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Category Archives: music
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Here’s a rarity that I didn’t even know existed. It’s not the best quality recording, because it’s taken from a live show more than forty years ago, but the worst recording of Freddie Mercury is still a recording of Freddie … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Since I’m doing all this James Bond content of late, here’s a Christmas song from the James Bond Christmas movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service! (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie, but yes, that ending…sob….anyway….) This song is heard in the movie … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I’m going to put Something for Thursday on hiatus as well until after Christmas, again for the same reasons: my available time for blogging and listening to music is going to take a bit of a hit in a week … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Over the years I’ve posted a lot of Christmas music by chamber ensembles, but I tend to gravitate toward brass quintets and string quartets. So, today, let’s give the Woodwind Quartet and Quintets some love!
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
It’s December 1! If you’re new to my blogging game, this is something I’ve been doing every December for…a while, anyway. I did it every year at Byzantium’s Shores, and I’m doing it here. Every day from December 1 to Christmas … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here is the last Tone Poem Tuesday until after Christmas! I’m putting this feature on a brief hiatus for reasons that will become clear in a few weeks. Nothing bad, but time for posting will be a crunch for quite … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Some weeks I expend effort to engage my curiosity and find a work that I’ve never heard before and try to craft a good essay about a piece that’s new to me. Other weeks, I figure that old favorites exist … Continue reading
A Reminder…
…on a day when perhaps it’s needed, that there still is beauty in the world, and that we humans are capable of making it.
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Something for Thursday
Here’s something weird: a cosmic-rock power ballad by a brother-sister duo known more for their soft-rock love songs, which is actually a cover of a song by a Canadian band named for the hero of one of the most famous … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I found this piece quite randomly. The other day I wanted to listen to the famed Adagio from Aram Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus, and while doing a quick YouTube look-up I happened upon the same composer’s Symphony No. 3, which is subtitled … Continue reading