On this day in music history - Elements, by Ludovico Einaudi (2015):

Elements

Album by Ludovico Einaudi,

released October 16, 2015.

Track list:

Drop; Four Dimensions; Elements; Whirling Winds / Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Ludovico Einaudi; Twice; ABC; Numbers; Mountain; Logos; Song For Gavin; Drop Variation; Elements Variation; Twice Variation.

On this day in movie history - S is for Stanley: 30 Years Behind the Wheel with Stanley Kubrick (2015):

S is for Stanley:
30 Years Behind the Wheel with Stanley Kubrick

documentary directed by Alex Infascelli,

written by Alex Infascelli, Vincenzo Scuccimarra and Filippo Ulivieri,

based on the autobiography Stanley Kubrick and Me by Emilio D'Alessandro,

was released at Fantastic Fest in the United States on September 25, 2016.

Music by John Cummings.

Cast:

Emilio D'Alessandro, Alex Infascelli, Roberto Pedicini, Clive Riche, Janette Woolmore.

On this day in movie history - The Martian (2015):

The Martian

directed by Ridley Scott,

written by Drew Goddard,

based on the novel by Andy Weir,

was released at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 11, 2015.
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Cast:

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, Nick Mohammed, Shu Chen, Eddy Ko, Enzo Cilenti, Jonathan Aris, Gruffudd Glyn, Geoffrey Thomas, Yang Haiwen, Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan, Brian Caspe, Matt Devere, Mike Kelly, Szonja Oroszlán, Greg De Cuir, Mark O'Neal, Peter Linka, Declan Hannigan, Peter Schueller, Waleska Latorre, Frederik Pleitgen, Nikolett Barabas, Karen Gagnon, Lili Bordán, Charlie Gardner, Nóra Hörich, Kamilla Fátyol, Yang Liu, Xue Xuxing, Richard Rifkin, Nick Wittman, Balázs Medveczky, Ben O'Brien, Scott Alexander Young, Jason Ryan, James Dougherty, Irén Bordán, Dilyana Bouklieva, Dora Endre, Björn Freiberg, James Fred Harkins Jr., Minouche Kaftel, Gayathri Kasupathipillai, Viktor Mitev, Arnold Montey, Tom Nguyen, Tamás Sebe, Sam Spruell, Norbert Szekeres, Dominika Szosznyák, Zalán Takács, Lara Ilona Thompson, Balázs Veres, Henry Winkler.

Recommended reading – Beeswax Alchemy (2015):

Beeswax Alchemy

How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive

By Petra Ahnert.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1592539793

ISBN-13: 978-1592539796

Published 2015.

Description:

“This is the book I’ve been waiting thirty years for. Excellent instructions. Bountiful information. Beautifully done.”

– Kim Flottum, beekeeper; author of The Backyard Beekeeper, Better Beekeeping, and The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook; and editor of Bee Culture magazine.

Create natural beeswax products for health and home.

Beeswax is truly the miracle of the beehive. Although honeybees use it to build their hives and protect their young, you can use it to make everything from candles to lip balm to decorative fabric.

Regardless of whether you are a veteran beekeeper or someone who just likes the way beeswax looks and smells, you’ll learn from apiarist and entrepreneur Petra Ahnert, who will teach you how to transform this miraculous material into the beautiful, useful, and unexpected.

Inside you’ll find:

An introduction to beeswax’s form and functions.

Tips and techniques for transforming beeswax into useful products for home and health.

Detailed recipes to get you started crafting your own soaps, balms, salves, and more.

On this day in music history - Sacred Alliance, by Anima (2015):

Sacred Alliance

Album by Anima,
released July 9, 2015.

Track list:

Great Mother’s Dominion; Surrender; Sewa; Sacred Lands; Offering; Camino De Pedro; Gonawindua; Kogi Transmission; Ancestral Fathers of the Stars.

On this day in music history - Flute Flight, by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland (2015):

Flute Flight

Album by Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland,
released June 30, 2015.

Track list:

Looking Through; Seasons of the Heart; Echo of Desire; Always a Dream; Illumination; From Afar; Luna’s Dance; Sea of Stars; The Way; Reflection; Planetary Drift; Nature’s Spirit; Into the Light.

