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Dickinson on Music

This is the second stanza of her poem J348: I would not talk, like Cornets - I’d rather be the One Raised softly to the Ceilings - And out, and easy on - Through the Villages of Ether - Myself endued Balloon By but a lip of Metal - The pier to my Pontoon I [ READ MORE ]

The Great Regression

NY Times - Prophecy of Machines I pay $15 a month to subscribe to the Times. I am sometimes disappointed with it, but this article today is outstanding. The author, Frederic Rezwiski is brilliant – and not only that, he knows what he is talking about. He added two new phrases to my vocabulary: Monopoly Capitalism and [ READ MORE ]

The Red Baton

Medici.tv The complete title is The Red Baton, Scenes from Musical Life in Soviet Russia. You will have to subscribe to medici.tv to view it. But if you pay your $10 for a month’s subscription, and only view this one documentary your money will be well spent: “In the Soviet Union, from 1917 to 1990, [ READ MORE ]

Khatia Buniatishvili Concert

  • July 27th, 2011
  • Posted in Music

Classical Music.com This is a video, a real find, available until Aug 9. She is an instinctive performer, as you will see on first seconds of the video. She is also a good-looking young chick. She plays the piano. In this concert she seems determined to educate her listeners in the history of music, with selections from Liszt, [ READ MORE ]

Rossini – Stabat Mater

  • June 11th, 2011
  • Posted in Music

New York Times I downloaded this from Amazon, and I must say I was satisfied with it – but didn’t quite know what to make of it either, since Rossini and Bel Canto were new to me. They are an acquired taste, but not one hard to acquire[ READ MORE ]

Alison Balsom – Haydn, Hummel

  • June 8th, 2011
  • Posted in Music

13 – Digital Booklet_ Haydn_Hummel_ Trumpet Concertos(1) According to Wikipedia: From 2009 to early 2011 she dated British conductor, Edward Gardner; they had a baby boy together. She gave birth in spring 2010 to a baby named Charlie. No mention is made of any marriages. However, this hardly matters. Her playing is what matters – and it [ READ MORE ]

Music Came Before Language

One of the benefits of individual study is that, after a while it become self-reinforcing: what you learn in one area is reinforced by what you learn in another. I am reading two books now: The Master and his Emissary and The Sounds of Poetry. The first is mainly about right-hemisphere vs left-hemisphere differences – [ READ MORE ]

Amazon MP3 Downloads; Brahms Requiem

  • February 16th, 2011
  • Posted in Music

The Web is a great place to get music of all kinds – and I prefer the classical variety. I used to belong to emusic, and was happy with them until I got my new 64-bit laptop which they didn’t have a downloader for. I bitched and bitched and bitched – to no avail. I [ READ MORE ]

Bertold Hummel

  • October 26th, 2010
  • Posted in Music

Wikipedia emusic This guy was a surprising find for me. I love Classical music, and I download a lot of it from emusic.com. They recommended him to me, and I have been well satisfied with his compositions – and with this recording. He writes modern classical, according to Wikipedia. You can get a taste of [ READ MORE ]

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity

  • April 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Music

You guys don’t deserve this, but I am going to lay it on you anyway: a TED talk about music. Robert Gupta is a talented classical violinist and a talented, natural speaker to boot. But I am warning you: this will make you feel good. If you would rather feel bad, don’t touch it[ READ MORE ]

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