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Something for Thursday
Songwriter Jim Steinman, one of the biggest contributors to the “bigger than life” aura of a lot of rock music of the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and beyond, has died. He was 73. Steinman’s songs were the stuff of excess: in … Continue reading
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Figure out a new funny.
For years, Ken Levine has done a “summation” post of the annual Oscar telecast, full of pithy humor. I don’t normally do much more than skim these over, because I don’t watch the Oscars and therefore I never have the … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
It’s April 20! Which means that it’s 4/20, and for a sequence of strange reasons involving some stuff some stoners did years ago, “420” is now a cannabis reference. This stuff is weird, really. I’ve nicked the following from Wikipedia: … Continue reading
Composer Focus: Jean Sibelius (part three)
Written when was 30, and thus nearing the halfway mark of his productive career, Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela is one movement from his Lemminkainen Suite, a collection of four tone poems that tell the story of one of the heroes … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday
Robert Schumann’s Traumerai is one of classical music’s best-known melodies. The original work is for solo piano, and many piano students learn it (though, to my recollection, this one never came to me during my years of piano instruction). There’s … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I have a two-fer today, because I couldn’t decide between these two selections and I figured, since they do kind of go together, why not just use both? Music for percussion only tends to be somewhat of a novelty, which … Continue reading
“Can you tell me how to get to Mandalore?” “This is the way.”
A couple weeks ago, we finished watching Season Two of The Mandalorian, so here are my thoughts on the show, including thoughts on Season One. None of this is in any particular order. In fact, it’s pretty damned random, because … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
On the off chance you need something atmospherically calming, in the best way that looking up at the stars is atmospherically calming, here is some Vangelis. This selection was one of many used by Carl Sagan and company in the … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Today was annoying and obnoxious, so I’m just declaring today done. Feh. (No, nothing bad, just one of those days where the planned work not only doesn’t go as easily as it should, but it also keeps getting interrupted by … Continue reading