Monthly Archives: October 2017

Of NaNoWriMo, and other delights

Goodness, I’ve really let this site go fallow, haven’t I? Over three months of radio silence here. That’s not because of any bad developments or anything like that; just that I’ve been plugging along with writing and not really saying … Continue reading

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Something for Halloween!!!

A few items! Some scary, some…not so much.

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Without context

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Bad Joke Friday

A classical music joke: Was Mozart’s posse called… …his Wolfgang?

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Something for Thursday

Wow, Jerry Goldsmith really did score a lot of bad movies, including The Haunting. Nevertheless, his music is always worth a listen. Here’s the final scary music selection of the month!

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Antonin Dvorak wrote this work, The Noon Witch, after his return to Europe from the United States. It is a musical telling of a horrible story: A mother warns her son that if he does not behave she will summon … Continue reading

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Symphony Saturday

The American composers of the Romantic era are an interesting bunch, because they exist in a kind of musical purgatory. Their music is not heard much, mainly because it’s all pretty firmly ensconced in the European symphonic tradition, and thus … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

From a newspaper in 1859. I’m so glad that bad humor is timeless!

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Something for Thursday

Continuing with scary music! Or music for scary movies. Or…you get the idea. Here is a suite from Wojcech Kilar’s wonderful score to the rather uneven film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While the film is uneven, the score is a classic … Continue reading

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When things collapse….

This past weekend was…an adventure. The groundwork started the previous weekend, when a large puddle formed at the corner of our street and the street that leads to it. It had rained a bit that weekend, so I didn’t think … Continue reading

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