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- A Grab Bag Post September 28, 2022
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- “Can you love someone you don’t remember?” (A book review) September 25, 2022
- A Tale of Four Laptops September 24, 2022
- Hopefully the last of the Placeholder Posts! September 23, 2022
- Something for Thursday September 22, 2022
- Holding patterns please…. September 21, 2022
- Tone Poem Tuesday September 20, 2022
- In other new-shirt news…. September 19, 2022
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is one of the great stalwart works of all classical music. It’s also a work that…I just don’t like very much. At all. I’ve never warmed to it. It honestly does nothing for me. For years … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Nope, not back to Leonard Cohen yet either. That should happen next week! Meanwhile, here’s ELO, one of my newest Favorite Bands. (I’ve always liked ELO from afar but I didn’t know their stuff very well. I’ve been catching up … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I think that Franz von Suppe is to this blog as cream of mushroom soup is to Mark Evanier’s. Whenever Evanier is really busy, he posts a picture of a can of cream of mushroom soup. I tend to do … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I know I said that we were doing Leonard Cohen month, but…I’m really not feeling like trying to write insightful stuff about anything right now. I’m still in “Let the world wash over me” mode. Here, instead, is “Spiegel im … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I’m sure there will be something else on my mind eventually, but for now…no. Share This Post
Something for Thursday (Leonard Cohen edition)
For purposes of this weekly feature, let’s make the balance of September “Leonard Cohen Month”. Cohen was born in September 1934, and I feel like focusing on him a bit and waiting twelve years for his centennial doesn’t seem all … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Today we have a work of the kind that I find deeply challenging to write about, because I know so very little about this whole approach to music in the first place. It’s an avant-garde piece by 20th century Greek-French composer … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
In honor of his eighty-seventh birthday today, here is conductor Seiji Ozawa leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Strauss’s overture to Die Fledermaus. Happy birthday, Maestro Ozawa! Share This Post
Tone Poem Tuesday
There’s something particularly fascinating about the composers who labored in the Soviet Union in the 20th century. These artists had to walk a very fine line between personal expression and the creation of art that would earn the approval of … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Here’s a sad song about a relationship coming to an end. Gordon Lightfoot wrote “If You Could Read My Mind” about his own divorce, and the lyrics are shot through with the bitterness of a man who realizes that the … Continue reading