7th
December
2021
If your news is local, this matters: a local school is closed this week, due to infection. Tomorrow, four more will close as a precautionary measure. That doesn’t leave much wiggle room, in a small area like ours. We’ve been really fortunate (lucky?) until now, but this says that the runup to the holidays just took a turn for the worse.
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26th
November
2021
Anyone who has passed through the mill of musical education will understand where I’m coming from. Yes, a teacher is a good thing. No, a teacher cannot take all the praise for someone who moves beyond the basics of study on a given instrument. You can’t teach everything. Now, what set that off?
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25th
November
2021
Those endless Black Friday ads, which should end after this week, remind me that there are many things I could have in my home that are impractical but novel. Things I don’t actually own, yet. I’m going to focus on a particular range of items that might interest me.
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posted in music |
6th
November
2021
At around midnight, in the various time zones worldwide, a new record album was released. CD, streaming, whatever your mode. By breakfast, the various songs were already charting at #1 (is the Top Forth still a “thing”?) And as the fan base came wake, my children weren’t even invited to the hysteria. You see, after forty years, ABBA is back!
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26th
October
2021
On my timeline, a photo of a rock band with a familiar name. In fact, the guitar player was the band leader, back when they performed at my high school, a full half-century ago. I will squash the name, to protect the aged. But here’s the thing; since we don’t get much live music nowadays (blame it on the pandemic, or the fulgurant cost of tickets, or whatever). The memories of the bands we did see hold a special niche in the brain.
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posted in history, music |
12th
October
2021
Every day, I assume, we lose a musician to death. I don’t need a list. I don’t need one of those “we remember” sequences on an award show. We just do.
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11th
October
2021
I’m going to play a little game here. Musical. Just for fun. Imagine a song. Go ahead, I’m not judgemental. Perhaps you really vibe to Happy Birthday.
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10th
October
2021
They were different times, apparently. Right now, the vaccine question rears huge on the social horizon. In certain areas, you are “for” or “against”. No middone (or common) ground. Now, I’ve been alive long enough to have received a number of important inoculations. And for the life of me (because, due to those inoculations, I have life).
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23rd
September
2021
Did you hear my new song? Of course you didn’t. That refers to a possible future event, and we are not there, yet. Somewhere, on my bucket list, is a great musical moment. Involving me. And when the gears of progress are turning ever-so-slowly, it might take a while before I become famous.
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16th
September
2021
How did people exist (musically) before YouTube? I’m old enough to remember how grim things were.
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