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Something for Thursday

A long and busy day with no time for thinking about posting means, as always, that when I get home I throw up a quick post with an overture by Franz von Suppe. This time I’ll change it up a … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Producer Jules Bass died the other day. If the name isn’t immediately familiar, it’s because people are probably more familiar with his name in the context of his partnership with Arthur Rankin, Jr, known as Rankin-Bass. Those two produced some … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I ended up going down a small rabbit hole not about piano music, but about pianists specifically. What’s how I found this comedic video, which I found pretty funny.  

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Something for Thursday

I did not realize, until late in the day yesterday, that it was the 150th anniversary of the birth of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. I’m going to have do some feature work on him in the coming months, I … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I’m sentimental, if you know what I meanI love the country but I can’t stand the sceneAnd I’m neither left or rightI’m just staying home tonightGetting lost in that hopeless little screen…. “Democracy” is my favorite Leonard Cohen song, and … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Nope, not back to Leonard Cohen yet either. That should happen next week! Meanwhile, here’s ELO, one of my newest Favorite Bands. (I’ve always liked ELO from afar but I didn’t know their stuff very well. I’ve been catching up … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I know I said that we were doing Leonard Cohen month, but…I’m really not feeling like trying to write insightful stuff about anything right now. I’m still in “Let the world wash over me” mode. Here, instead, is “Spiegel im … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (Leonard Cohen edition)

For purposes of this weekly feature, let’s make the balance of September “Leonard Cohen Month”. Cohen was born in September 1934, and I feel like focusing on him a bit and waiting twelve years for his centennial doesn’t seem all … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

In honor of his eighty-seventh birthday today, here is conductor Seiji Ozawa leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Strauss’s overture to Die Fledermaus. Happy birthday, Maestro Ozawa!

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Something for Thursday

Here’s a sad song about a relationship coming to an end. Gordon Lightfoot wrote “If You Could Read My Mind” about his own divorce, and the lyrics are shot through with the bitterness of a man who realizes that the … Continue reading

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