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Tone Poem Tuesday

Thus we end 2019! I’ll hear this work newly performed tomorrow night, when it is the traditional second encore in the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Years Concert. It’s not a new year until I hear On the Beautiful Blue Danube. See … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

TODAY’S THE DAY!!! And if you didn’t get to hear your personal favorite Christmas carol in this feature this season, I apologize…but here’s an entire album that covers almost the entire gamut. This is one of the great Christmas music … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

As Christmas nears each year, eventually the boisterous jollity of the season fades and the need for silence rises, and as we all adjourn from our daily lives to the sequestered comfort of our home (or, at least, so we … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

As a film music lover, here is some Christmas from the movies!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

An annual selection here, as I feature a Christmas carol that is specifically near and dear to a particular reader of mine (“Hi Mom!” he said as he cheerfully waved). It’s one that I never knew much about until a … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Here’s the entire album of A Charlie Brown Christmas, because it’s just a classic.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

A lovely work by John Rutter for today.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

I’ve always loved “The Little Drummer Boy,” so here are several to choose from. Pa rum pa pum pum!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (see the next post down), here’s the only Christmas song ever specifically composed for a James Bond movie: “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?”

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“Thy dawn, O master of the world, thy dawn….”: ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE AT 50 (a repost)

Fifty years ago today, on December 18, 1969, the sixth James Bond movie opened. Its initial reception was mixed, partly because the Bond mania of the 60s was simmering down, and partly because it was the first time that Sean … Continue reading

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