Stuey's News: Off the Scale to Suspend at 100, Roms Feature Coming and More...

Hello everyone!

Thank you for your kind patience and support whilst I have worked through the issues that have been pressing against me for quite some time now. I am now in a far better place than I have been so will be looking to take full advantage of this by continuing to make the changes I have mentioned already.

First up, I am saddened to announce that come edition 100, I will no longer be continuing my "Off the Scale" classical music feature.

Thank you for sticking with it because it has been an absolute blast trawling through the archives for classical music that I think you will enjoy. It's just that I think 100 episodes is a very reasonable target to achieve and want to move on.

This whole series has caused me to grow my writer's voice even more by quite some measure since it's inception, but I can no longer sustain the commitment if I want to push through the changes I am planning on making.

Follow me to find out some more things that are coming...

Off the Scale #68 - Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Welcome to the sixty eighth edition of Off the Scale where this week we will be taking another look at Tchaikovsky, this time we will be focusing on part of the Swan Lake ballet.

This particular piece has always been a favourite of mine, though quite how many CD's my "favourites" would end up taking up is as much a mystery to me as it is to you. It just goes to show that you can like something yet to be always willing to expand your boundaries, allows you to open your mind that little bit more to broaden your tastes...

Off the Scale #67 Scheherezade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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This week it's the turn of a composer I don't feature anywhere near enough, yet this particular piece is one I have heard quite a lot over the last year.

I am, of course, referring to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his take on One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales...

RV004: Captain Marvel - A Marvel-lous Film!

 

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I've just finished watching Captain Marvel not so long ago and wanted to rush out a review before I either forget or get sidetracked with other project work I'm currently doing.

This film is the latest outing in the closing stages of Marvel's third phase of movies and is designed, I believe, to lay the final groundwork before we are brought to Avengers: Endgame in the summer which is a cinematic event that will no doubt upset as many comic book fans as it pleases.

I, personally. could care less about the whole idea of a "cinematic universe" because I am just not interested in investing more of my time into following stories from one film to the next with a view to just understand the basic plot. If you cannot sell me on the plot from the get-go, I don't really care...

Off the Scale #66 - Spring from 'The Four Seasons' by Antonio Vivaldi

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It would be remiss of me not to do this, especially as we have been seeing some glorious weather here in Oldham this week. Admittedly, I'm actually writing this a couple of weeks ahead of schedule, so it might have changed by the time this goes live.

For today, I'm going to be celebrating Spring from Antonio Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'...

Off the Scale #65 - The Prince of Denmark's March by Jeremiah Clarke

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This week I want to celebrate a piece that has been quite impactful on me of late and I could never remember what it was called despite hearing it on numerous occasions on Classic FM.

I have just made special effort to get its name, this time around, so that I could share it with you in the hopes that it helps someone else out there in the interwebby land to either study better, play harder, or just relax that little bit more.

I am of course referring to the 17th Century composer Jeremiah Clarke...