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Tuesday Tones

Today we conclude the exploration of Music Inspired By Water, with a gigantic work by English master Ralph Vaughan Williams. From what I’ve learned, I could keep doing Music Inspired By Water for months! But I think it’s time to … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Two days ago marked the 270th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was one of those miraculous artists whose talent eclipsed the perceived limits of human ability. Mozart produced work of effortless profundity, in perfect proportion, in … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

The recent theme here, Works Inspired By Water, will be wrapping up next week…not for lack of works to continue presenting, but because I want to move on to other things! This particular theme, which occurred to me almost randomly … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Here’s a movement from a Bach partita for solo violin. But what is a partita? It is simply a suite for solo instrument or voices, usually in several movements. Hey, why should everything have a complex definition? This particular movement, … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

Continuing our ongoing exploration of classical music inspired by water in some way, we have this short and lovely piece by Maurice Ravel. It took me longer than I suppose it should have to “discover” Ravel, because my introduction to … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

What’s it like when the music and the visuals of a film meld together perfectly? Well, here’s one such example, which is simply the greatest opening credits sequence history ever. Yes, I said it.

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Tuesday Tones

Continuing with our exploration of music with a water theme or inspired by water, we look at the early days of American classical music. America didn’t really “come of age” musically until the 20th century, with the arrival of jazz … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

It’s always amazing to me what random stuff people will suddenly be talking about on social media. The last few days I’ve seen chatter as millennials and GenZers discover “Schoolhouse Rock”, those wonderful animated shorts with memorable songs that taught … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

The weekly music feature returns! As does the theme we were exploring before December took over: music inspired by water, or written with a watery “theme”. And today we have two works, by two titans of classical music, neither one of … Continue reading

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Frohes Neues Jahr!

It’s January 1, 2026. Wow. We made it. We got through 2025. And if I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure that 2025 doesn’t slide in right above 2020 if we’re ranking recent years by how much of a shitshow … Continue reading

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