Adam Spark

GHTV is an educational resource for founders and entrepreneurs that are trying to grow a startup. Building a product is the easy part, getting people to care and pay attention is not. We build startups too, and we know how difficult growth really is. Our apps have been written about in The Next Web, Read Write Web, Mashable, and more, but growing, retaining, engaging, and monetizing our user base was still an uphill battle. Growth is the reason startups fail. Growth is what GHTV is all about.

Christian Lindberg and his Swedish Wind Ensemble here perform a colourful programme of original works and arrangements. The British composer Adam Gorb (b. 1958) opens the disc with his suite of Yiddish Dances inspired by klezmer, the folk music of the Eastern European Jews. The dance theme reappears in An American in Paris and is followed by the programmatic work Homenaje a Sorolla by the Spanish composer Bernardo Ferrero.

Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders (Adam West and Burt Ward) are called in as a last resort when the criminal masterminds of the millennium team up to conquer Gotham City by turning the U.N. Security Council into dehydrated dust; among the villains are the Joker (Cesar Romero), Catwoman (Lee Meriwether), the Riddler (Frank Gorshin), and the Penguin (Burgess Meredith). The entire cast is excellent, particularly West and Ward, who distinguish themselves among a standout list with hilariously straight-faced performances. The film includes some truly memorable scenes, highlighted by a particularly tenacious shark with a vertical leap that would put Spud Webb to shame and a bomb on the waterfront with no place to explode (nuns, infants and lovebirds beware!).