Monthly Archives: December 2015

Symphony Saturday

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Brahms. Johannes Brahms is one of the giant figures of late 19th-century music, and his symphonies are of sufficient import that they tend to fall into the “No classical music collection is complete without them” category. I personally consider them … Continue reading →

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

I’ve never been able to decide if I like “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, or if I find it really irritating. This version’s pretty fun, if you happen to have been a brass player at some point in your life. … Continue reading →

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Christmas isn’t complete without Tchaikovksy.

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Something for Thursday

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Cheese. Pure, unadulterated, joy-filled cheese. Here are The Three Tenors.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Here’s a band I love, even though for some reason I haven’t listened to them in a bizarrely long time: Blackmore’s Night, performing “Good King Wenceslas”!

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been killed? (For me, it was the next morning. I can’t remember if I heard it first on a Good Morning America kind of show or not, but I remember … Continue reading →

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Time for a repeat of a song I use every year at some point: Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”, that achingly beautiful song that’s barely a Christmas song but yet perfectly captures that certain wistful part of the season, … Continue reading →

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Question about Ads

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

Is anyone experiencing a problem with ads playing when I embed YouTube videos? Somehow my Google account has become eligible for “YouTube Red”, which means (among other things) that I never have to watch ads when I’m viewing YouTube while … Continue reading →

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Your First Draft is NOT Crap!!!

Posted on December 9, 2015 by ksedinger

There seems to be a common school of thought among writers, at least so far as I’ve seen, that holds that your first draft of anything – story, novel, poem, whatever – is always bad. But I gotta be honest here, … Continue reading →

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Kelly Sedinger

I used to hate early music, but I find my appreciation for it growing slowly. Here is the Boston Camerata with “Adeste Fidelis”.

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