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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

A longer work today, and one that I’m unfamiliar with to this point: the Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saens. Saint-Saens was one of the most gifted musical prodigies in history, ranking almost with Mozart in terms of the ease with which music … Continue reading

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It really is like this (a writing update)

Since I rededicated this space as my primary home online and the center of my blogging universe, I haven’t discussed my writing progress much! But first, a diversion. Someone shared this painting on Twitter the other day, and I found … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

OK, yesterday I featured Queen doing “White Christmas”. Freddie Mercury is one of the four faces on my personal Mount Rushmore of popular music voices, so let’s see what I can find by the other three? Here’s Annie Lennox: Next … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Here’s a rarity that I didn’t even know existed. It’s not the best quality recording, because it’s taken from a live show more than forty years ago, but the worst recording of Freddie Mercury is still a recording of Freddie … Continue reading

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And now, an airplane.

Just because, here’s a cool-looking plane. It’s meant for really big cargo, and it’s called–get this–the “Super Guppy”. You can see the full size version of this here.  

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Since I’m doing all this James Bond content of late, here’s a Christmas song from the James Bond Christmas movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service! (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie, but yes, that ending…sob….anyway….) This song is heard in the movie … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I’m going to put Something for Thursday on hiatus as well until after Christmas, again for the same reasons: my available time for blogging and listening to music is going to take a bit of a hit in a week … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Over the years I’ve posted a lot of Christmas music by chamber ensembles, but I tend to gravitate toward brass quintets and string quartets. So, today, let’s give the Woodwind Quartet and Quintets some love!

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A View to a Ranking: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 3

With this entry, we move from my bottom half of the Bond rankings into the top half. It’s worth remembering that this is all relative: there’s only one movie, Live and Let Die, that I find basically unwatchable. Every one of … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

It’s December 1! If you’re new to my blogging game, this is something I’ve been doing every December for…a while, anyway. I did it every year at Byzantium’s Shores, and I’m doing it here. Every day from December 1 to Christmas … Continue reading

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