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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

I always feature the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky at some point during the month. I don’t often form mental associations with music and specific places or times in my life, but this is one of the exceptions: the Nutcracker Suite … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

The fact that someone went to the trouble of putting this together is either a sign of an awesome mind at work or a horrible mind at work. Maybe both! (It’s the “Shut up, Wesley!” that makes it one of … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday: Happy Birthday, Hector!

Today is Hector Berlioz’s birthday! Oh Hector, the greatest of all French composers! Here, in his honor, is his Le Corsaire overture.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

I honestly can’t usually stand “Carol of the Bells”, but leave it to the Muppets to make it palatable!

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Apropos of a conversation I had on Twitter today, do you like fruitcake? (Sorry to be so late with this. I literally forgot it was Wednesday. These last few weeks have done bad things to my brain, man….)

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

I use this one every year, because it’s such a perfect, perfect song — the lyrics capture the emotions so brilliantly, and the song’s place in the Christmas pantheon is well-earned, even if it is a sad one that is … Continue reading

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Fixing the Prequels: Revenge of the Sith (part eleven)

Previously: ten nine eight seven six five four three two one And now we come to it: the final scenes of Revenge of the Sith. Most of what I would change here would be to touch up the emotional undercurrent … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Sinatra. Martin. “A Marshmallow World”.

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“Shiny in the Black”: A FIREFLY Christmas! (part two)

(Continuing my repost of this Very Special Christmas episode of…) part one Wash put Serenity down on the landing pad, nice and gentle. So nice and gentle that Zoe complimented him on it. “You’re getting’ more gentle all the time, … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Christmas isn’t complete without choral music, and quite a lot of it. This is “Salvation is Created”, by Pavel Chesnokov. This showed up on several of our Christmas programs during my years at Wartburg College.

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