Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor

 Beethoven wrote five piano concertos, and only one of these is in a minor key. I don’t want to reduce these things to the easily-refuted notion that “major key equals happy music, minor key equals sad music”, but there does … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 It’s here! I hope that all of your Christmases are merry and bright, even in a year as grating and dark as this has been.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 On the Eve, here are a few favorite entire albums of mine!

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On Jeff Smith, problematic people, food, and memory

   Back when I was in college, I decided that I needed to start learning to cook. One of the cornerstones of that effort was to buy all the cookbooks by Jeff Smith, also known by his PBS brand name … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 The Polar Express is rather a polarizing movie, mostly because of the style of animation Robert Zemeckis used in making it. The landscapes and a whole lot of the film’s compositions are frankly gorgeous, and the story is (for me, anyway) … Continue reading

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How he sounded back then….

Beethoven’s Symphony No 7 in A Major, op. 92, isn’t just one of Beethoven’s personal greatest works. It’s one of the greatest works of music ever composed, and its stature is such that it even rises beyond the history of … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 Here’s an album I grew up with…or maybe it wasn’t quite this album, but it was certainly this guy singing. I most definitely remember this version of “We Three Kings”, but I don’t know if this is actually the original record … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 Do you have any musical items on your lifelong wish list? Something you’d be sad if you reached the end of your days and never got to hear? I do! I’d love to attend a performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 I had a music teacher in third and fourth grade, when I was going to an elementary school in Hillsboro, OR, who at one point taught us a song from an opera based on the old fairy tale of “Hansel … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

 And now we’re into the last seven days before Christmas. As tends to be my practice, the selections will get longer as we get close to Christmas, because we could all use more music! This is an entire album by … Continue reading

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