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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Something for Thursday
Today is Willie Nelson’s birthday. He is 88 years old. Sheila O’Malley has more on him, but suffice here to say that he’s one of the great geniuses of American art in the last century. I truly believe this. His … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
One thing I’ve always believed about writing is that if an idea doesn’t work out in one piece, that’s no reason to put it aside forever. I’ve reused a lot of my own ideas over the years, a practice I … Continue reading
Images from an April
April is a strange month around these parts. I’ve maintained for years that of Buffalo-Niagara’s four seasons, spring is the worst. Summers can be too hot and humid, but are mild compared to the South or the Eastern Seaboard; our … Continue reading
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A Year of Masking
It’s been a little over a year since Governor Cuomo issued an executive order requiring people to wear masks when in public. I remember the week or two leading up to that order, as it was pretty clear that masks … Continue reading
Mr. Mannion
Blogger Lance Mannion, whose real-life name was David Reilly, has died suddenly. I’ve been reading Lance for…I honestly don’t know. At least seventeen years, I would guess. He was a deeply literate man, with wide interests and voracious reading that … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Songwriter Jim Steinman, one of the biggest contributors to the “bigger than life” aura of a lot of rock music of the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and beyond, has died. He was 73. Steinman’s songs were the stuff of excess: in … Continue reading
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Figure out a new funny.
For years, Ken Levine has done a “summation” post of the annual Oscar telecast, full of pithy humor. I don’t normally do much more than skim these over, because I don’t watch the Oscars and therefore I never have the … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s April 20! Which means that it’s 4/20, and for a sequence of strange reasons involving some stuff some stoners did years ago, “420” is now a cannabis reference. This stuff is weird, really. I’ve nicked the following from Wikipedia: … Continue reading
Composer Focus: Jean Sibelius (part three)
Written when was 30, and thus nearing the halfway mark of his productive career, Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela is one movement from his Lemminkainen Suite, a collection of four tone poems that tell the story of one of the heroes … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday
Robert Schumann’s Traumerai is one of classical music’s best-known melodies. The original work is for solo piano, and many piano students learn it (though, to my recollection, this one never came to me during my years of piano instruction). There’s … Continue reading