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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I wasn’t a terribly big fan of my seventh grade English teacher, but one good thing she did was make us watch Scrooge, the musical version of A Christmas Carol, with Albert Finney as old Ebenezer. Of course, being the … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I don’t always believe that the first version of a song is the best, but in this case…yes, it is.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I had already posted yesterday’s Daily Dose of Christmas when I learned that it was Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, so I missed the boat there. I hope he doesn’t send his heavenly goons after me for posting these on the … Continue reading

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Symphony Saturday

Brahms. Johannes Brahms is one of the giant figures of late 19th-century music, and his symphonies are of sufficient import that they tend to fall into the “No classical music collection is complete without them” category. I personally consider them … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I’ve never been able to decide if I like “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, or if I find it really irritating. This version’s pretty fun, if you happen to have been a brass player at some point in your life. … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Christmas isn’t complete without Tchaikovksy.

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Something for Thursday

Cheese. Pure, unadulterated, joy-filled cheese. Here are The Three Tenors.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Here’s a band I love, even though for some reason I haven’t listened to them in a bizarrely long time: Blackmore’s Night, performing “Good King Wenceslas”!

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been killed? (For me, it was the next morning. I can’t remember if I heard it first on a Good Morning America kind of show or not, but I remember … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Time for a repeat of a song I use every year at some point: Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”, that achingly beautiful song that’s barely a Christmas song but yet perfectly captures that certain wistful part of the season, … Continue reading

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