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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Obviously I’ve known for years that Elvis Presley recorded a number of Christmas songs over the years, but I did not know that a bunch of his best-known ones spring from a single album called Elvis’s Christmas Album, and neither … Continue reading
Beethoven and Billy Joel (yes, really)
In the wonderful movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, Richard Dreyfuss plays Mr. Holland, a classically-trained composer who needs to make ends meet so he gets a job as a high school music teacher and band director. He figures this will be … Continue reading
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas
One of my favorite Christmas carols is “The Wexford Carol”, which has that pre-Western harmony thing going on that gives it an air of mysterious beauty. Here it is, performed by Allison Krauss, Yo Yo Ma, and others. Just wonderful!
Two Hundred Fifty
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. –Ludwig van Beethoven Two hundred fifty years ago today, Ludwig van Beethoven was likely born. We don’t know if this … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Because we are privileged to live alongside one of the very greatest of all Americans, a person who has generated more light for the world than most power plants…here is Dolly Parton.
Beethoven: Why?
On the eve of what is likely Beethoven’s two-hundred fiftieth birthday, one might ask, “Why do we still listen to him? Why is this music still potent? Why is it still relevant?” More tomorrow and for the rest of the … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
I feature this song every year: Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”, which to me perfectly captures a normal part of the emotional fabric of Christmas: the wistful looking-back as we get ready to add another year to the pile. … Continue reading
Beethoven and “Wellington’s Victory”: when a genius mails it in
There’s something about the work that results from a genius deciding to just…go on autopilot for a bit. Beethoven found himself in 1813 being requested by a friend to write a piece of music for an automated music device, basically … Continue reading
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas
I just heard this a few minutes ago on Sirius XM and thought, “Well, there’s today’s selection!” I had, to my current recollection, never heard this before. It’s called “Joys Seven”, and our performers are the Ensemble Corund. It is … Continue reading
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos, part 1: Concertos 1 and 2
Ahhh, the numbering of the works of the classical masters! If you’re old enough, you may well remember owning an LP of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), but it would have been labeled as his Symphony No. … Continue reading