Category Archives: music

Stürmish Bewegt

Posted on July 14, 2010 by whitecrispprotectivecap

Blazing across southern South Dakota on I-90, I wanted to summarize, for posterior’s sake on my Tascam audio recorder, our mid-day thoughts on listening to Mahler’s 9th — and Mahler’s everything else too. With the Tascam in my one hand, … Continue reading →

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Mahler

Posted on July 2, 2010 by patchunc

Yesterday as we were describing the proposed itinerary to folks we had just met, one of them asked what the theme song for the trip was. I replied, “Mahler.” He asked which piece, and I said “the complete symphonies.” Then … Continue reading →

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What’s new in Elvis

Posted on July 1, 2010 by patchunc

K-Os sent this clip from Yahoo News announcing that Elvis archivists have found 3 new photos of Elvis from his younger days. It will be displayed at Graceland while we’re there: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_en_ot/us_elvis_new_photos

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The Soundtrack

Posted on June 30, 2010 by whitecrispprotectivecap

K-Os said we need to listen to a complete boxed set of something. We talked about it. He has several complete boxed sets, including all the works of Franz Liszt which, really, takes up a box of boxed sets. There’s … Continue reading →

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