Christmas
December 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Food, Home |
Not much to write today, except Merry Christmas to all.
Four Madrigals for Brass Quintet
December 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
Over the summer I found a set of five part books in the SHU library for madrigals by the English composer Henry Lichfield. As a project I took the original mensural notation and turned it into modern notation for brass quintet. After the jump you can download a zip file of the whole package.
Maybe If They Read It…
December 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
Don’t ask why, but I’ve gotten myself on a couple of GOP e-mail lists. Sometimes it’s amusing to get the disinformation right from the horse’s mouth. Today’s nonsense concerns the long-departed prospect for government-run healthcare.
Sign of the Times
December 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |
Saw this one at Best Buy tonight. Admittedly it’s a little surprising they have a book department at all, and it was tempting to re-arrange the stock to make it even better than it was.

Brooklyn Symphony This Sunday
December 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
December 20 at 3 p.m. A proram of English music, with works by Vaughan Williams, Walton and Sullivan. At St. Ann’s Church at 157 Montague Street (at Clinton St.), right above the subway. Come on down!
Wait A Minute
December 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
Every now and again I get the opportunity to read The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page (a.k.a., The Funny Pages), where one can almost always find wonderful nuggets of disinformation and illogic. Here’s today’s, from “The Audacity of Debt,” in which the author compares the recent increases in the U.S. budget deficit to those wrought [...]
Al Franken (D-Reality)
December 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |
Senator Al lays into the purveyors of fiction.
Holiday Concert Doubleheader
December 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |
Sunday, December 13, holds in store back-to-back holiday concerts for your listening pleasure here in Maplewood and South Orange, NJ.
20 Degrees, Crystalline
December 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |
Here in Poughkeepsie, NY, where I’m at a training class. The views of the Hudson River and the mountains on the other side make it seem less frigid.












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