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Category Archives: On Music
Something for Thursday
Jim Croce would have been 82 years old last Friday. There’s a very special magic at work in Croce’s songs. The blend of lyrics, guitar playing, and his slightly gravely tenor voice with his expert way of not always hitting … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another new composer to me: Canadian-American composer Colin McPhee, who lived 1900 to 1964. I’m not sure what he is “best known” for, because his influence seems to be more behind-the-scenes than anything else, but McPhee did undertake some of … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff edition)
Peter Yarrow died the other day. Of Peter, Paul, and Mary, only Paul remains. I should write more sometime about how much their music meant to me, but as I listen to this…I can’t make out the words I’m typing. … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
A new composer to me! And thus, hopefully, to you. One of my favorite eras of “national” classical music is the English music of the 20th century, starting with Holst and Vaughan Williams and continuing on to Britten, William Walton, … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
This feature was hibernating through December, what with the Daily Dose of Christmas, but we’re back now! We’ll start with observing the bicentennial of German composer Anton Bruckner, who was born in 1824. So yeah, we missed it. Oops. I … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
The day is here! May your Holiday be filled with merriment and good cheer. Merry Christmas, everyone!
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
One more day…. My general tradition when I get to the 24th is to post a grab-bag of favorites that didn’t get their own posts this year. But hardly also-rans–these are greats and favorites that I don’t want to ignore. … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Another year gone by without seeing The Nutcracker live. What in God’s name am I waiting for? Well, I don’t know. This Christmas season has been unusually chaotic and hard to plan. For me the problem was twofold, I think. First, … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
As a lover of film music for just about all my life, here are some film music selections from Christmas movies! First, from 1984’s A Christmas Carol, the one starring George C. Scott: Next, a suite from the 1951 version of A … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
Earlier in the month I featured a Christmas song by The Killers, a band I’ve been delving much more deeply into this year (more to come on that in my end-of-year summation post). So now I’m thinking, “What about some … Continue reading