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Category Archives: Melodies Linger On
HAPPY SONGS FOR DARK TIMES #1 – A Grand Hotel Extravaganza
Sometimes the right slice of music can be a sure fire happy picker upper. These are dark, soul depressing, body wearying times we live in. More than once I have been hearing people talk about how they feel sick in … Continue reading
MARCHING FOR OUR LIVES IN NYC
March 24 – March For Our Lives – Millions are on the streets in the USA. Here are some impressions from New York City. With appropriate and inappropriate songs that went through my head as Ed and I participated. … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged A Part Hate, AR-15, Central Park West, Cyndi Lauper, Deathly Hallows, Ed Elder, Foster the People, gun control, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Harry Potter, Imagine, John Lennon, March 24, March for our Lives, New York City, Nick Cave, NRA, O Children, Paul McCartney, Protest, Pumped Up Kicks, school shootings, The Beatles
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GETTING KINKY WITH JAKE AND WAYNE
Ed and I originally saw “Kinky Boots” when it was still in previews. We had treated each other with reciprocal Broadway tickets for Xmas, because we had high hopes for a Harvey Fierstein / Cyndi Lauper musical collaboration. The performance … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Al Hirschfeld, Armistead Maupin, Boys Keep Swinging, Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, Chita Rivera, Cyndi Lauper, Dick van Dyke, drag queen, Gesamtkunstwerk, Harvey Fierstein, House of David, Jake Shears, Kinky Boots, Lea DeLaria, LGBTQ, musical, Wayne Brady, Whose Line is it Anyway
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LIGHT ENTERS THE HOME – with a “light”hearted music quiz
I’ll have a picture with my puzzle, please Longtime visitors to my site will have noticed that I love sharing photos, under the “Two-fisted Touristing” rubric, of scenic vistas from around the world or places and events in New … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, The Speakeasy Chronicles, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Adam Guettel, Adam Lambert, Annie Lennox, Bernadette Peters, Billy Joel, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, climate change, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crystal Bowersox, Dance into the Light, Dim All the Lights, Donna Summer, Downtown Lights, Florence and the Machine, Ian McKellen, illumination, Kelli O'Hara, light, Light in the Loafers, light play, Long as I Can See the Light, Madonna, Mandy Patinkin, Mary Rodgers, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), No Light No Light, paw paw, Ray of Light, refraction, Richard Rodgers, Rothko, Scissor Sisters, Shadow and Light, shadow play, Shining Light, Sondheim, Speakeasy, sun tea, Sunday in the Park with George, The Blue Nile, The Light, The Light in the Piazza, Vincent Price, When Pigs Fly
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In the Name of Love on MLK Day
Today our nation commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The message and significance of Martin Luther King Jr. and what he represents for the aspirations of our country and the world weigh more heavily, sadly, today, than they … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News, The Teaching Artist
Tagged Berliner Luft, choir, chorus, Depeche Mode, I Have a Dream, In the Name of Love, Joy to the World, Martin Luther King Jr., Mas Que Nada, Miriam Makeba, MLK Day, Pata Pata, Paul Lincke, People are People, Pride, school, Sergio Mendes, third grade, Three Dog Night, U2
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NIGHT and SNOW in CENTRAL PARK
Secret Snow Song #1 (Can’t guess the song titles and artists? They can be found alphabetically tagged at the bottom of post, which should help.) Secret Night Song #1 Secret Night Song #2 … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 50 Words for Snow, A Single Man Soundtrack, Abel Korzeniowski, All Night, All Through the Night, Beyoncé, Billy Joel, Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack, Central Park, Cyndi Lauper, Ella Fitzgerald, Gustavo Santaolalla, horse drawn carriage, Kate Bush, music, night, night scene, photography, Snow, street lamp, Tchaikovsky, Through the Long Night, Waltz of the Snowflakes, winter
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, SAM, and then Play It Again
I took a Swoon Dive this weekend. I read André Aciman’s “Call Me By Your Name” while playing Sam Smith on endless shuffle. It was almost irresponsibly intoxicating. Say It First – Sam Smith I first heard about the Gay … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Literary Lyricism, Melodies Linger On
