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The Common Rede: April 2015
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Saturday, April 25, 2015. Vocal Playlist with Notes. It has been a long time. I'll leave off excuses and just give some brief, choppy notes for the playlist above along with some links to lyrics and other stuff:. 1 Second piece in Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne. 3 Veljo Tormis, Estonian. From Forgotten Peoples. Lyrics and translation are in comments. Ph...
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The Common Rede: January 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Monday, January 20, 2014. Random Thoughts for 2014. Happy belated new year! Some people who want to get into orchestral or choral music will ask on various websites what famous works they should start off with. They get answers like Bach, Beethoven etc. sure, all those famous works are good, but enough already! Beautiful. Why follow the crowd? Generally I'd...
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The Common Rede: May 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Wednesday, May 21, 2014. An Old Debussy Recording. I can go on and on about my fondness for the Supraphon label and the Czech Philharmonic, but here is something especially different: a 1957 recording of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. Https:/ www.mediafire.com/? Sunday, May 4, 2014. My enemies die too slowly beyond the wall,. Where dark dreams burgeon,.
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The Common Rede: September 2013
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Monday, September 23, 2013. Bruckner No. 5 Coda - Eugen Jochum Live 1986. For the last minutes of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony from a live 1986 concert with Eugen Jochum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. No one but no one brings it home like this. Wow. PS: My favorite parts start after 1:10 in the video. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Friday, September 6, 2013.
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The Common Rede: December 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Though it has been a super-duper lazy blogging year for me (mainly because I've been teaching quite a few courses, editing, and heading out to poetry events), I want to wish you happy holidays before I hop in the shower and get ready for Christmas Eve guests. Christmas Eve is a fun time for our family and friends.
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The Common Rede: November 2013
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Thursday, November 28, 2013. Surface 2 and the Sharks. In addition to Windows Phone, I now have a Surface 2. I am writing to let you know that this device does what I need it to do and is in fact fun and useful. Here is a screenshot:. I have a set of Bluetooth speakers that work well with Surface 2. The Xbox Music app has a great interface. I use it...The n...
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The Common Rede: Early Clannad
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Thursday, August 14, 2014. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? This is a playlist of these half dozen early Clannad favs on YouTube:. 1 An tÚll (with Enya as lead). 2 Strayed Away (used here as music for an art project video - love this song! 3 dTigeas a Damhsa. 4 Ar a ghabhail 'n à chuain damh. 5 Mhaire Bruineall (again a video collage). 6 Níl Sé'n Lá.
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The Common Rede: March 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Monday, March 31, 2014. Carl Vine and Douglas Lilburn. Carl Vine's incredible Piano Sonata No. 1 is in this recording accompanied by an equally good second sonata and a number of other lively works, which can be purchased from the Australian Music Centre HERE. And Choral symphonies. and a really fine piano concerto. Download here (no password):. Only a hand...
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The Common Rede: June 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Saturday, June 14, 2014. Borodin Quartet - Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets. For Xbox Music - what a set! Has solid background on the history of each quartet. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Borodin Quartet - Shostakovich: Complete String Qu. Purdue Online Writing Lab. From Sheep to Alligators. The Old, Weird America. View my complete profile.
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The Common Rede: August 2014
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Here are brief reflections on various topics as well as links to out-of-print/hard-to-find music. Please feel free to leave a comment below. Welcome! Thursday, August 14, 2014. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? This is a playlist of these half dozen early Clannad favs on YouTube:. 1 An tÚll (with Enya as lead). 2 Strayed Away (used here as music for an art project video - love this song! 3 dTigeas a Damhsa. 4 Ar a ghabhail 'n à chuain damh. 5 Mhaire Bruineall (again a video collage). 6 Níl Sé'n Lá. Remember...
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