Tag Archives: Music

LB

Posted on October 25, 2023 by ksedinger

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 →

Posted in music, On Movies, On Music | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Sinead

Posted on July 26, 2023 by ksedinger

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 →

Posted in music, Passages | Tagged , | Comments Off on Sinead

Tony

Posted on July 21, 2023 by ksedinger

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 →

Posted in music, Passages | Tagged , | Comments Off on Tony

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

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Kelly Sedinger

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 →

Posted in music | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on June 13, 2023 by ksedinger

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 →

Posted in music | Tagged , | Comments Off on Tone Poem Tuesday

Time for a Reappearance

Posted on May 31, 2023 by ksedinger

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:

Posted in music | Tagged | Comments Off on Time for a Reappearance

Scenes from amongst the lilacs (and a bit of Rachmaninoff!)

Posted on May 21, 2023 by ksedinger

The warm months of the year, for us, tend to be bookended by two specific festivals: the Rochester Lilac Festival in May, and the Ithaca Applefest in October. Lots of stuff happens in between, but those are the markers of … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, music, Photographic Documentation | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Scenes from amongst the lilacs (and a bit of Rachmaninoff!)

Behold the Ritual Clearing of the Tabs

Posted on May 13, 2023 by ksedinger

Yup, it’s that time again: When I look at Chrome and realize, “Wow, I have a lot of tabs open to stuff.” ::  On the oldest book in the world printed with movable type, and it’s not the Gutenberg Bible: The … Continue reading →

Posted in music, On Bib Overalls, On Teevee, Random Linkage | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

A song

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ksedinger

I happened on this artist yesterday via social media. I liked this song a great deal, and I plan to explore her music more. Her name is Áine Deane (the first name is apparently pronounced “Onya”), and she is from … Continue reading →

Posted in music | Tagged | Comments Off on A song

Rachmaninoff at 150: The First Symphony

Posted on April 15, 2023 by ksedinger

Rachmaninoff did not have a huge symphonic output, in terms of quantity: just three symphonies, written over the course of his lifetime. But in those three symphonies there are entire universes. Rachmaninoff’s ability to get so much varied musical life into … Continue reading →

Posted in music | Tagged , , | 1 Comment