s morning program that same day where he presented one of its remarkably sensitive and suggestive tracks. On Holy Wednesday I brought the Mark Isham-composed music for the original motion picture soundtrack to “Of Mice and Men”.
Maundy Thursday’s musical content was slightly modified in that it was not the actual movie score which we broadcast, but the Leonard Bernstein conducted, New York Philharmonic recording of the symphonic suite “On the Waterfront”. For Good Friday’s feature I switched gear entirely by bringing the emotionally charged live recordings of hymns from “Taizé”, and on Holy Saturday we took our selection from Ludovico Einaudi’s evocative 2009 “Nightbook”.
I may well have started the week on the wrong footing with “My Fair Lady” for Monday Musicals, which has everything apart from meditative content. But what this masterpiece of movie musicals lacks in depth, it makes up for in message: rich or poor, instructed or disadvantaged, we can all benefit from answering a call to self-improvement. Wishing you all a very happy Easter!