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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Tone Poem Tuesday
After the month of dark and grim and scary and brooding music, let’s return to something a bit lighter, shall we? This duofold selection is one of the most beloved opera extracts of all time; in fact, this selection is … Continue reading
Bad Joke Friday
A curious new establishment sprang up on the summit of Mount Olympus overnight. Where once the Gods would sit, there was now a fast-casual bakery-cafe featuring salads, sandwiches, bagels, and soup in bread bowls, staffed entirely by satyrs playing reed … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Halloween edition!)
Yes, it’s Halloween today! Oooooooh! Anyway, I wrote an article for The Geekiverse the other day summing up a selection of eerie, scary, and spooky classical and film music selections, some of which have previously run on this blog; go … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
(via) OK, we’re gonna stretch the idea of the tone poem to its breaking point here: it’s an entire scene from an opera! Specifically, the wonderful opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber. This opera is often cited as … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Time for a departure for this series: instead of an orchestral work, a solo piano work! This is the Piano Sonata No. 9 by Alexander Scriabin, a single-movement work that is highly unsettling and even delirious as it moves through … Continue reading
Recent Adventures
It’s been a whirlwind at Casa Jaquandor ever since, oh, Labor Day weekend! September was an abnormally busy time at The Store for me (I worked more than 46 hours in two different weeks), I got sick in the middle … Continue reading
Bad Joke Friday
A friend posted this on Facebook, and it is well and truly bad. My dentist said he could put me under with gas, or with a canoe paddle. It was an ether/oar situation.
Something for Thursday
On Twitter the other day, one of my fellow scribes indicated a big fondness for gold old fashioned love triangles. And me, being the huge Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fan that I am*, immediately thought of one of my favorite songs from … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
My October tradition in this series is to feature works of music that are dark, or macabre, or outright tinged with terror. This one is a melancholy meditation, a brooding work on the journey to death. Here is Sergei Rachmaninov’s … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday (Wednesday Edition)
It’s October, so it’s time to feature spooky stuff here! First up, some film music: A suite from John Williams’s score to The Fury, a Brian De Palma-directed horror movie from 1978. This was right in the middle of Williams’s … Continue reading
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