If you follow my blog you’ll know I love a good flashmob. What you may not know is I also totally love musicals. Put the two together and you’ve got me =) This is a flash mob at a wedding singing “One Day More” from Les Miserable. From the information on YouTube… At Hannah and…
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Very Clever Flashmob
When the Rijksmuseum is reopened in 2013 after being closed for a decade, they decided to promote the opening, and the museum’s most famous artwork, by holding a very clever flashmob. At the time flashmobs were huge and I think they did a brilliant job with this (there are two other flash mobs I thought…
A to Z Challenge: Z (John Williams’ film scores)
*Read John Williams’ biography here Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanThis film, released in 2004, is the third in the Harry Potter series (following Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). The movie is based on the book of the same name by author JK Rowling and…
A to Z Challenge: Y (John Williams’ film scores)
*Read John Williams’ biography here You Are WelcomeJohn Williams was 22 years old when he scored a promotional travelogue You Are Welcome. This is significant because it is believed this is the first proper film scored by Williams. Williams was in the 596th Air Force Band at Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland when he…
A to Z Challenge: X (John Williams’ film scores)
*Read John Williams’ biography here E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialReleased in 1982 (another Steven Spielberg project) the movie stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Pat Welsh. The film concept comes from an imaginary friend Spielberg invented following his parents’ divorce in 1960. The movie tells the story of a boy who…