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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Poetical Excursions, National Poetry Month 2020: Thomas Nashe
National Poetry Month is upon us. At last–at long, long, long last–it is finally April. This March was…something, wasn’t it? In fact, there’s a joke going around online; I’ve seen a number of variations on the theme and I’ve no … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s well known that Beethoven write only a single opera, Fidelio. A bit less well known is that Beethoven also wrote a single ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. In Beethoven’s time, ballet was seen mainly as a dance art, and … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday: Thanks, Kenny
Kenny Rogers died this past weekend. He had a long and productive life of music-making, and I won’t try to offer a major retrospective here. I will note that Rogers was just…always there, wasn’t he? And he was always there … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Not so much a tone poem, but rather a concerto with tone poem-like qualities…and a concerto that is a multi-movement work and a collaboration between multiple composers. Whew! It’s the Yellow River Piano Concerto, arranged into a concerto from themes … Continue reading
Beethoven: Two early works
As I noted a while back (before The Virus took hold of our collective imaginations), I’m spending a lot of 2020 digging into the world of Ludwig van Beethoven. I’m currently reading a “life and works” book about him, and … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here’s a bit of film music, by the underheard (at least by me) composer Basil Poledouris. This, from the movie The Hunt for Red October, is “The Hymn To Red October”. This cue opens the film as we get our … Continue reading
Checking In….
Well, on the day the world “went viral” in the worst way possible, my hard drive died, remember? So into Best Buy and the Geek Squad the thing went. Now the computer is home and has a spiffy new solid-state … Continue reading
Nothing for Thursday….
In the “When it rains, it pours!” department, my poor laptop has suffered the dreaded “Hard Drive Not Found” ailment. It’s going to the shop later today, but for now all I got is my phone, and as much as … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Carl Maria von Weber is one of those composers who is better known to historians of music than to actual listeners of it, which always seems to me a pity. His work represents a crucial step in the development of … Continue reading