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Here is song number forty-seven from the Big Book of Classical Music. It is an excerpt from Symphony No. 2 in C Minor by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): For more about the composer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.2(Mahler)
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A while back I posted a song called On Green Dolphin Street. That version wasn’t, how should I put this, very good? It had no right being out in the world. So I re-did it just for you. You know who you are. That reminds me of the time someone asked me if I was…
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Song Number 40 in our summer countdown of classical music is in the books. This is an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. According to https://petipasociety.com/the-sleeping-beauty: The Sleeping Beauty Waltz was the first collaboration of Marius Petipa and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Although Tchaikovsky’s first ballet Swan Lake had not been the success he had hoped for, it did…
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Here is a song you’re sure to rememberIt came out 3 months before SeptemberWay back in Nineteen Sixty-SevenMy cousin Fred was just eleven The Beatles were hot and could do no wrongThey let us all grow our hair longThey changed the world, you know the restI think I like this song the best
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Some people say “I’m a dog person.” Others say “I’m a cat person.” Well I am an animal person. I love them all! But is there anything more beautiful than a cat? I think not.
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Hello my faithful readers. I hope you are all well.Here is a work in progress of a song we all know and love.
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Question: What do you call a moustache worn by someone with a runny nose? Answer: A Flu Manchu
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Everyone knows that 3 x 7 is 21, but how many people know what 333 x 777 is, without using a calculator? (It is 258,741 by the way.) If you double that number you get 517,482. Do you notice anything similar about those two numbers? They have the same digits. And I have yet to…
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Analysis of The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paulby Bernardo Daddi, in Florence, Italy, 1335 It’s another painting with the Virgin MaryAnd she’s with two Saints, and one is hairyIt’s done very well, this fact is trueAnd the Virgin Mary is wearing blue Each of them have different posesI wonder how they feel…
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The response to last week’s Twilight Zone episode summary in poem form was astounding! With that, here is a poem about another episode called “Dead Man’s Shoes.” A homeless man who lives aloneAnd can’t afford to use a phoneIs changed one night, but not by boozeWhen he finds a pair of magic shoes The shoes…
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Ludwig’s music is incredibleAnd Wolfgang’s never missedFranz’s music is almost edibleBoth of them, Schubert and Lizst Peter Ilyad’s music is capriciousAnd hardly ever arbitraryJohan Sebastian still can reach usJust ask my cousin Larry To tell the truth, I have three cousinsBut not one is named LarryThey spend the summer in the HamptonsAnd get to work by…
