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Tabs! Get ’em while they’re open!

Time to clear out some tabbage: ::  Two morons were convicted in Great Britain of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree. Good. ::  Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, 80 years old and battling cancer, has called it a career. Tilson Thomas … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I wanted to like this more than I did, but it’s worth watching, even if it’s way too frantic: it’s a short film comprised of drone footage of many of Buffalo’s architectural gems. I’ve been nearly everywhere in this film, and it … Continue reading

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From the Royal Ontario Museum

In the “Toy Soldiers” display:

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Tuesday Tones

I wrote yesterday about how we attended the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance to film of the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I noted how impressed I was with the orchestra’s technical precision during the action cues, particularly the … Continue reading

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Indy and the BPO

At some point in the last ten-fifteen years, orchestras happened upon a new formula for a cash-cow event: performing the entire score to a movie as the movie itself played on a screen above them. These events have proven very … Continue reading

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A reading for the day

Today being a very important day, I figured I should offer a reading. May the Fourth be with you!

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On the streets of East Aurora

A few weeks back I was able to spend an hour or so walking around the main drag of East Aurora on a Saturday evening (The Wife was out with friends! Can you believe that!). I was hoping for some … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I’ve featured this before–in fact, it was my Song of the Year for 2015!–but I haven’t featured it here in a while, and lately I’ve been listening to it a bit. You might say that it’s even been wandering on … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

Today we’re going to listen to three different versions of the same piece! But don’t worry, the piece is really short. Like, really short. It’s about a minute long. And if you have ever been a viewer of CBS Sunday Morning, you … Continue reading

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Strange things are afoot at…

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