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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
What to do with Wodka!
For Christmas, a good friend gave me a bottle of cranberry vodka. This confused me, because my experiments with mixology have to date made very little use of vodka, which is not my favorite spirit, in all honesty. I’ve only … Continue reading
An ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
I could stretch all of this out, but instead: On January 21, I shall relaunch THE SONG OF FORGOTTEN STARS, by re-issuing the first three books in revised editions with new covers, and by releasing Book Four, THE SAVIOR WORLDS!!! So, … Continue reading
“Once more unto…unto the thing into which we go once more!”
In other exciting news*, after a really long time not producing any new fiction copy, I have at last returned to drafting. It’s time to get FORGOTTEN STARS V done. I decided some time ago to start drafting it on January … Continue reading
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2020: [sigh of not really relief, but not defeat either]
It’s time for my annual wrap-up quiz. Warning: I’m writing about 2020 here. Trigger warnings galore! And some political bluntness, for which I’ll say, if you disagree with me, well…I do not care. For a taste of how I’ve been … Continue reading
The Ninth: One Symphony to Rule Them All
I’ll have one more Beethoven-related post to wrap this all up, which will mainly be a linkage piece; this post will serve as my main Grand Finale, though. And where else to end with Beethoven’s juggernaut of a masterpiece, … Continue reading
Books Read in 2020
Well, one area for me in which this year did not drink deep from the Keg of Suck was in reading: I read a lot of great stuff. My goal each year is 52 books, averaging one a week. This year … Continue reading
Beethovens Choral Fantasia: or, What Happens When You’re An Immortal Composer Who Needs a Piece for Piano, Vocal Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra
Now here’s a very unusual work indeed: a single-movement piece, roughly 25 minutes long, that features orchestra, solo piano, vocal soloists, and a chorus. Why would Beethoven have written such an oddly structured piece? Most likely, I figured, he wrote … Continue reading
Close Encounters of the Beethoven Kind
I was fortunate in my music-making days to get to actually play Beethoven on three different occasions. The first came via my piano teacher in high school, a lovely old woman named Margaret Hooker. She lived alone in a nice-sized … Continue reading
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Beethoven: the Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos
In a typical classical music concert today, you might hear a short work–an overture, perhaps–followed by a concerto, then an intermission, then a symphony. Or the concerto might be the featured work after the intermission, especially if your soloist is … Continue reading
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Pics or it didn’t happen!
I haven’t done a grab-bag of recent photos from my adventures of late, so…here we go! These next few are in a special category, because they’re photos I took with my phone and then processed through a cool app called … Continue reading