a blog by Peter Leonard
To celebrate finishing my big Busby Berkeley paper last quarter, I picked up this double album from the local Barnes & Noble. It's interesting to hear long orchestral pieces without seeing any accompanying dancing -- an odd way to pay tribute to Berkeley's choreography, to be sure, but if you've seen the movies you'll find yourself visualizing the sets and actors from 42nd Street and We're in the Money. (Beware the ancient RealAudio 3.0 codec Amazon has chosen to encode those samples in -- RealPlayer may need to download the codec, a process handled with varying degrees of grace in different versions of the software.)