On this day in music history - Dark Before Dawn, by Breaking Benjamin (2015):

Dark Before Dawn

Album by Breaking Benjamin,
released June 23, 2015.

Track list:

Dark; Failure; Angels Fall; Breaking the Silence; Hollow; Close to Heaven; Bury Me Alive; Never Again; The Great Divide; Ashes of Eden; Defeated; Dawn.

On this day in music history - Spirit of the Ancients: Crystal Bowl Sound Healing, by Tryshe Dhevney (2015):

Spirit of the Ancients: Crystal Bowl Sound Healing

Album by Tryshe Dhevney,
released May 26, 2015.

Track list:

Time Outside Of Time; Breaking Light; A Temple Deep Inside; Emergence; You Have Wings; Walking Turtle Blessing.

On this day in movie history - Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015):

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

a documentary directed and written by Daniel Raim,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 23, 2015.
Music by David Lebolt.

Cast:

Lillian Michelson, Harold Michelson, Bill Krohn, Stuart Cornfeld, Mel Brooks, Danny DeVito, Jim Bissell, Norman Newberry, Rick Carter, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Gabriel Hardman, Marc Wanamaker, Thomas A. Walsh, Alan Michelson, Anahid Nazarian, Tom Waits, Richard Sylbert, Patrick Mate, Tish Hicks, Will Vought, Dennis Michelson.

On this day in movie history - The Little Prince (2015):

The Little Prince

directed by Mark Osborne,

written by Irena Brignull and Bob Persichetti,

based on the novel Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 22, 2015.
Music by Richard Harvey and Hans Zimmer.

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine De Saint–Exupéry.

Cast:

Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Riley Osborne, James Franco, Bud Cort, Benicio Del Toro, Ricky Gervais, Albert Brooks, Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Jeffy Branion, Jacquie Barnbrook, Marcel Bridges, André Dussollier, Florence Foresti, Vincent Cassel, Guillaume Gallienne, Laurent Lafitte, Vincent Lindon, Guillaume Canet, Pascal Légitimus, Achille Orsoni, Clara Poincaré, Andrea Santamaría, Bernard Tiphaine, Veronica J. Valentini.

On this day in music history - Equilibrium, by Kerani (2015):

Equilibrium

Album by Kerani,

released May 18, 2015.

Track list:

Equilibrium; Fragrant Mountain; Anchoress; Bouddica, Heart on Fire; Hypatia’s Universe; O, Aeterne Deus; Lady’s Grace; Avane; The Wyse Wytch.

On this day in movie history - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015):

Mad Max: Fury Road

directed by George Miller,

written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris,

was released in the United States on May 7, 2015.
Music by Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL.

Cast:

Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton, John Howard, Richard Carter, Iota, Angus Sampson, Jennifer Hagan, Megan Gale, Melissa Jaffer, Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellermann, Christina Koch, Jon Iles, Quentin Kenihan, Coco Jack Gillies, Chris Patton, Stephen Dunlevy, Richard Norton, John Walton, Ben Smith-Petersen, Russ McCarroll, Judd Wild, Elizabeth Cunico, Greg van Borssum, Robert Jones, Sebastian Dickins, Darren Andrew Mitchell, Crusoe Kurddal, Shyan Tonga, Cass Cumerford, Albert Lee, Riley Paton, Ripley Voeten, Macyn Van Borssum, Hunter Stratton Boland, Nathan Jenkins, Fletcher Gill, Whiley Toll, Ferdinand Hengombe, Gadaffi Davsab, Noddy Alfred, Jackson Hengombe, Christian Fane, Callum Gallagher, Abel Hofflin, Lee Perry, Debra Ades, Toby Ayers, Rhavin Banda, Karl Heinz Barr, Alison Benstead, Craig Bourke, Nerida Bronwen, Will C., Hélène Cardona, Jeremy Costello, Sandi Finlay, Gareth Hamilton-Foster, Dawn Hogan, Georgia Jarrett, Hiroshi Kasuga, Jack Kelly, Ryan Madden, Robert Alexander Maxwell McCann, Shuhei Ogawa, Benjamin W Sullivan, Vanessa Summerfield, Yassica Switakowski, Leanne Michelle Watson.

On this day in music history - Signature – Solo, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015):

Signature – Solo

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 30, 2015.

