Category Archives: music

Just a very short selection today (we were out and about, even with the snow! Yay!), but it’s cool not just because this rendition of “Jingle Bells” is a classic, but so is the equipment used to play it. Check … Continue reading →

Time for some Christmas comedy! This one is not safe for work. Probably neither is this one.  

Sorry to be so late with today’s selection, but it was a very busy day at work. Here is the Carol Symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson. We’re heading into the time of this yearly feature when I start playing more and more … Continue reading →

Here’s something interesting: a short (20 minutes) documentary I found about the kid-sized monorails that were used in some large department stores, usually in the toy sections, in the mid-to-late 20th century. These monorails–suspended from an overhead rail, as opposed … Continue reading →

Just twelve days left to the big day, huh? Hard to believe! It still feels to me like Christmas is a month away…but it’s not. Anyway, here’s an album: Carols from Clare, in which the Clare College Singers and Orchestra, conducted … Continue reading →

After mentioning Ralph Vaughan Williams yesterday, let’s listen to a bit of Gustav Holst today. Holst was born a couple years after RVW, so the two were roughly contemporaneous, and the two of them form pillars in England’s great musical … Continue reading →

Time for some sacred music. I feature the first work here, by Ralph Vaughan Williams most years: his Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a well-known work that is heard often in classical music settings this time of year. It’s quite a … Continue reading →

I just saw this on Facebook: And I thought, “What a great prompt!” And then I thought, “That’s such a good prompt that I’ll bet I’ve used it before.” And, sure enough! Well, I can use a prompt again, can’t I? Why, … Continue reading →

One of the most insanely busy weeks of work for me each year ends today, huzzah! Unfortunately that means that for our purposes here, all I have time for is a quick YouTube search and a couple of the resulting … Continue reading →

Nothing earth-shaking here musically–it’s just a collection of familiar Christmas tunes, arranged by Leroy Anderson (always a stalwart of light music)–but the ensemble might be unfamiliar. This is a British brass band, which is a grouping that arose in the … Continue reading →