Sunday, March 22, 2026

In "one of the mightiest shouts of human aspiration ever made in music," is this the most beautiful music ever? Or this? Or this?

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Or, "FOUND" FREE MUSIC (SAMPLES), Part 2 In Part 1 , we enjoyed Seattle Chamber Music Society's gift of the 1st movement of ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

When a treasured piece of music simply falls into our laps, the least we can is to take proper note of it

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Or: "Found" free music! (Or at least free music samples . Not to worry, though -- we can fill them out!), Part 1 A Seattle...

Speaking of "one-two punches" (well, we will be in a moment), what do you think -- is Schubert D. 956 lurking in the background?

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WELCOME, VISITORS FROM " 'Found' free music! (Or at least free music samples . Not to worry, though -- we can fill them out!) ,...
Monday, December 15, 2025

"Why is Messiah so popular?"
asks Stephen J. Dubner (you know, the Freakonomics guy!)

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AND WE DO SOME MESSIAH LISTENING OF OUR OWN! "Why is Messiah so popular? I think it’s because what it is really about is ... hope. ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Could these three ballet 'starters' be more different?

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Sorry, but Part 2 of last week's "Chain of associations" post ("Retracing how 'Excerpt I' came into my head + th...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Chain of associations: Retracing how 'Excerpt I' came into my head + the odd path to 'Excerpt II' + a stab at explaining how it mattered

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I KNOW I'LL REGRET IT, BUT I WANT TO TRY TALKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK OF AS MUSICAL "AUTHENTICITY" (Which has nothing to do ...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Hear three themes get made over!
(A sneaky way to sneak a peek into an imagination like none other?)

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You'll probably know the composer(s?) who created our themes -- and why I've made a group out of these themes [ Partial revise, 7...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

(2) It's Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 100th birthday Wednesday!
And (1) We ask a panel of experts:
Can a flute do "somber"?

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WE'RE GOING TO ATTEMPT HERE SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE: THE BEGINNINGS OF TWO DIFFERENT POSTS HAPPY 100th, DIETRICH F.-D....
Monday, April 21, 2025

Schubert understood that life sometimes works out and other times . . . well, it doesn't

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PANICKY MONDAY 12:15pm UPDATE: OMG, after the heap of fixing and tinkering I've done, suddenly the audio clips aren't loading! I th...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

"Out-of-body" Beethoven, part 2: Is one of these three string-trio slow movements even more special than the other two?

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BEETHOVEN: String Trio in G, Op. 9, No. 1: ii. Adagio ma non tanto e cantabile (key: E major) Itzhak Perlman, violin; Pinchas Zukerman...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

"Out-of-body" Beethoven? We have three gifted samples (and then we'll add a couple more)

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"[These three] extraordinary slow movements in the key of E major . . . share an almost out-of-body quality, and it’s inspiring to wond...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The start of an all-too-quick remembrance of a special singer we'll be hearing from (too briefly) in an upcoming Mahler 3 post

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[(MORE) PROPER EXPLANATION TO COME, plus another whole installment (though not today for that!)] MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate (motet, Exu...