Track list:

Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible (Solo Piano); Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Signature; Once Upon Impossible (Duet); From the Mist; Little Star.

On this day in music history - Renée Fleming Sings Rosmonda D’Inghilterra, by Renée Fleming (2015):

Renée Fleming Sings Rosmonda D’Inghilterra

Album by Renée Fleming,

was released on April 29, 2015.

Track list:

Volgon re lune...ahi lassa!; Perché non ho del vento; Torna, torna or caro oggetto; Deh! Ti arresta!; Vieni meco, ed un ritiro; E desso! E il perfido; E dessa: alfin la perfida; Tace ognun! nessun risponde?; Primiero io giungo; Si, son io; Giurato il sacrifizio; Giurasti un dì...rammentalo; Concedo un breve istante; Ma il tempo vola; Io fuggir; Senza pace, senza speme.

On this day in music history - Live Texas Trio, by Carolyn Wonderland (2015):

Live Texas Trio

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released April 21, 2015.

Track list:

Palace of the King (Live); At the Crossroads (Live); Come Together (Live); Only God Knows When (Live); Samson and Delilah (Live); Money in the Game (Live); Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live); Walk on (Live); Heart (Live); Cumbia Raza (Live); When I Go Away (Live); Let's Go Get Stoned (Live).

Recommended reading - These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three, by Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn (2015):

These Are the Voyages - TOS: Season Three

By Marc Cushman & Susan Osborn.

Foreword by David Gerrold.

These Are The Voyages series.

Published by Jacobs Brown Press.

Published 2015.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0989238180

ISBN-13: 978-0989238182

Description:

Marc Cushman's biography of Star Trek the original series (TOS) takes you back in time for the final season of this iconic television show, to the production offices, the writers' room, onto the soundstages, and in front of your TV sets for what many thought would be Star Trek's final voyage. Included are hundreds of memos between Roddenberry, the producers and staff, production schedules, budgets, fan letters, behind-the-scene images, and the TV ratings. You'll find out the real reason Star Trek was cancelled. So buckle your seat belts, this final trek gets really bumpy.

On this day in television history - Justified (2015):

Justified

Season 6. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: The Promise.

Released April 14, 2015.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell, Keith Schreier.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Sam Elliott, Kaitlyn Dever, David Koechner, Jonathan Tucker, Jack Conley, Jason Gedrick, Jeffrey Pierce, Robert Dolan, Chad Todhunter, Natalie Zea, Ryder Cohen, Mel Fair, Christopher Grove, Eden Henderson, Otto Krause, Robert Neary, Russell Bertolino, Abby Miller, Mark Parrish, Nathan Szczotka, Mykelti Williamson.

On this day in music history - Live at the Q, by Fiona Joy Hawkins and The Blue Dream Ensemble (2015):

Live at the Q

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins and The Blue Dream Ensemble,

released April 10, 2015.

Track list:

View from My Studio (Live); Freedom (Live); Feeling Sunshine (Live); From the Outside (Live); Sapphire Interlude (Live); Standing Up (Live); Cerulean Interlude (Live); Blue Dream (Live); Moving On (Live); Through Cloud (Live); Love in Winter (Live); Improvisation (Live); 600 Years (Live); Flight of the Albatross (Live); The Void (Live).

On this day in television history - Justified (2015):

Justified

Season 6. Episode 12.
Episode entitled: Collateral.
Released April 7, 2015.
Directed by Michael Pressman.
Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano, VJ Boyd, Keith Schreier.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Mary Steenburgen, Patton Oswalt, Shea Whigham, Kaitlyn Dever, Jeff Fahey, Rick Gomez, Jeffrey Pierce, Jonathan Tucker, Audrey Wasilewski, Riley Bodenstab, Ryan Dorsey, Tom Proctor, Sam Elliott, Mel Fair, Mark Patrick Gleason, Otto Krause, Robert Neary, Russell Bertolino.

On this day in music history - Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015):

Ice - Piano Slightly Chilled

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 5, 2015.

Track list:

Iced Rain; Cloud Chill; Frosted View; Antarctic Wings; Love in the Refrigerator; Winter Cold; Frozen Rose; White View; Snow Bird; Crystalized Love.