Where the Hell is Bill?
An old Camper Van Beethoven song helps you contemplate.
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What did I learn in school this past week?
Bach wrote "a snootful of fugues." ("snootful" is, we were informed, a technical musical term) Bach's B Minor Mass was ignored until 75 years or so after it was written. Bach had been dead for some time, and Mendelsohn was "digging around" in the basement of the Leipzig library for "something new to...
Prom 62: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra / Davis
Prom 62 Originally uploaded by Thoroughly Good I fear I'm beginning to flag just a bit when it comes to promming. I'm still as committed as I was to begin with (even if some other people I know may question this given my comparatively poor attendance - Prom 62 brings my personal best to 23, I think)...
beethoven cardigans mozart
Since this is my weekend, that means that I get a chance to both listen to music and read. On the music front, I decided that it was long overdue for me to augment the classical portion of my music library. For me that meant some new Beethoven and Mozart. His third and eighth symphonies now reside...
Prom 44: Beethoven 6
All credit to Beethoven for Symphony No.6. Not only did he craft a work which deftly illustrates a Germanic pastoral setting when he'd lost his hearing, but it's his work which took me on a suitably escapist journey as I trudged my familiar route to work. Like the Fifth, Seventh and Ninth, the Sixth...
Beethoven Sticks it to Von Puffypants II
As I write this I am listening to the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra play the Eroica by Ludvig Von Beethoven. I am coming to love this piece of music. Last night I watched another documentary about it and came up with a few more gems to think about. One of the things I love about it is how it...
Am I the last Cylon?
"All Along The Watchtower, it probably came to me during a thunder and lightning storm. I'm sure it did --Bob Dylan The boys and I have been watching the Battlestar Galactica television series the last few weeks and today we got to the end of season three. I will not throw out any spoilers here but...
Beethoven sticks it to Von Puffypants
Beethoven’s Eroica (3rd Symphony) was apparently written to celebrate the heroism of Napoleon Bonapart who Beethoven admired as someone who understood that talent and ability should count more than status and title in society. The movie, Eroica is a brilliant portrayal of the first rehearsal of...
Children etiquette with stranger's pets.
*Woof! Woof* Howdy my fellow readers I haven't posted in a while and I thought after today's little escapade with Tracy I'd share a few tips. Now granted I'm a whooping 5lbs and I look all cute 'n furry but sometimes I get a little nervous. When people get nervous they fidget, when dogs like I get...
Alle Menschen Werden Bruder
One of the best things about living in LA is having become friends with the Candaele brothers, Kelly and Kerry. I was thinking of this on Sunday as I stood in Kerry‘s patio in Venice, talking to Billy Bragg about Woody Guthrie. Billy Bragg just finished a second album, working with Woody’s...
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