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Tone Poem Tuesday

An American in Paris. Is it a tone poem? You bet! Or rather, a “symphonic poem”, which is really much the same thing. Gershwin intended the work to reflect the energy and rhythms he experienced while traveling in 1920s Paris … Continue reading

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Happy Pi Day!!!

UPDATE 3/14/2019 I see this post is getting a lot of traffic all of a sudden, so if you like this sort of goofiness, check out my similar post from last year, which features a newer video in which I … Continue reading

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Instaweeks

I haven’t done this in a long time — just a feature of a number of my recent photographic adventures via Instagram or Flickr. Here’s some stuff that’s been going on of late! (This was a total FAIL of a … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

Eep! I almost forgot about this! Take it away, Mr. Astrophysicist Man: Geologists are important for our understanding of rocks on Earth and on other planets. So never take them for granite. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017

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Something for Thursday

I’ve featured this piece before, but it’s turned up a number of times recently in my life — a couple of times on the radio, and the other night two movements from it featured in The Daughter’s school concert. So … Continue reading

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Squaring Eight

Roger Owen Green has turned sixty-four, which means that the one age to have a Beatles song devoted to it is now his! Huzzah! Here’s a barbershop-quartet type of cover of that very song. Go wish Roger a happy birthday. … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Here’s a strange work by Ludwig van Beethoven, written to commemorate a victory in battle by the Duke of Wellington. The piece is viewed as one of Beethoven’s lesser works, and probably rightly so. Even Beethoven himself admitted as much, … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

A visual one this week! Here is the cheesiest pick-up line ever:

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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)

When in doubt, go with Lerner and Loewe.

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Happy Birthday, My Love!!!

It’s The Wife’s birthday! Time for my annual repost of things, memories, factoids, and other ephemera relating to the many, many ways she makes my life better. 1. Her hand fits perfectly into mine, as though our hands were fit … Continue reading

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