Musicals – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Sat, 16 Sep 2023 17:32:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png Musicals – Think Bensonium https://bensonium.com 32 32 Day 143: The Battle, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Rick Wakeman https://bensonium.com/song/day-143-the-battle-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-rick-wakeman/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-143-the-battle-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-rick-wakeman/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:50:34 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1347 Another good Youtube find. This album came out before War of the Worlds (see yesteday’s post) and I guess is now long forgotten. Yet the journey to the centre of the earth musical production is certainly well worth listening to although admittedly very 70s. Originally I had a live performance of this masterpiece but alas it got taken down by Youtube. This version I think is from Rik Wakeman’s official Youtube channel so hopefully it won’t get taken down in the future.

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/day-143-the-battle-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-rick-wakeman/feed/ 0 Day 142: The Eve of War, War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne https://bensonium.com/song/day-142-the-eve-of-war-war-of-the-worlds-jeff-wayne/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-142-the-eve-of-war-war-of-the-worlds-jeff-wayne/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:43:22 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1344 Now this is a cool find on Youtube. The “Eve of War” from “War of the Worlds” being performed live. Another incredible piece of music. Hmm, I don’t think those women are playing Stradivarius violins however given these babies have no bodies (the violins I mean not the women).

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/day-142-the-eve-of-war-war-of-the-worlds-jeff-wayne/feed/ 0 Day 105: The cowman and the farmer should be friends, Oklahoma https://bensonium.com/song/day-105-the-cowman-and-the-farmer-should-be-friends-oklahoma/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-105-the-cowman-and-the-farmer-should-be-friends-oklahoma/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:28:31 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1205 OK so why have I included this song?? Well my late Dad had this song in one of his amateur plays and I remember him practising this song over and over again in our house. Now that he is no longer with us, whenever I hear it I do remember a very clear image of my Dad in our front room dancing around while trying to remember the words to this song.

Having said all that, the musical really is awful and this song is particularly bad in my view. Needless to say, I have spared you all from including it in the main Covid Island Playlists

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]]> https://bensonium.com/song/day-104-the-phantom-of-the-opera/feed/ 0 Day 103: One night in Bangkok, Chess https://bensonium.com/song/day-103-one-night-in-bangkok-chess/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-103-one-night-in-bangkok-chess/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:20:30 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1201 Over the years I have had a love/hate relationship with chess. A game I would love to be good at but alas stuck at a rating of about 1200. Great musical though.

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/day-103-one-night-in-bangkok-chess/feed/ 0 Day 102: One day more, Les Misérables https://bensonium.com/song/day-102/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-102/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:06:35 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1190 I fell in love with this musical in my twenties when I first saw a performance of it out doors in Sydney. It even stimulated me to read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables which is a very loooong book and is much darker than even the musical.

]]> https://bensonium.com/song/day-102/feed/ 0 Day 101: Gethsemane, Jesus Christ Superstar https://bensonium.com/song/day-101-gethsemane-jesus-christ-superstar/ https://bensonium.com/song/day-101-gethsemane-jesus-christ-superstar/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:05:33 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?p=1188 This week the theme is going to be musicals. The first musical I fell in love with was Jesus Christ Superstar. As I have alluded to elsewhere, it was through this musical that I was first drawn to Christ even though most Christians would recognise that the musical portrayal of Jesus is not really Biblical because it strips Christ of his divinity and puts too much tension into his humanity in order to develop the musical drama.

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