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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Tone Poem Tuesday
Film music is often rearranged by the composers into suites that make for better performance in concert settings, and this is one of the better ones. I had this performance on a cassette tape many moons ago, but I never … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
In honor of Roger’s birthday, in which he turned 65, here is Camille Saint-Saens’s Septet for piano, trumpet, and strings. Why this piece? Because it’s Saint-Saens’s Opus 65! Happy birthday, Roger! (It was actually yesterday, but I couldn’t do Something … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
There’s always something fascinating about obscure Beethoven. You can’t help listening to it, trying to find hints of the staggering genius that would craft some of the greatest works of art in human history, and not just musical art. You can hear … Continue reading
Bad Joke Friday
Stolen from Tumblr…. Artist credit
Something for Thursday
Play enough marches in band in high school and college and they get into your blood. I heard this one on the radio yesterday, and while I’ve known it for years via recordings, I never played it that I can … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
The business of transcription is an interesting one. This is where works that are written for one instrument or group of instruments (or even voices) is rewritten, usually by a different composer than the original, for a different instrument or … Continue reading
Dispatches from the Weekend: Wine and Weirdo Doggies
So every year we celebrate my birthday in late September with a weekend trip to the Apple Harvest Festival in Ithaca, NY. (It’s always a few days after my actual birthday, but that’s fine.) The Wife has despaired of finding … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, My Love!
I’m late getting this posted because we spent most of the day driving (fun road trip, details tomorrow), but today is The Wife’s birthday, so it’s time for my annual repost of memories, thoughts, and observations on how she makes … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
So if you remember the pop music of the 1980s, you remember a band called a-ha, which had one giant hit in the US called “Take On Me”. They followed that up with a couple of less-successful singles (including the … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Composer Johann Johannsson died the other day. I am not terribly familiar with his music, but I have liked what I’ve heard. He seems to do a lot of atmospheric work that relies on repetition of motifs and long, slow … Continue reading