Originally published April 27, 2009. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025 Update: It’s a whole different world now compared to when I published this. The YouTube channel is still there. The Twitter handle is still there on “X”, but that’s a different beast now. And the Facebook page is…
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Obituary: Maurice Jarre
Originally published April 24, 2009. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025 I’m behind in my reading so I just found today that the Economist ran a nice obituary for Maurice Jarre. I didn’t know that Jarre didn’t start his music education until he was 16: it’s always good to…
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All I Needed to Know about Music I Learned from Bugs Bunny!
Originally published April 16, 2009. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025 I’ve come to realize that when I was a kid, an important, defining “or” is “Bugs Bunny/Loony Tunes” or “Mickey Mouse/Disney”, as in “which one did you like”. On a side note, another important one of these is…
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Opera Crash Course
Originally published April 6, 2009. Updated, revised and republished March 21, 2025 Update: It is a rare and wonderful thing these days to find that something you found online nearly sixteen years ago is STILL available. It’s an even more rare and wonderful thing to find that the person that…
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Let’s take it from the top
Originally published April 4, 2009, revised and republished February 7, 2025 This is the first post in what I hope will be an interesting and educational project: an amateur music blog. My model is the myriad of amateur food blogs that are out there. If people without formal culinary training…