Monthly Archives: June 2025

Thank you, Mr. Wilson

Posted on June 11, 2025 by ksedinger
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Tuesday Tones

Posted on June 10, 2025 by ksedinger

Continuing my exploration of queerness in music for this Pride Month, I turn to composer Wendy Carlos, a great transgender artist who is a notable late-20th century pioneer in electronic music. Carlos was born in 1939 as Walter Carlos, but … Continue reading →

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The Queries of the Sunday Past

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ksedinger

Here are questions from this week’s Sunday Stealing! Which are a day late. Oh well. 1. What’s your life’s motto? Life’s too short to not wear what you want. (I just made that up, to be honest.) 2. Where were … Continue reading →

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A musical offering….

Posted on June 7, 2025 by ksedinger

Any accounting of the greatest composers of the Baroque era would include, as a short list, the names of J.S. Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, and George Frideric Handel. We’re talking about Handel briefly today, partly because of his immense … Continue reading →

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Exposure

Posted on June 6, 2025 by ksedinger

Heavens, what a week it was! Bad? No, not at all. But very, very busy. Work gave me a quite proper arse-kicking this week, oh yes it did. I’ll recover in days to come, but for now, here’s a shot … Continue reading →

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My city

Posted on June 2, 2025 by ksedinger

I haven’t edited this photo yet, seeing as how I jut took it yesterday morning, and I’m a couple weeks behind on my photo edits. But I wanted to share this one now because I really love this vantage point. … Continue reading →

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Pride Month: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Posted on June 1, 2025 by ksedinger

Today begins Pride Month, so let’s listen to some Tchaikovsky. It is not actually conclusively known if Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was gay or not, but most biographers and historians have concluded, from the nature and the durations of the various … Continue reading →

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