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Tone Poem Tuesday
I make an attempt every now and then, maybe once every year or two, to acquaint myself with the music of Alan Hovhaness, and I invariably come up short. I don’t really know why, but I’ve yet to find a … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Another by Eric Whitacre, this one is called Sleep. Here it is for wind ensemble: Lovely and meditative, isn’t it? But it’s not doesn’t end there. Whitacre actually composed this piece for choir first. The idea was to set a Robert … Continue reading
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Let there be VLOG!!!
I’ve been thinking for years about vlogging and video content. I’ve even made some, here and there! But now, I’ve decided it’s time to get serious about this, now that I have actually decent video gear and also now that … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
We started 2024 in the usual fashion: with the Vienna Philharmonic. Here is the delightful and traditional end to that concert: On the Beautiful Blue Danube followed by the Radetzy March. Note our conductor, Christian Thielemann, directing the audience’s rhythmic clapping. That … Continue reading
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How Superman’s Butt Saved Christmas
(Blame SamuraiFrog for this one, folks — he gave me the title! I deny all accountability. Except for the part where I write the following tale. Which I’m doing stream-of-conscious, right off the top of my head. No editing.) Lore … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
In college, every year we did a big Christmas Pageant thing, a big concert of sacred music performed by the combined forces of the concert band, the choir, and the jazz vocal group. This was all tied together by a … Continue reading
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Two photos, five words
Daisy has opinions. It begins.
The Chairman of the Board will see you now.
Sheila O’Malley has a typically lovely post about Frank Sinatra, whose birthday is today. I started composing a comment on her site, but then I realized that my thoughts were getting away from me, so I decided to … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
One of the eternal questions in relating to art is how to separate one’s feeling for the art from one’s feelings for the artist. This is not the least bit new; it’s a problem that is probably as old as … Continue reading