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Tag Archives: Music
Serves me right for not being musical.
A reader recently asked how one goes about cultivating an interest in music in children, apropos of this post of mine from last week in which I noted that The Daughter has this year taken up the string bass. Some … Continue reading
I hope they weren’t waiting for me….
So, I become a Beatles fan at long last, and now they’re remastering the entire Beatles catalog. So if my fandom, or the lack thereof, was the hold-up on this for millions of Beatles fans throughout the world, I apologize!!!
From the Books
A series wherein I post longer excerpts from books I’ve read. I’ve been toying with the notion of writing a film script, as a different kind of challenge. I haven’t worked in the screenplay format since many years ago, when … Continue reading
Hey, WNED
On the off chance anyone from WNED, Buffalo’s classical music station, reads this: this sort of thing does not predispose me to giving money to WNED, something I had actually been considering doing. Now I think I’ll just buy a … Continue reading
The original one-hit wonder
One of my Facebook friends, a guy I went to college with and who was a fellow trumpet player, posted this video of a comedian who was once a cello player and thus has a special reserve of hatred stored … Continue reading
Twenty years
I’ve just realized that 2009 represents the twentieth anniversary of my graduation from high school, and my entrance into college. It was in 1989 that I formed dual obsessions with Richard Bach and Sergei Rachmaninov; it was in 1989 that … Continue reading
Food for thought….
Roger Ebert on Lee Greenwood: Here I was all set to go Elitist on the country singer Lee Greenwood, and I pulled the rug out from under myself. I shared Rachel Maddow’s incredulity that the limping duck George W. Bush … Continue reading
Music that goes bump in the night
I’m a bit late for the Halloween season with this, so you can bookmark this for next year (or maybe I’ll just repost it then). Here are some good examples of film and teevee music for your listening pleasure during … Continue reading
The years of my life (in music and movies)
So there’s this meme-thing percolating about in which you go through and pick your favorite album from each year you’ve been alive up to the present; I’ve been kicking that around for a while, long enough that now you’re supposed … Continue reading
Of Passions, forever and fleeting
WARNING: This is long, and quite likely boring. Passions come and go in this life, don’t they? Things we are just so passionate about when we’re young may remain passions throughout our adulthood; others may fade into memory of something … Continue reading