Tagged A Room with a View, André Aciman, Armie Hammer, bisexual, Burning, Call Me By Your Name, Community Bookstore, Gay, James Ivory, Lay Me Down, LGBTQ, Love Is A Losing Game, Luca Guadagnino, Lucy Honeychurch, Nirvana, Park Slope, Sam Smith, Say It First, Sundance, Timothée Chalomet
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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES’ BROOKLYN STOPOVER
In which Ed and I become Monarch Butterfly Paparazzi Ed and I returned from the gym to find a flock of Monarch butterflies flapping about outside our window. It appears that a particular vine wrapped around our garden fence was … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged brooklyn, Butterfly, Humming Chorus, Madame Butterfly, migration, Monarch, North America, Park Slope, Puccini
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THE COW BELL CANTATA – and a Splatterrific Intermezzo
Wild Emperors, Coxcombs and Horny Mountains in Tirol Plus Heidi-centric Encores! COW BELL CANTATA – CANTATA DA CAMPANA MUCCA registrato da maestro Daniello Ashkenasi 1. Movimento – Allegro con Forte Subito Encountered some musical cows on the slopes … Continue reading
Posted in Chamber Works, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alps, Austria, brass band, Cantata, Cow, Cow Bell, Frl. Menke, Hahnenkamm, Heidi, Hohe Berge, Intermezzo, Kitzbühel, Kitzbüheler Horn, Lebenberg, mastication, music, Neue Deutsche Welle, Platzkonzert, subito, Tirol, Wilde Kaiser
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AIDS Memorial, Greenwich Village, NYC
Breaths – The Flirtations Jesus to a Child – George Michael Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat Boy Blue – Cyndi Lauper
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Aids, Being Boring, Boy Bue, Breaths, Bronksi Beat, Bruce Springsteen, Chains of Love, Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Erasure, George Michael, GMHC, Greenwich Village, Jenny Holzer, Jesus to a Child, John Grant, Joseph Sonnabend, LGBT, LGBTQ, memorial, Neil Young, New York City, Pet Shop Boys, Philadelphia, Return to Oz, Scissor Sisters, Smalltown Boy, Song of Myself, Streets of Philadelphia, TC and Honeybear, The Flirtations, The Last Song, Walt Whitman
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SECRET GARDEN SONGS or The View From My Lawn Chair
Secret Garden Song #1 The other day I was lying in my lawn chair under the Japanese maple tree in my little back yard in Brooklyn and I got intrigued by the variety of colors and shapes and shades catching … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Elton John, Empty Garden, Garden, I Want You, Kate Bush, lawn chair, Maple Leaf Rag, music, nature, Octopus's Garden, photos, Safe in My Garden, Savage Garden, Scott Joplin, Secret Garden, The Beatles, The Garden of Allah, The Mamas and the Papas, Under the Ivy
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TOTAL ECLIPSE in PAINTED HILLS, OREGON
The Total Eclipse of August 21, 2017 As Seen from the Magnificent Painted Hills, Oregon With Eclipstastic Music! We left Redmond, Oregon, at 7:15am. Madras, just north of Redmond, would be smack in the path of totality, but we decided … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 2017, A-Ha, Another Day of Sun, August 21, Black Hole Sun, Blondie, Bonnie Tyler, C Moon, David Bowie, desert, Eclipse, Elton John, Fiddler on the Roof, George Michael, Good Day Sunshine, Good Morning Sarshine, Hair, Here Comes the Sun, In the Sun, Invisible Sun, Kate Bush, La La Land, Lea DeLaria, Let the Sunshine In, Man on the Moon, Moonage Daydream, occlusion, Oregon, Painted Hills, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, REM, Shoe Tree, Sole Tree, Soundgarden, Sun King, sunflowers, sunrise, sunset, The Beatles, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Great Gig in the Sky, The Police, The Sun Always Shines On TV, Total Eclipse of the Heart
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SONGS to RING IN the NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE
Remember the good old days of daily nightmares of nuclear armageddon? They’re back! Yippee! So let’s replay some golden oldies of the atomic age! Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged Alphaville, apocalypse, armageddon, Atomic, Blondie, Bomb, Breathing, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, Dear Leader, Dr. Strangelove, Forever Young, John Oliver, Kate Bush, Last Week Tonight, North Korea, Nuclear, Please Don't Nuke Us, Prokofiev, Russians, So Long Mom, Sting, Tom Lehrer, Ultravox, War, We Will All Go Together, We'll Meet Again, Weird Al Jankovic
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WATER LILIES (Pics and Tunes)
Testing out the new camera at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Lily #1 (for details on the “Lily” songs, check on the “tags” at the bottom of the post) Lily #2
