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Something for Thursday

Posted on March 19, 2026 by ksedinger

I’m going to get back to my little series featuring Black Music From The 1970s soon, but this song has been living rent-free in my head of late, so that means it’s time to feature it here. It’s by Canadian … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tones

Posted on March 17, 2026 by ksedinger

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, which means I’m going to take a quick break from American Black composers. (Sadly, a brief attempt to locate Irish Black composers did not turn up much of anything at all. I did not dig super-deeply, … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on March 12, 2026 by ksedinger

Continuing an exploration of Black Music of the 1970s, we have Minnie Riperton today. Riperton was a native of Chicago who tragically hit it big with her soprano voice, enormous range, and an airy tone that gave her songs an … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tones

Posted on March 10, 2026 by ksedinger

Jonathan Bailey Holland is a composer originally from Flint, MI who is currently the Dean of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. According to his bio, he has had music performed by ensembles all over the world, and … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on March 5, 2026 by ksedinger

I’ve been featuring Donna Summer the last few weeks, and then the other day The Wife and I were driving around doing errands and we were listening to 70s On 7 on SiriusXM, where a string of selections made me … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tones (extending Black History Month, just because)

Posted on March 3, 2026 by ksedinger

I couldn’t decide which of three pieces to feature today, so I said to myself, “Why limit myself to one?” That’s right, you get all three. Composer and flautist Valerie Coleman has had a deeply impressive career already. A native of … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on February 26, 2026 by ksedinger

It’s late in the day and it was a long and busy one today and my brain’s mush, so I’m sticking with Donna Summer. Here’s “Hot Stuff”! A bonus: Summer’s song was perfectly used in The Full Monty:

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Tuesday Tones (Black History Month)

Posted on February 24, 2026 by ksedinger

Oh, is THIS piece a “banger”, as the kids say! (A really good song is a banger now. Up ’til now, if you said “banger” to me, I’d have assumed you were talking about a British breakfast sausage.) Composer Kevin … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday (I’m sick and just not in a great mood edition)

Posted on February 19, 2026 by ksedinger

Last week I featured Donna Summer. This week, I’m going to do so again. This one’s pretty trippy: It’s a suite of three songs, joined together to make one big nearly eighteen-minute suite. The main attraction is “Macarthur Park”, a … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tones (Black History Month)

Posted on February 17, 2026 by ksedinger

Courtney Bryan is a composer from New Orleans, born in 1982, who is currently a professor of music at Tulane University. She holds a doctorate and was a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. She is also, by the evidence of the piece … Continue reading →

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