Category Archives: music

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Posted on May 28, 2022 by ksedinger

Here’s something in the “You learn something new every day!” Department: there is a Chinese reed instrument called the Sheng, which involves several upright pipes in a nifty kind of cross between an oboe and a calliope. Here a sheng … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on May 26, 2022 by ksedinger

A break from the “Conversation Songs” series, in honor of actor Ray Liotta, who died today. Share This Post

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on May 24, 2022 by ksedinger

Here’s something that I’m not sure if I’ve done in this space: shared a work I was literally listening to for the first time, all the way through, as I’m writing the post. I was on the way home from … Continue reading →

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No orchestra? No problem

Posted on May 21, 2022 by ksedinger

Franz Liszt, one of the first virtuoso superstars of the music world, didn’t stop at composing his own showpieces to display his own incredible talent at the piano keyboard. He also transcribed for piano many of the great symphonic works … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on May 19, 2022 by ksedinger

Continuing my little series on “One-way Conversation Songs”, when the lyrics are literally one side of a conversation, we take an infrequent trip into Country music this week. In this song, Jo Dee Messina is catching up with a friend … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on May 17, 2022 by ksedinger

Film music today! This weekend was, among other things, the twentieth anniversary of the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, which is one of my favorite installments in the series. Even now, when the Prequel Trilogy has … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday: Conversation songs, No. 2

Posted on May 12, 2022 by ksedinger

Here’s another “Conversation Song”! This is my ongoing series, started last week, in which I feature songs whose lyrics give us one side of a conversation, and we are left to infer the other half. This week’s song dates from … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on May 10, 2022 by ksedinger

A suite of film music today! We watched Avatar the other night, our first time watching it since we first saw it when the DVD came out after the movie’s initial release, way back in 2009 or 2010 or so. The … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday (Conversation songs, 1)

Posted on May 5, 2022 by ksedinger

I’m going to start something new here: a series within a series! For the next dozen weeks (or more!), Something for Thursday will be devoted to songs with a specific twist: the lyrics are one side of a conversation. The … Continue reading →

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May 4: Audrey, and Star Wars

Posted on May 4, 2022 by ksedinger

Unrelated except by calendrical coincidence, it’s Audrey Hepburn’s birthday… …and, thanks to the pun May the Fourth be with you, it is also STAR WARS Day.   Share This Post

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