Category Archives: Passages

Oh, I don’t know if it’s the LAST verse…

Posted on November 29, 2024 by ksedinger

…because surely we can add more, if we want. Seems to me it’s kind of the point. Here’s a tribute film Disney made for its definitive songwriting duo, the Sherman Brothers. I don’t think I was aware that Richard M. … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday (Mitzi Gaynor edition)

Posted on October 17, 2024 by ksedinger

Actress and singer Mitzi Gaynor has died. She was 93, and she was one of the very last remaining stars with ties to the great era of the Hollywood movie musical. Her biggest role was likely South Pacific, the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein classic … Continue reading →

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Twenty-three

Posted on September 11, 2024 by ksedinger

This is a repost of what I wrote on the twentieth anniversary of 9-11-01. I find myself increasingly unable to think of anything new to say about that day. Maybe it has finally become a memory best expressed in older … Continue reading →

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“It will be as though they dipped themselves in magic waters.”

Posted on September 9, 2024 by ksedinger

Ninety-three. A hell of a life, a hell of a legacy. I hope he’s finding out now just what was in that cornfield, just beyond the left field line….

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Something for Thursday

Posted on July 11, 2024 by ksedinger

This was sad news to see when I got home from work today: Joe Bonsall of the Oak Ridge Boys died the other day, after a battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The Oak Ridge Boys weren’t huge in my household, but … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on June 20, 2024 by ksedinger

Two selections in honor of actor Donald Sutherland, a combination of distinctive look and voice, who has sadly died this day.  

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“I have come to conquer you!” A repost in honor of the great Roger Corman

Posted on May 15, 2024 by ksedinger

Filmmaker Roger Corman died the other day. It was always easy to poke fun at Corman’s films, but he strove to make them as good as he could, and on his own terms. Corman’s studio was not only prolific but … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on March 21, 2024 by ksedinger

First of all, a bit of administrativia: the post immediately below this one was supposed to run yesterday and I screwed up the publishing. Oops. Now: not music, but a scene from a teevee show today: the closing scene from … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday (Farewell, Seiji Ozawa)

Posted on February 13, 2024 by ksedinger

Maestro Seiji Ozawa died last week, aged 88. Ozawa was best known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, all twenty-nine years of that tenure–the longest of any of that great orchestra’s many amazing conductors. … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday (PDQ Bach edition)

Posted on January 30, 2024 by ksedinger

Peter Schickele died on January 16 of this year. He was a composer and a comedian who was best known as the self-styled musicologist responsible for “unearthing” the music of “P.D.Q. Bach”, the “21st of J.S. Bach’s 20 children”. Over … Continue reading →

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