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HAPPY SONGS FOR DARK TIMES #4: The “HAPPY” Happy Songs
If I was hopeful that the dark times might brighten after the Orange Menace was evicted by the people, well, those hopes look if not dashed, surely bruised and battered on the floor. Homegrown fascism and bigotry have only more … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexis Jordan, Barbra Streisand, Beatles, Ben Selvin and the Crooners, Bill Irwin, Billie Eilish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bobby McFerrin, Bye Bye Birdie, Dick van Dyke, Ding Dong, Don't Worry Be Happy, Ed Sullivan, Get Happy, Happiness, happy, Happy Days Are Here Again, Happy Talk, Happy Together, Humpe Humpe, I Could Be Happy With You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, I'm So Happy Just To Dance With You, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Kid Cudi, Lana del Rey, Life's a Happy Song, Norah Jones, Olivia Rodrigo, Pharrell Williams, Put On a Happy Face, Robin Williams, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Taylor Swift, Tears for Fears, The Boyfriend, The King and I, The Muppets, The Turtles
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SKY MUSIC PUZZLE
Some views out the window on our flight home from Wisconsin will accompany this music quiz (as ever the answers are tucked within the tags below). Sky Music Query #1: Who sings this song called “Big Sky”? … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Piece of Sky, Across the Universe, Adele, Annie Lennox, Barbra Streisand, Beecake, Big Sky, Billy Boyd, Blue Sky Paradise, Bono, Brian D'Arcy James, Cirque de Soleil, Cirque du Soleil, Cloud Atlas, Cloudbusting, Clouds, Donald Sutherland, ELO, Elton John, Eye in the Sky, Giants in the Sky, Helen Mirren, Into the Woods, Jake Shears, Julie Taymor, Kate Bush, Love, Lucy in the Sky with Diamons, Madonna, Merry, Meteorological Mix, Mr. Blue Sky, Once, photography, Pink Floyd, Ray of Light, Scissor Sisters, sky, Sky Fits Heaven, Skyfall, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, The Dark Side of the Moon, Yentl, Zach Sobiech
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BACKYARD BEAUTIES’ Flower Music Quiz
Time for another Notes from a Composer music quiz! Today’s theme: Flowers! Flower Music Query #1: We’ll start easy. You’ve heard this classical piece before. Maybe even know it’s called the Flower Duet. Do you know the name … Continue reading →
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Tagged backyard, Barbra Streisand, brooklyn, buds, Fading Like a Flower, Flower Duet, Flower of the Mountain, flowers, Flowers on the Wall, hyacynth, James Joyce, Kate Bush, Lakme, Neil Diamond, photography, Pulp Fiction, Roxette, San Francisco, Sweden, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, The Sensual World, The Statler Brothers, Tulips, Ulysses, Waltz of the Flowers, You Don't Bring Me Flowers
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IT’S A PUZZLEMENT
One of Ed’s Christmas gifts to me was three puzzles made out of photos he had taken. This was for one of our traditional “little” gifts we give each other, and Ed boasted of a Groupon offer that allowed him … Continue reading →
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
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Tagged A Puzzlement, Barbra Streisand, Beast of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Botatic Garden, Bridge Troll, brooklyn, Chihuly, custom made, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Romer, Ed Elder, Fremont Troll, Garden and Glass, I Fall to Pieces, Jewel, Mandy Patinkin, Patsy Cline, photo puzzle, photos, Pieces of You, Putting it Together, Puzzle, Seattle, selfie, Sunday in the Park with George, The Broadway Album, The King and I, The Smallest Piece, Yul Brynner
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RETURN OF THE ROSES
I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden. But we can visit one together just up the road. And June is the time it bursts in massive, colorful bloom every year. Last year’s visit to the Brooklyn … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbra Streisand, Beth Ditto, Bette Midler, Blondie, Botanical Garden, brooklyn, Edit Piaf, Glee, I never promised you a rose garden, James Horner, Khachaturian, La Vie en Rose, Poison, Rose, Rose Garden, Rose's Turn, Seal, Second Hand Rose, Spring, sun dial, The Fisher King, Titantic
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Putting it Together and Together and Together and Together and Together
LINK TO YOUTUBE VIDEO OF PUTTING IT TOGETHER in ORIGINAL BROADWAY PRODUCTION Art isn’t easy. Any way you look at it. After seeing the current revival of “Sunday in the Park with George” and enjoying another live performance of its … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema Scope, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On
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Tagged Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Broadway, Carol Burnett, jingle, lyrics, MAC Awards, Mandy Patinkin, Putting it Together, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, The Broadway Album, Xerox
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NEW YORK NEW YORK in Pieces (of Song and Puzzle)
Let’s celebrate New York, New York in pieces! Musical pieces! Jigsaw puzzle pieces! The first song must be New York, New York of course! What, you thought It’d be Old Blue Eyes’ New York New York? No worries, I won’t … Continue reading →
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Tagged 4D, 9/11, Alicia Keys, Barbra Streisand, Bernstein, Billy Joel, Central Park, Chrysler Building, Citicorp, Comden & Green, Don Henley, Ebb, Empire State Building, Frank Sinatra, Glee, Jay Z, Kander, Liza Minnelli, Madison Square Garden, Madonna, Martin Scorcese, New York City, New York New York, On the Town, Pennsyvania Station, Puzzle, Robert De Niro, Rockefeller Center, Sting, The Song of Job, Time Warner Building, United Nations Building, World Trade Center
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Speak Low, Phoenix, Speak Low…
I attended a matinee screening of the German movie “Phoenix”. As the movie began and the screen was still black, I heard a lone upright bass picking out two notes a major sixth apart, followed by four more notes bounding … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbra Streisand, Billie Holiday, Christian Petzold, Donna Murphy, Eartha Kitt, Frank Sinatra, Hitchcock, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, LoveMusik, Michael Cerveris, Nina Hoss, Norah Jones, Ogden Nash, Phoenix, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sarah Vaughan, Speak Low, Tony Bennett, Vertigo
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