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Is “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” a conservative anthem? < p style="">From the article: “The tension between different parts of human nature is evident in the music video. You hear a song about the nature of power and world domination, but you see images of people driving a cool vintage car, flying a glider, ...

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From 1978, John Adams’ Shaker Loops perforrmed at ChamberFest Cleveland.

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Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: A US police officer played a Taylor Swift song on his phone in a bid to prevent activists who were filming him uploading the video to YouTube. The video platform regularly removes videos that break music copyright rules. However, the officer's efforts were in v...

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Olga Scheps performs July from Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons”.

Move the shoulders, shake the arms!
And the noon wind breathes in the face! Aleksey Koltsov

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Remember when videos mattered?

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The Alan Parsons Project from 1980. Wednesday is pasta night all evening.  Try the ziti.  The wine?  Riunite Lambrusco.  Five plays for a dollar on the jukebox.

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My father opted to solve his high cholesterol with walking instead of medication. And because he was who he was, his walking program included detailed diagrams of the local shopping ...

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“You can take any random four bars from a Bach composition and spend at least a week studying them.”
< p style="">Pat Metheny

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You can never go wrong with Tom Petty on the jukebox.   By the way, our Monday special is the sirloin with fried shrimp - surf and turf.  Of course you can always take unlimited trips to the salad bar.  Try the cottage cheese.

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You’re only as good as your latest playlist.

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Happy Sunday.   “Table for five?  Yes, the brunch bar opens at 10:30.  Try the Hollandaise fountain.  And, certainly, that’s real Canadian bacon.  The jukebox is five plays for a dollar this morning.”

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It’s Happy Hour at the Cork ‘n Cleaver.  Five plays for a dollar on the jukebox.

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Summer:

I. Allegro non molto–
Under the heat of the burning summer sun,
Languish man and flock; the pine is parched.
The cuckoo finds its voice, and suddenly,
The turtledove and goldfinch sing.
A gentle breeze blows,
But suddenly, the north wind appears.
The shepherd weeps because, overhead,
Lies the fierc...

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Howe, Palmer, Wetton, and Downes.  Happy Friday.

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  The idea of real music being used in gaming tends to call major titles to mind. You might think first of Rock Band or Guitar Hero Live...

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This essay originally appeared in The Loop Magazine in 2013 and has been re-published here as originally written. I grew up in a musical family. My father’s been a pianist ...

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Box of Frogs from 1984.  “Back Where I Started.” < p style="">Let’s make it a great week.

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blackswaneuroparedux:

The true work of art is not beautiful in the way an animal, a flower or a stretch of countryside is beautiful. It is a consciously created thing, in which the human need for form triumphs over the randomness of objects. Our lives are fragmented and distracted: things start up in...

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So much to do. So little time. I am told that there are people who have never experienced the deep satisfaction of sorting through albums and discs strewn all over the floor in order to find and record that perfect next song.  Is this true?

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The Danish String Quartet plays Mozart’s arrangements of Fugues Nos. 2 and 4 from from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II.
< p style="">Your daily bread.

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“let the Well-Tempered Clavier be your daily bread.”
< p style="">Robert Schumann

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In the mail.

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