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Scenes of Almost-Winter

As I write this we’re about eleven days or so from the start of winter. I live in the Buffalo area, though, and winter is starting to show itself, like an impatient performer eager to take the stage. In fact, … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Enya.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

OK, so after a really busy day of errands and whatnot yesterday I suddenly remembered about 11:00pm that I hadn’t posted a Daily Dose, so I went with a comedy number by Johnny Carson that I use every year. But … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

One of my favorite Christmas comedy bits:

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Even now it comes as a surprise to a lot of people that the trumpet isn’t just an instrument for blazing fanfares and astonishing brass coluratura fireworks. The trumpet can be a deeply lyrical instrument as well, as is heard … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

So tonight I get to go see a live performance by the biggest star I will ever have seen live: Celine Dion! In that case, we’d better hear some of her Christmas work, right?

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Scottish singer and songwriter Dougie MacLean has been a favorite artist of mine for years, but I only just today learned that he wrote a Christmas song of his own. And here it is!

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Tone Poem Tuesday

So this week we conclude our trip through Dvorak’s trio of tone poems that he called “Nature, Life, and Love” with the Othello Overture. There was some definite Shakespearean inspiration for Dvorak here, but it’s not wise to try to … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

Here are some selections from the album The Bells of Dublin, a Christmas album by The Chieftains and various other artists. Enjoy! (The third selection is a bit of Christmas-themed gallows humor, if you thought that such a thing could … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

One of the great sopranos left us just a couple of months ago: Jessye Norman, who died September 30 at 74 years of age. Norman was not only an amazing singer with the kind of voice that could fill a … Continue reading

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