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Something different, only related to music in that art is related to life:
Right now, it’s not just natural, it’s necessary that we’re all looking at what’s wrong in the world. As we try to take intelligent action with respect to the financial crisis, as we formulate our opinions regarding the upcoming elections, we have to [...]

Can’t help but think of the Gulf coast people who are under threat today. It looks like things are much better prepared and people, both government and citizens, are taking what precautions they can. But I’m putting this video here in the superstitious hope of keeping images like this in the past:

You need to a [...]

Having become a total ‘tube-head over the past few years, I’ve seen a lot of amateur video. Some of it is good because it’s just decent quality capture of a good performance, but not all that much of it is really creatively crafted. Not surprising - it ain’t easy! But there is a fair amount [...]

Last week, several unrelated events occured that got me wondering: what makes a song, a song. That is, when is that song, this song.
Event 1:
First, a singer hired to sing the National Anthem at the Denver state of the city address, sang the tune, but substituted the words to the hymn “Lift Every Voice and [...]

a Modern Man

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He was the first comedian whose name I knew, because my Mom would stop everything when he came on. Nobody dug in like he did. Most of his stuff can’t be embedded, but it’s worth digging back through again yourself. RIP.

“I think that the time when music could change the world is past, I think it would be very naive to think that in this day and age. .. I think the world today is a different place, and that it’s time for science and physics and spirituality to make a difference in this world [...]

Oliver Sacks, the sooper-dooper famous neurologist—you know, the guy from Awakenings—has written a new book on music and the brain, called Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. It will be published in October.
As you might have guessed from my past posts on this blog, the topic of music and the brain is right up [...]