There’s been a great coincidence this week: the major leaf-fall in the backyard has coincided with what, apparently, is going to be a string of cool and sunny days. This means that I can get the leaves up before the final slide into the cold and wet of what passes for late Fall around these [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Music’
8 October, 2009
Wherein I lamely name drop
Now that the kids are in that wonderful twilight between the end of homework and bedtime (a period of usually 60 to 90 minutes) I have time to write a second post for the day. The previous one was quite elliptical, mostly because the image around which I based the story was lost in the [...]
10 October, 2008
Close calls
I’m a tad groggy today. And, given that I’m not a coffee-drinker, I have to find some other way of keeping focused. [It's not that I don't drink coffee at all. I will drink it as a accompaniment to breakfast, or after dinner. However, I don't use it to wake up in the morning or to [...]
19 September, 2008
More dodecaphonic goodness
Hot on the heels of the Raisin Brahms ad comes this informercial for the toe-tapping triskadekaphobic tunes of the second Viennese school.
23 April, 2008
Guilt by association
OK, in high school, the big musical theatre group (composed of juniors and seniors) put on a semi-staged production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (auf Englisch, näturlich). The parts were divided in three: three Taminos, three Paminas, etc. and the arias were divided up similarly. I forget the aria I sang, as Tamino, but I [...]
10 April, 2008
Music notes from all over
The big group number at the end of the girls’ dance recital in just over a week is based on C+C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now (Gonna Make You Sweat)”. This has brought up a number of topics.
The girls told me that their dance was like “Da Dit Dah Dah, everybody dance” and I knew [...]
