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But probably not the Jewish Carpenter you were thinking of. It’s the evening of Holy Saturday. Tomorrow is Easter. In churches all over the world, worshipers are gathering for the Vigil service—a service that lasts all night, comprising two of the Canonic
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Mar 26, 2016 at 09:17 PM PDT
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I’ve posted a lot of classical music diaries, but one that always gets huger and huger is the one I post around this time paying homage to women composers. Often discouraged from expressing their talent, many times silenced, some of the greatest composers
by zenbassoon
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on Tue Mar 08, 2016 at 06:27 PM PST
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Today is the Fourth of July, where fireworks are the preferred way to celebrate. Fireworks have been used for celebration since the Seventh Century, when they were invented in China.
It has been a ...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Jul 04, 2015 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Good evening, all.
It's been a long time since one of these came up, but I'll throw this one up because this is such a fun concept.
I found this blog post the other day with the most interesting--...
by zenbassoon
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on Thu Jan 15, 2015 at 06:29 PM PST
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So, every Christmas Eve for the past few years I've been posting this diary in various forms.
We all (I hope) enjoy the music of this Holiday Season. However, while the popular songs are nice to ...
by zenbassoon
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on Wed Dec 24, 2014 at 04:10 PM PST
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Today is the Fourth of July, where fireworks are the preferred way to celebrate. Fireworks have been used for celebration since the Seventh Century, when they were invented in China.
It has been a ...
by zenbassoon
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on Fri Jul 04, 2014 at 09:28 AM PDT
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This month I'm doing a special series of Thursday Classical Music diaries focused on female composers. Last week, I explored the music of Lili and Nadia Boulanger. This week, we're setting the Way-...
by zenbassoon
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on Thu Mar 13, 2014 at 05:30 PM PDT
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"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
~Nadia Boulanger
I am going ...
by zenbassoon
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on Thu Mar 06, 2014 at 06:56 PM PST
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Announcing a Birth:
In what is becoming a holiday tradition, I repost and add to my diary of Christmas music.
Of all the holidays celebrated in the world, no other is more associated with ...
by zenbassoon
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on Tue Dec 24, 2013 at 05:00 PM PST
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My birthday is this week. . . . and this is my birthday gift to DK.
I've wanted Herbert Howells' _Hymnus Paradisi_ to be my "next" classical music diary for about 2 years(!) now. What held me back ...
by Samer
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on Mon Sep 02, 2013 at 02:06 PM PDT
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Today is the Fourth of July, where fireworks are the preferred way to celebrate. Fireworks have been used for celebration since the Seventh Century, when they were invented in China.
It has been a ...
by zenbassoon
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on Thu Jul 04, 2013 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The day of the Newtown shootings, I posted a diary entitled [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/14/1170060/-Music-for-consolation Music for consolation].
I could have reposted that diary, or ...
by Samer
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on Sat Apr 20, 2013 at 09:50 PM PDT
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Here we have one of the most beautiful of Romantic overtures ever composed, and it was dedicated to A CAVE.
/Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa, one of the Hebrides Islands, off the west coast ...
by Dumbo
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on Thu Apr 18, 2013 at 09:31 PM PDT
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I'll continue my investigation of Ralph Vaughan Williams in two weeks. But since we're discussing Prop 8 and DOMA this week, I figured I should go with a composer who would have been affected by ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 04:30 PM PDT
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The music of Everett Titcomb (1884-1968) occupies a unique niche in the catalogue of sacred organ and choral works by 20th-century Anglican composers in the United States. His compositional voice ...
by commonmass
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on Thu Mar 14, 2013 at 06:29 PM PDT
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No Vaughan Williams tonight. This diary will indeed be a memorial to Van Cliburn, an American pianist who might have had a wonderful career had celebrity and the Cold War not found him exactly at ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 04:39 PM PST
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I scrapped a music diary for Top Comments last night because I needed to write more about my encounters with the Kos community this month and how that has helped in my bereavement process. This is ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Jan 24, 2013 at 04:38 PM PST
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In my most recent offering for this series, which was mostly about Debussy and La Mer , I included the first movement of the attempt by one of Debussy's British contemporaries to depict the same ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Feb 14, 2013 at 04:30 PM PST
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This is a continuation of last week's diary in order to showcase Debussy's orchestral work after 1900, and it will do that, but I can't talk about Debussy's most important piece without ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Jan 10, 2013 at 04:49 PM PST
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In my last diary I said I would begin an exploration of French impressionism in music with a diary on something by Claude Debussy. Well, this will be about Debussy, but it won't be about ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Jan 03, 2013 at 05:00 PM PST
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