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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Tone Poem Tuesday
A new composer to me! And thus, hopefully, to you. One of my favorite eras of “national” classical music is the English music of the 20th century, starting with Holst and Vaughan Williams and continuing on to Britten, William Walton, … Continue reading
2024, through the lens
If you read my 2024 wrap-up post–which if you didn’t, why not, and hey, it’s right here, go read it and come back!–you noted that I decided to defer any photography in that post in favor of a separate one, … Continue reading
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The “Greatest” Comeback? (a repost)
(Every year now, social media around the 716 lights up on the anniversary of the Bills-Oilers wildcard playoff game in January 1993, almost always simply called “The Comeback Game”. I wrote these thoughts a couple years ago when that record … Continue reading
An observation, for no particular reason
It shouldn’t be as easy as it is to really damage the bejeezus out of one’s side-view mirror. Moving on….
From the Burchfield Penney
Across the street from the Buffalo AKG Museum stands the Burchfield Penney Art Center. This is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles Burchfield and the WNY art community in general. We finally visited this lovely museum for the … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
This feature was hibernating through December, what with the Daily Dose of Christmas, but we’re back now! We’ll start with observing the bicentennial of German composer Anton Bruckner, who was born in 1824. So yeah, we missed it. Oops. I … Continue reading
“Returning feet and voices at the door”
A poem by JRR Tolkien. This appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, recited by Bilbo just after he has given Frodo his old sword and his old shirt of mithril. Remember that when Bilbo left The Shire, early in the book, … Continue reading