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Preying On Songwriters, My Winter Vacation & Re-Gifting
I’ve been gone from this space (my blog) for way too long, so long that readers have scolded me and told me to get back to writing. Wow – that was very nice to hear. I didn’t want to be gone this long but there were substantive reasons for being out of cyberspace. For one,…
Jonathan Coulton, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Glee and Whose Baby Got Back?
I heard about the Jonathan Coulton v. Glee thing all day yesterday, last night and this morning. As usual the Hollywood Reporter account is the best. Coulton took Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back and transformed it into a much different composition. Coulton’s radical revision is in the same league of radical revision as The Residents’ The…
How I Hear It – Beethoven & Van Halen
My Nashville trip has been eventful and much longer than expected. My one week has turned into three. I need to get back north and as tempting as it is, I won’t quote or paraphrase Paul McCartney and “Get Back.” When I was learning classical music, and classical music theory (known to many as simply,…
A slew of bagpipes playing tangos in a forest – My Favorite Tangos (Part 1)
I’m loving my vacation in Nashville – my first Christmas not in Massachusetts. It’s been great to catch up with friends and former students (from here and New Jersey), hike Radnor Lake, see the new stuff in Nashville and launch into some business. All of my business is also fun, so I keep on “fun-ing,”…
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