{"id":18070,"date":"2015-11-27T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=18070"},"modified":"2015-11-23T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:16:42","slug":"morning-music-my-favorite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/11\/27\/morning-music-my-favorite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: My Favorite Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"My<\/a>Okay, it’s almost over. Today, we will do “My Favorite Things” from the 1965 film The Sound of Music<\/em>. I liked the musical very much when I was young. I don’t care for it so much now. I’m not that fond of Christopher Plummer — except when he’s playing a Klingon. But mostly, there is just something offensively earnest about the whole thing.<\/p>\n

When I was younger, I always wondered about something. In the play, the new Nazi Youth Rolfe does not summon the Nazis — allowing the family to get away. In the film, he does, leading to a rather stupid car chase. I had wondered if this was an indication of changing ideas about human nature. But later I concluded that it was formal. In a play, you couldn’t have a chase. In a film, you can. Simple as that. I still prefer the non-chase, because I want to believe that people are basically good.<\/p>\n

Luckily for you all, I just remembered that John Coltrane did a great version of the song<\/a>. That’s piano by McCoy Tyner — another of my favorite things.<\/p>\n