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Something for Thursday (St. Paddy’s Day on a Sunday edition)

Some Irish music, because…Irish music. And I have no idea if John Williams has any Irish ancestry in him at all, but his score to Far and Away is so good that I am officially declaring him a Temporary Honorary Irish … Continue reading

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Something for Roger (on Thursday!)

On the occasion of his 71st birthday, here are The Beatles as channeled through the instrument that was Joe Cocker: May Roger have another 71 trips around the sun in store, at least!  

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Eddie

Born this date: Edward Van Halen, in 1955. This is what I wrote when he died, in 2020–but I’d rather honor him on the day on which he was born. It took me a while to start loving rock music. … Continue reading

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Coverage!

I didn’t really plan to skip Tone Poem Tuesday or Something For Thursday this week, it just kinda happened. There’s this meme that I see go around social media every year around this time, referring how the time between Christmas and New … Continue reading

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LB

Netflix released a trailer for the upcoming movie Maestro today, and let me tell you…I am well-and-truly excited to see this movie. It will be on Netflix in late December, right in time for my Christmastime vacation. I’ve watched this trailer … Continue reading

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Sinead

What a voice she had. What a musician she was. Too hard was her life. On the musical collaboration above: And back through the glen I rode again And my heart with grief was sore For I parted then with … Continue reading

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Tony

Thank you for the music, sir. What a life. I’m not one to appoint “golden ages” of this or that, but…there really is something awfully and uniquely special about the first half of the 20th century in American popular song-writing, … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday: The Annotated “Stars and Stripes Forever” (a repost)

This is a repost of something I wrote some years ago. Back in my BlogSpot days this post was a regular driver of search-engine traffic to my blog; I’m not sure if that’s the case now or not, but it … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

A piano concerto, today, and a very modern one at that: composed in 2018 and premiered a year later, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is the third piano concerto by composer John Adams. Adams is best known for … Continue reading

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Time for a Reappearance

Things are still busy and hectic in my world, so posts will still be brief. How brief? This brief! Here’s some Borodin, since we haven’t had Borodin on around here in a while and you can’t go wrong with Borodin:

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