Something for Thursday

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

From Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble — producers of some of the most fascinating music out there — comes this spellbinding musical telling of a legend of a bird who flew to the sun, lost its body, but gained pure spiritual existence, “Ascending Bird”.

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

For September 11, Elegy by Mark Camphouse, played by the United States Marine Band.

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Something for Thursday (Friday Edition–farewell, Burt Reynolds)

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Burt Reynolds is gone. I always thought he was quite an underrated actor.

Like many from my generation, this movie is where I first saw him (I think–it might have actually been Hooper). Here’s Jerry Reed and “Eastbound and Down”, from Smokey and the Bandit.

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Tone Poem Tuesday (Friday edition)

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

I’m in crunch-time on drafting Forgotten Stars IV, which means that I’ve been focusing almost all of my energy there of late. But I don’t mean to leave this space completely fallow as I did this week!

So, here’s a Suppe overture. Because when in doubt, one can always listen to a Suppe overture. This one is Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna, conducted by a very young and spry Zubin Mehta (who is now 82–where does the time go!).

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Bad Joke Friday

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

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Something for Thursday

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

I’ve really been grooving to the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 of late, and of the wonderfully-chosen songs from that film, this one for me is a standout. I suspect that many people, like me, had never heard this song before the movie–or even heard of the song, as it was apparently just a regional hit in the 1970s, being about a road in Chicago. But it’s got this nifty energy to it that reminds me of some of the best country-rock out there.


I especially like the poetry in the lyrics, such as “And the blue lights shine with a heavenly grace to help you right on by.” Great song!

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

I still owe him a much longer post, but meantime, this past Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, one of the greatest musicians this country has ever produced. Here he is conducting the music of another of America’s greatest musicians, Aaron Copland, in his Appalachian Spring ballet. This is still the finest performance of this work I know.

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Something for Thursday

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

A bit of film music adapted for chamber performance, by the great Joe Hisaishi. From My Neighbor Totoro, here is “Kaze no Torimichi (The Path of Wind)”.

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Behold…THE GEEKIVERSE!!!

Posted on August 23, 2018 by ksedinger

The Geekiverse is a website run by some Buffalo-Niagara region geeky folk, and I have joined their ranks as a writer/commentator! My main input over there will be a regular column called “Curios from the Outer Rim”, in which I’ll discuss older items of geeky interest (my arbitrary rule is at least 15 years old), hoping to shine some light on things whose initial interest levels have faded or which have even lapsed into a bit of obscurity.

My first installment is a response to one of The Geekiverse’s podcasts, which in turn discussed “The Best Summer Movies”. Future installments are on the way!

I also provided an article for the site about the 2018 Hugo Awards, which were just handed out this past Sunday at Worldcon in San Jose, CA.

Exciting things are afoot! Check out The Geekiverse!

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Behold…THE GEEKIVERSE!!!

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Check this out, folks: I have joined local geek commentary website The Geekiverse as a staff writer! Huzzah!!

In addition to other things, I’ll be mainly writing a regular column I’m calling Curios from the Outer Rim, in which I look at geeky stuff that’s at least fifteen years old, so as to balance the ever-present focus on what’s coming out today/this weekend/this month/this year. My first installment is live now, so go take a look!

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