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My children are not normal. Not surprising; their parents aren't, either. Normalcy never struck me as an especially desirable state ...

I enjoyed HBO's "Game of Thrones" quite a lot, which naturally got me interested in the books by George R. R. Martin. One doe...

Rachmoninoff's Vespers make considerable use, as one might expect, of the word alliluya . The manner in which the word is set serves t...

I've recently been thinking a lot about musical expression, and specifically where it originates for a performer. It's an interesti...

So, it turns out that I need to put together a brief bio for myself in preparation for a concert I'm participating in. I did this befor...

So, it's been about a month of the Great Poulenc Study Session of Late 2010. Rehearsals are coming up. At the start of the process doc...

I'm working on learning Poulenc's Un sour de neige for a small ensemble performance thereof in March. It's a pretty cool piece...

My sister-in-law, Caitlyn, asked me for recipes to a variety of things. Note the use of past tense, which indicates only that a thing happe...

In reference to the enjoyable article "I Like Unicorn Because It's Unix" . I don't take any pleasure in claiming that the ...

I was pretty bummed to hear of Górecki's passing today. Courtney and I first encountered Górecki's popular third symphony in her sec...