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Tuesday Tones

Today a long tone poem by composer Michael Kamen, who is famous for his film scores (Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Three Musketeers) as well as his work with many rock musicians, often providing orchestrations for their songs that required … Continue reading

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Olev

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Abstract Water

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Something for Thursday (Friday because I lost track of time yesterday edition)

I’ve been thinking about reviving my dormant Substack newsletter and one feature I’m thinking about is an occasional (maybe monthly) deep look at an entire album that I love or that has special significance to me, but I have no … Continue reading

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Blur

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Tuesday Tones

Continuing, but not completing, our exploration of classical music inspired by the Moon, we have a work that I have been waffling on whether or not to include…because it is not inspired by the Moon, even though it always shows up … Continue reading

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Sunday Burst of Weirdness

How about we revisit an old feature that I used to run semi-regularly on this site? It’s the Sunday Burst of Weirdness, where I link an item or two that struck me during the previous week as “Wow, that’s really weird.” … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Last weekend we watched the original Jurassic Park, which still holds up amazingly well! Especially for a movie made in the pre-cell phone era. (That doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but I have found that lots of times I watch movies in … Continue reading

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“Meh, who cares, halftime is when you use the bathroom and get more food anyway”

I’ve observed the loudly negative reaction to a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny being named the performer at halftime of the upcoming Super Bowl with…not amusement, actually. More of a headshaking, “There they go again” kind of thing. The … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

Returning after several weeks to our series of music inspired by the moon, we have a work by Julian Anderson, a composer with whose works I am unfamiliar. One bio of Anderson I read provides this information: Julian Anderson is … Continue reading

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