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Previously
- “Dick, sometimes I understand why they hate you.” Nixon, 30 years gone April 22, 2024
- Sunday Stealing April 21, 2024
- Scritches April 20, 2024
- At the Gardens April 19, 2024
- Something for Thursday April 18, 2024
- New video: My photographic journey, thus far April 17, 2024
- Tone Poem Tuesday April 16, 2024
- Edgar Guest on Taxation: a poem April 15, 2024
- “I’ll take ‘KINDS OF RAMAS’ for $1000, Ken” April 14, 2024
- Checking in! And here are some tabs! April 13, 2024
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Tone Poem Tuesday
I found this piece quite randomly. The other day I wanted to listen to the famed Adagio from Aram Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus, and while doing a quick YouTube look-up I happened upon the same composer’s Symphony No. 3, which is subtitled … Continue reading
BOTD: Fanny Mendelssohn
(BOTD: Born On This Date. An idea I’m brazenly and openly stealing from Sheila O’Malley, who is the master of these kinds of posts.) Today is the birthdate of Fanny Mendelssohn. She was a pianist and composer, but her own … Continue reading
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From the Books: Why We Swim
Sometimes people cite the lack of browsing as a reason why it sucks that the independent bookstore has fallen on hard times in these, the Days of Amazon and other online retailers. And that’s true: one of the great joys … Continue reading
Farewell, Paddy Moloney
Paddy Moloney, the great front-man for the Celtic band The Chieftains, has died. He was 83. In my musical life, Paddy Moloney ranks very high. Very high. When I list musical figures who shaped my world and the way it … Continue reading
Recent Adventures in Overalls Nation!!!
No doubt all of you* have been asking, “Look, dude, all this music writing and book stuff and all is great, but what’s new with your bib overalls collection?!” And I am always one to give the public what it … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
The fifth episode of the great Carl Sagan show Cosmos is titled “Blues for a Red Planet”. The episode focuses on Mars: a history of the chase for life on Mars, the clash between the fictional Mars (and the one fervently … Continue reading
Vacation! (part the second)
More photos from a two-day trip! Huzzah! When last we checked in, The Wife and I had just finished up a visit to a Cayuga Lake winery. Next up was a stop that we make every single year, without fail: … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Some nifty stuff in the pipeline–I’m not going to keep ignoring Richard Strauss, now that I’ve opened him up on this series–but for now, a favorite potboiler by Tchaikovsky, a man who certainly knew how to compose the kinds of … Continue reading
Vacation! (part the first)
The Wife and I made our annual trek to Ithaca and the Finger Lakes this weekend. Our trip was timed a bit oddly and was truncated by a day, because of Reasons; usually we stay two nights in a hotel … Continue reading