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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Symphony Saturday
The American composers of the Romantic era are an interesting bunch, because they exist in a kind of musical purgatory. Their music is not heard much, mainly because it’s all pretty firmly ensconced in the European symphonic tradition, and thus … Continue reading
Bad Joke Friday
From a newspaper in 1859. I’m so glad that bad humor is timeless!
Something for Thursday
Continuing with scary music! Or music for scary movies. Or…you get the idea. Here is a suite from Wojcech Kilar’s wonderful score to the rather uneven film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While the film is uneven, the score is a classic … Continue reading
When things collapse….
This past weekend was…an adventure. The groundwork started the previous weekend, when a large puddle formed at the corner of our street and the street that leads to it. It had rained a bit that weekend, so I didn’t think … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another hallmark of scary classical music: A Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky.
Sub-optimal function
As a rule, the underground pipe that supplies water to your domicile should not be doing this: Ayup. Showering is postponed indefinitely. Luckily for you all, who are reading this on a screen.
Bad Joke Friday
It’s not a bad joke, actually. Seen on Twitter: Is that… is that the Fanta of the Opera? pic.twitter.com/uqEGVFNsRj — Yacov Freedman (@yzfreedman) October 11, 2017
Something for Thursday
(Oops…as often happens, saved as draft and forgot to actually publish.) Continuing our month of spooky, scary music…here is a suite from Bernard Herrmann’s seminal filmscore, Psycho. No intro needed other than that!
At least THAT happened in 2017!
Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, tweeted my name. Here’s how it happened. It began with, surprisingly enough, William Shatner: I think @starwars has officially jumped the shark. 😳🙄 Wasn’t @HamillHimself supposed to be in this movie? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/HFiA56hlS3 — William … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here’s something I’ve never heard before: The Mask of the Red Death, a work for harp and string quartet by Andre Caplet. Caplet was a French composer and a contemporary of Claude Debussy, and in fact his most noted work … Continue reading