Category Archives: Music

The most powerful man in the world

March 4, 2009 – 11:16 pm

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Quick, before it’s over

November 11, 2008 – 11:54 pm

I have to get this in before midnight. Good old Rolf Harris. Definitely appropriate for Veteran’s Day.
This song is a favorite in our house thanks to a (mostly Gawd-awful) English cd set Tribute to 70’s. Still, along with Donny Osmond and Puppy Love, this one gets heard fairly regularly around here.
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Inside Baseball

September 29, 2008 – 4:07 pm

This is for a small percentage of the audience, I know. The program for which I’d recently applied announced it’s new class. For those who’ve been wondering who got in, the announcement is here.

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Birthdays approaching

April 2, 2008 – 2:29 pm

Mine and Fluff’s, anyway. I’m thinking about taking her to the opera. The Met has a live broadcast that is carried by some movie theatres - and it’s La Boheme! How cool would this kind of a tradition be?

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West-meets-East

March 3, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Via Vodkapundit, the NY Philharmonic performed a first-ever concert last week in Pyongyang. And what a concert it was.
The national anthems of both countries,
Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin,
Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9,
George Gershwin’s American in Paris,
Farandole from Bizet’s L’Arlésienne,
Suite Number Two, Movement IV,
Bernstein’s Candide Overture, and
Arirang, an old Korean folk song.

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