Author Archives: ksedinger

Unplanned Hiati!

Is hiati the plural of hiatus? Let me go check…. Answer: It is not. It’s hiatuses. OK then! Anyway, I had no planned intention to take an entire weekend off from posting here, but that’s what happened. Nothing major happened, just a busy … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

A longer post breaking this unplanned hiatus is coming, but meantime…here’s Franz von Suppe! This is not an overture, though: It’s a march called Fatinitza.  

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Something for Thursday

A two-fer, because I couldn’t decide which of these to post. That’s when I remembered, “Hey, it’s MY blog, I can post two things if I want!” So, here are two things: The first track on the brand new album … Continue reading

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Thinking of the FLX

From our trip to Seneca Lake last year….  

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Tone Poem Tuesday

A piano concerto, today, and a very modern one at that: composed in 2018 and premiered a year later, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is the third piano concerto by composer John Adams. Adams is best known for … Continue reading

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“Welcome to Jurassic Park”: a theatrical experience so bad I remember it as much as the movie

Thirty years ago yesterday, Jurassic Park opened in theaters, after quite a lot of hype. I remember at the time the general reaction initially was “Pretty good, not Spielberg’s best, but a really solid effort, but too bad he didn’t have … Continue reading

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The newsletter lives!

I finally got out a new issue of my newsletter! It’s not the deep dive into Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony just yet, and if you’ve regularly been reading this site you won’t really need this letter all that much, but…here it … Continue reading

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Oh look, tabs….

Ach! Once again, life on the home front has become very, very full! Nothing bad, but very busy. Posting here may reflect that. I’m trying to get a handle on it all, because posting content and writing are important to me–they’re my … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Canadian (Toronto!) singer-songwriter Shannon Dooks released a new song recently, and last week she released the song’s official video, which is also partly a short film. I’ve been following Dooks online for several years now, and it’s nice to see … Continue reading

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The sailors were mum about “Orange skies at noon”

Being downwind of Canadian wildfires is not fun. It’s reminding me of being downwind of Mt. St. Helens eruptions back in 1980-81.

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