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MANHATTAN BRIDGE and Associates
A Grab Bag of Bridge Photos, Bridge Songs and Bridge Memories. Art Garfunkel lays himself down like a bridge: Bridge Memory #1 (Spies and Walls) Adele’s love ain’t water under the bridge:
Posted in Beginnings, Chamber Works, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Adele, Blondie, Bridge, Bridge of Spies, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Fellowship of the Ring, Glee, Kate Bush, Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, Pantanal, photos, Simon and Garfunkel, Spreewald, Stevie Wonder
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Subway Motion Animation
Look at the video below. This sight thrills me every time I am on a Brooklyn subway train heading towards the Manhattan bridge. I think of it as Subway Motion Animation: The video clip above was taken … Continue reading
HAPPY PRIDE DAY – One Year to the Day Our Day Had Come
Happy Pride Day, everybody. Today is the Last Sunday in June, when New York City commemorates the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement and the 1969 Stonewall riots with our Pride Parade and Festivities. Ed and I will be … Continue reading
NafC Classic: 5 X FUN with LUDWIG’S 5th
Let’s have some fun with Beethoven! Specifically the 1st movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, easily the most famous piece of classical music in the world. The indelible Duh Duh Duh DAH motif that opens and shapes the movement may … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, The Teaching Artist
Tagged 4th grade, A Fifth of Beethoven, Beethoven, classical music, comedy, Darren Chris, ELO, Glee, Opera, Peter Schickele, Robin Thicke, sampling, Walter Murphy
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CYNDI LAUPER Just Wants to Have Lots and Lots of Fun (and so do many guys)
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is the song that put Cyndi Lauper on the scene and to this day is the song she is most identified with, even though she has had many other hit songs since, recorded dance … Continue reading
HOW MANY WAYS CAN ONE BE A CREEP? And does it ever stop being so “fuckin’ special”?
Who could have imagined that Radiohead’s “Creep”, that dark, spiky, idiosyncratic paean to self-loathing, would become one of the most covered rock songs from the 1990’s? It’s not only recorded by a huge variety of artists, but also covered in … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathustra, alternative rock, American Idol, Australian Idol, Chrissie Hynde, cover versions, Creep, Daniela Andrade, Dean Geyer, Glee, Haley Reinhart, Jazz, Jena Irene, Karen Souza, Kimberly Nichole, Lea Michele, Postmodern Jukebox, Pretenders, Radiohead, Richard Cheese, Scott Bradlee, The Voice
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OUR DAY HAS COME – a personal marriage story with musical accompaniment
Ed and I got married in 1998. And again in 2011. Then our marriage got federally augmented in 2013. And now finally in 2015 the state of our union will be fully recognized in every state of the Union. It’s … Continue reading
5 X FUN with LUDWIG’S 5th
Let’s have some fun with Beethoven! Specifically the 1st movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, easily the most famous piece of classical music in the world. The indelible Duh Duh Duh DAH motif that opens and shapes the movement may … Continue reading
Posted in Melodies Linger On, The Teaching Artist
Tagged 4th grade, A Fifth of Beethoven, Beethoven, classical music, comedy, Darren Chris, ELO, Glee, Opera, Peter Schickele, Robin Thicke, sampling, Symphony, Walter Murphy
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Five Reasons to be GLEE-ful!
Ed and I watched every episode of Glee. We remained loyal throughout its wild upswings and downturns in popularity and storytelling. Being of a generation that grew up with few television shows of a musical nature to turn to, and … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On
Tagged Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith, Darren Chris, Glee, Jump, Lea Michele, LGBT, Mash-up, Naya Rivera, New York, Teenage Dream, transgender, Whitney Houston
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