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Tone Poem Tuesday

I found this while searching for recordings by Sir Neville Marriner for yesterday’s post on his passing. Marriner seems to be best known for conducting Baroque and Classical-era music, but he was far from limited to those periods. Frederick Delius … Continue reading

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Sir Neville Marriner

Conductor Sir Neville Marriner has died. I first heard his work, as I suspect did many, in the context of the film Amadeus, but over the years since, I have heard a great deal more of his wonderful music-making. Marriner … Continue reading

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Symphony Saturday

OK, so I didn’t get my post written on Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 done, so in the meantime, we’ll go back in time and back to good old Ludwig van Beethoven. We heard the mighty Ninth Symphony a while back … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

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Something for Thursday

A few tunes from English folk singer Kate Rusby today!

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Thoughts on being 45

Hey, I’m 45. Ayup. But I had cake, so…ayup. That’s all I got. Off to do stuff!

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Symphony Saturday

Alexander Borodin only wrote two complete symphonies and fragments of a third. In discovering this wonderful composer of late, I’m at the same time heartbroken at his relatively small output, but also amazed at its quality. This is a man … Continue reading

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Football fandom is weird.

Here’s some math. An NFL game takes roughly three hours to play. So if you watch every single play of each of your team’s sixteen regular-season NFL games, at season’s end you will have watched 48 hours of football. That’s … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

Q: How do you fix a brass instrument? A: With a tuba glue!

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Myself in Three Fictional Characters

So there’s a meme going around the various social media sites in which you pick three fictional characters to depict yourself. Here are my three: How about yours?

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