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And who the pluck cares what Tom & Katie's baby looks like? Why was THIS on every TV station, this morning?!
Why should we pay so much attention NOW when we can just wait about 14 years for Suri to release her first pop album and we'll hear it blasted in every airport, while we're on hold, and in the john?!!
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Thought for Today
Recently, I was asked by an acquaintance why I so boldly assert that I do not feel that Sarah Brightman should be considered Classical music ( Read more... ) -
So Wicked was... good.
James bought us tickets to see Wicked back in June. We'd been looking forward to it for months. Both of us had heard lots of cool buzz about the show and had heard lots of songs from the soundtrak (we both really enjoy broadway musicals... go figure).
But when we finally were sitting in the theatre, last night, the reality set in that this show ( Read more... ) -
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No offense to anyone out there in LJ land who is Catholic, BUT...
I heard on the news, this morning, that the leading exorcist at the Vatican now claims that many prominent, frightening figures (among them, most notably, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin) were not making their decisions on their own accord but were actually posessed by Satan. In effect ( Read more... ) -
A question of rhythm and meter...
Say you had a piece in 12/8 (4 beats per measure, three divisions per beat), but in this piece there were lots of occurences of duplets (divisions of TWO on a beat) and finally a "4-let" made of quarters that is supposed to be spread evenly over beats three and four ( Read more... ) -
Pics from our Louisiana Trip
I'm going to try, once again, to post pictures of mine and James' trip to Louisiana, this past July.
This is James and my niece, Skylar, coloring at the Camp in Manchac.
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The stuff of life...
I'm in a bit of a difficult place, right now... I mean, things have definitely been a lot worse than they are and I feel almost STUPID for even nudging a complaint, but I'm just so tired ( Read more... ) -
My weekend...
It's Monday... time to report on the weekend ( Read more... ) -
The Trouble With Music...
The trouble with music is that it is an ART... and yet it is also a science. It is not enough that one's mind can hear such beautiful and meaningful things. No, that's not exactly music. These ideas then have to be "translated" into a language that other musicians can understand. This is often a painful process for a composer for it often ( Read more... ) -
And now... onto year #2
Yesterday, James and I decided to celebrate our anniversary by taking a trip up to the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Oddly enough, they are NOT in Chicago, they are located in a northern suburb in a town called Glencoe. Still, all the funds and staffing for the gardens come from the City of Chicago's Parks & Forest Preserve ( Read more... )