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Posted on September 1, 2019

The eyes have it: Erika Miklósa performing the Queen of the Night Aria (“Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen”) from “The Magic Flute”

The Hungarian coloratura soprano Erika Miklósa is here in a concert performance of the “Queen of the Night” aria from The Magic Flute – a concert performance it may be,…

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Posted on August 31, 2019

The 11 Most Annoying Types of Pianists

I LOLed hugely at this. Especially the “show-off”, the “overpassionate” and “too many facial expressions”

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Posted on August 28, 2019

Frank La Rocca: A contemporary composer on the countercultural duty of sacred music

Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…

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Posted on August 22, 2019

For Feast of the Queenship of Mary: Salve Regina, sung by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

For a previous post featuring these monks, see here.

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Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

Anonymous’ Greatest Hits (well, on Spotify)

Whoever the official titleholder is, Spotify’s most prolific artist must surely be the dauntingly productive Various Artists, who emerges with a slew of new compilations and soundtracks and such every…

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Posted on July 15, 2019

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence

Wittgenstein’s closing proposition of the Tractatus in musical form:

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Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

When Toby Keith eased Merle Haggard’s burdens

Via the Unfinished Pyramid blog, I came across this touching story about the country singer Toby Keith and #AprilCountry outlaw fave Merle Haggard: “It was Super Bowl weekend. Merle had…

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Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

Want long life? Be Bond, sing about Bond, star with Julie Andrews, be Julie Andrews, appear with Ray Harryhausen

Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…

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