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Tag Archives: Music
Scenes from amongst the lilacs (and a bit of Rachmaninoff!)
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 "Rachmaninoff at 150", "Sergei Rachmaninoff", Daily Life Stuff, Music, Photo Posts
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Behold the Ritual Clearing of the Tabs
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 Lazy Linkage, Movies, Music, overalls, Teevee
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A song
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
Rachmaninoff at 150: The First Symphony
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
Tone Poem Tuesday
When Sergei Rachmaninoff was just 20, he wrote his first major orchestral work, a symphonic fantasy called The Rock, or sometimes The Crag. No lesser a musical luminary than Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was impressed with the piece–there was a brief relationship … Continue reading
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Rachmaninoff at 150: A Month of Celebration
I’ve been looking forward to this month for a while now! I actually started gathering ideas for an essay or two about Rachmaninoff a year ago, but then I looked up his dates and I realized that 2023 is his … Continue reading
Music from the Emerald Isle
Three selections: one Romantic, one Modern, one Contemporary, all Irish:
Mr. Ma answers all the cello questions you never knew you had!
I watched this during lunch today and it’s great!
Hey! Need some love music?
I made a playlist of love songs! 50 songs, 3 hours of music! (Now, I originally conceived this little exercise as a playlist for our wedding reception if The Wife and I were getting married now, or renewing vows, or … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Burt Bacharach has died. He was one of those ultra-prolific songwriters (along with frequent partner Hal David) who, for every song you knew he wrote, there’s probably two songs you know well that you did not know he had a hand … Continue reading