March in music history - Enya, by Enya (1986)

Enya

by Enya

was released in March 1986.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list:

The Celts; Aldebaran; I Want Tomorrow; March Of The Celts; Deireadh An Tuath; The Sun In The Stream; To Go Beyond (l); Fairytale; Epona; Triad: St. Patrick/Cu Chulainn/Oisin; Portrait; Boadicea; Bard Dance; Dan Y Dwr; To Go Beyond (ll).

On this day in music history - The album Arctic Sunrise, by Kerani (2014)

Arctic Sunrise

by Kerani

was released on March 1, 2014.

Track list:

Arctic Sunrise; Ice Kingdom; Far Away from Home; Norway; Drifting Ice; Aurora Sky; Discovery; Spirit of the Last Wilderness.

On this day in music history - The album Altered States: Music for the Journey Within, by Uma Silbey (2016)

Altered States: Music for the Journey Within

by Uma Silbey

was released on March 1, 2016.

Track list:

Voices from the Deep; Morning Embrace; Mountain; Streaming; Cloudscapes; Levitation; Remembering; Moonscape; Tide Travel; Destination Infinity; Lightfield; Heartfelt.

On this day in music history - Story of Ghosts, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2018)

Story of Ghosts

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on March 1, 2018.

Track list:

Song For Dunnie; Story of Angels; Contemplating (Solo); Blue Dream (Solo); The Solo Tango; The White Light; Story of Ghosts; Twilight; Story of Insanity; Before The Light.

Steven Spielberg, on movies and stories:

 

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects ...
but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

- Steven Spielberg.

Recommended reading - Black Money

 

Black Money

by Ross Macdonald.
 
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768106
ISBN-13: 978-0679768104
 
Description:

“A Beautiful job … rich in plot and character…. The denouement is both surprising and shocking and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald’s extraordinarily high standards.” – The New York Time Book Review.

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

“It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught is how to write; he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe in some small but mannered way, how to live.” – Robert B. Parker.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Born on this day – Zero Mostel:

Zero Mostel

Actor

Comedian

Singer

Painter

February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977

Credits:

Watership Down (1978); The Electric Company (1972–1977); The Little Drummer Boy Book II (1976); The Front (1976); Mastermind (1976); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1975); Journey Into Fear (1975); Foreplay (1975); Rhinoceros (1974); Marco (1973); Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973); Saga of Sonora (1973); Old Faithful (1973); The Hot Rock (1972); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1970); The Angel Levine (1970); The Great Bank Robbery (1969); Great Catherine (1968); The White Bus / Ride of the Valkyrie (1967); Children of the Exodus (1967); The Producers (1967); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966); Play of the Week (1959–1961); The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959); Zero Mostel (1959); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Guy Who Came Back (1951); Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951); Sirocco (1951); The Enforcer (1951); Panic in the Streets (1950); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); Off the Record (1948); Du Barry Was a Lady (1943).