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Category Archives: Music

Woke Music: What Do We Stand To Lose?

November 27, 2022

I was always a musician. As a child, I could hear a melody and reproduce it on the piano, though …

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Julliard: In The Blink Of An Equitable Eye

June 27, 2021

Those of us paying attention understand a college degree is no longer imbued with the prestige it once enjoyed.  To …

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Barbarians At The Scores

April 4, 2021

As regular readers know, math is racist.  We also know music theory—the academic study of the nature, construction, methodology and …

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Band Tents?!

March 2, 2021

In 1969, Woody Allen wrote and starred in Take The Money And Run.  He played Virgil Starkwell, an inept criminal.  …

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Christmas Presents, 2020

December 25, 2020

I normally post each day’s article around 1700 the previous evening.  But I have some final Christmas gifts for you, …

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Woke Beethoven: Hastening Civilization’s Demise

September 18, 2020

Ludwig van Beethoven is remembered in the public imagination as one of the greatest composers of all time, a wild-haired, …

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Symphony Orchestras: The Diversity Of Poverty

July 24, 2020

As regular readers know, I’m a classically trained musician.  My primary instrument is my voice.  I’m among the few, the …

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Music: Lessons From The Sixties

March 3, 2018

I believe it was Robin Williams–God rest his soul–who once quipped: “If you remember the sixties, you weren’t really there.” …

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The Gillette Chamber Singers: Going Home

June 7, 2017

‘It is an honour that I dream not of.’ Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3 In that …

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How Can We Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?

May 29, 2017

Thirty years ago, gentle readers, I founded a professional–in quality, not pay–auditioned choir in Gillette, WY: The Gillette Chamber Singers. …

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Mariah Carey: Performer?

January 5, 2017

By now, much of the civilized world, even if unaware of existential threats to the survival of the species, has …

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Merry Christmas Darling

December 21, 2016

Greeting cards have all been sent The Christmas rush is through But I still have a wish to make A …

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The Life And Times Of A Classical Singer

December 1, 2015

“Music was his life, it was not his livelihood, and it made him feel so happy, it made him feel …

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The Morality of Classical Music

April 7, 2015

My friend Bookworm has often done me the honor of linking my writings, and I return the favor whenever possible, …

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