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22 December 1808

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Public events sometimes exceed the real time shared experience to take on in retrospect a certain transcendent quality. As the event subsequently becomes elevated to an iconic cultural status, the number of people who actually were “there” and their memories of it, are exceeded by the ever larger group of people who over time tie the […]... Read More
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Good People All, This Christmas Time…

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As Christmas Day approaches, our post modern world argues about whether the lyrics of a holiday classic must be censured to remove the potentially ‘hurtful’ lyrics from contributing to unsafe environments.  If you are not familiar with the specific controversial song, you might have thought the offended class were referring to the callus injury  of […]... Read More
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Beethoven’s Glorious Ninth

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Ludwig Von Beethoven died in 1827, likely not hearing reflected in performance a single note of his composed music in the last 13 or so years of his life.  An all occlusive deafness stole any semblance other than vibration of the complex sound paintings he was continuing to create, with nothing but his memory of […]... Read More
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The Power and Duality of Richard Wagner

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We are often called on these pages to speak of genius.  The story of western civilization is replete with epic personalities and talents.  The accomplishments in art, music, literature, philosophy and science often soar to heights that elevate humankind to a special, almost immortal transcendency.  But inevitably, the source of such genius is at base […]... Read More
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An American Original – Glenn Campbell

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The current over enhanced and emotion deadened noise that passes for modern American popular music has separated us from the power that once was evoked from the marriage of lyric, voice, and musicianship that represented the golden age of music performance and recording.  Self absorbed and over engineered performers play one generic tome after another, […]... Read More
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George Frideric’s Masterpiece

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  Every composer from Bach to Berlin has likely faced it.  After a significant period of adulation related to a reputation for “hits” that speak to your generation’s audience, you begin to become predictable and have your reputation tied to a form of music that later audiences find old hat and “yesterday’s news”.  The adulation […]... Read More