Green Shoots!
Mud Season!
NaBloPoMo Day 14!
Woo hoo! Miss Music Nerd officially passed the 5000-hit mark a coupla weeks ago, and is now closing in on 6000! So I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has stumbled upon my little corner of cyberspace. I hope you’ll keep coming back, and tell your friends!
And, um, [...]
Filed under: church music, humor, jazz, music | Tagged: Organ | No Comments »
NaBloPoMo Day 5! (Happy Cinco de Mayo! )
It probably won’t come as a surprise that I have a musical cat. His name is Piccolo, after all, and he was raised in a musical household. I knew someone once who claimed that she could not practice her guitar or recorder because her kitties couldn’t tolerate [...]
Filed under: 20th century, Piccolo, classical, composition, contemporary classical, contemporary classical music, contemporary music, humor, music, new music | Tagged: Cats, Free Jazz, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Pierre Boulez, Theremin | 1 Comment »
NaBloPoMo Day 2!
It’s an enduring cultural phenomenon — a rite of passage, even. If you’ve ever been a) a teenager or 2) a middle-aged relative of a teenager, you’re probably familiar with some version of the following interpersonal transaction (if you’re lucky, you’ve been on both sides of it!):
“Turn down that cat-alley moaning! You call [...]
Filed under: 20th century, classical, humor, rock | Tagged: Bruce Springsteen, Camina Burana, Carl Orff, Gavin Edwards, Jon Carroll, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, mondegreen, Sylvia Wright | 6 Comments »
Okay, so spring is technically over a month old, but the Upper-Mid-West, or Western-Northeast, or whatever you call the region where I currently reside, was slow to get the memo. We crawled gingerly out of our winter funk, only to get a coupla final cold blasts in our faces. But we persevere, and the daytime [...]
Filed under: 20th century, 30 Days, classical, holidays, humor, music, music & politics, musical theater | Tagged: May Day, Beltane, The Internationale, Billy Bragg, Camelot, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Antonio Vivaldi | 2 Comments »
WARNING: Tricks are for kids, but these videos are for grown-ups who aren’t easily offended. If you don’t like to work blue, you might want to hold out for my next, clean post!
File this under Things I Wish I’d Thought of First… composer Igor Keller has spun Bill O’Reilly’s infamous Falafel Phone Call [...]
Filed under: classical, composition, humor | Tagged: Bill O'Reilly, Igor Keller | 1 Comment »
