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The Transcontinental: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014. This blog still exists. It seems odd to think that this blog has been around for 7 years, limping along, a post here and there, lately reflecting not much more than a profound desire to avoid writing. Of course we know why- there's a dissertation to be written! In any event, writing at all has proven difficult. And indeed, when one looks across the infinite horizon of the virtual landscape, there are moribund blogs everywhere. So maybe it isn't just me. I call it the "Under...
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The Transcontinental: A blast from the past!
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Friday, March 28, 2014. A blast from the past! Maybe because it's near my birthday, and I'm feeling both old and nostalgic, but this post. From Metafilter about being a tuba player is a nice reminder of both why I loved playing the tuba but also why I gave it up. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Josquin Masses and Motets. Missa Et ecce terrae motus. Lutoslawski Symphony no. 1. Nielsen Symphonies 1 and 6. Nielsen Symphonies 2 and 5. There was an error in this gadget. A blast from the past!
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The Transcontinental: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. A blast from the past! Maybe because it's near my birthday, and I'm feeling both old and nostalgic, but this post. From Metafilter about being a tuba player is a nice reminder of both why I loved playing the tuba but also why I gave it up. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Josquin Masses and Motets. Missa Et ecce terrae motus. Lutoslawski Symphony no. 1. Nielsen Symphonies 1 and 6. Nielsen Symphonies 2 and 5. There was an error in this gadget. A blast from the past!
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The Transcontinental: Running is Cheap
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Friday, November 08, 2013. I clicked on this. Expecting to be angered (is that not that the main reason we read anything on the Internet? But it instead confirmed something I wish I'd said out loud a long time ago! A long time ago, I wrote a nice post. About getting back into running. Unfortunately, right after that post, I injured myself, or aggravated some long-term problem in my knee, or something, which put me off running for long time. This was something I remember very clearly after I ran that race...
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The Transcontinental: November 2014
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Saturday, November 08, 2014. Glenn Gould - Off the Record/On the Record. I discovered yesterday that the National Film Board has made its 1959 documentary about Glenn Gould available on YouTube. The first part is entitled Glenn Gould - Off the Record/On the Record. I am amazed that in all the years I've been writing on this blog this is only the second time I've ever mentioned Gould. Is my favourite opera has a lot to do with Gould's advocacy of Strauss as a composer. These documentaries are also a wonde...
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The Transcontinental: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. I know I never write on this stupid blog anymore, but man, I really felt this. He was 88, so it's not as though there was some tragedy to this, but he was probably one of the most distinct and emotionally powerful opera singers ever, and the fact that he is no longer around is really sad. Something I spent listening to last year, over and over, was his singing of ". From Act II of Tristan und Isolde. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Josquin Masses and Motets.
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The Transcontinental: November 2013
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Friday, November 08, 2013. I clicked on this. Expecting to be angered (is that not that the main reason we read anything on the Internet? But it instead confirmed something I wish I'd said out loud a long time ago! A long time ago, I wrote a nice post. About getting back into running. Unfortunately, right after that post, I injured myself, or aggravated some long-term problem in my knee, or something, which put me off running for long time. This was something I remember very clearly after I ran that race...
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The Transcontinental: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Our long civic nightmare is over - or is it? I was out over the weekend, having drinks (probably too many of them) but attempting to explain why there's a large part of me that is, for lack of a better word, often ashamed to be a Canadian right now. By reflect, I mean that nearly half of voters in the last civic election voted for Rob Ford, knowing full well who he was and what he stood for. And he delivered on his "mandate". And then they all would have to play by the governme...
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The Transcontinental: An Admission
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Thursday, February 13, 2014. I'm rather busy right now. Thats a bit of an understatement. 12:21 PM, February 18, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Josquin Masses and Motets. Missa Et ecce terrae motus. Lutoslawski Symphony no. 1. Nielsen Symphonies 1 and 6. Nielsen Symphonies 2 and 5. There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. Google Searches Where the Transcontinental is Tops! Classical music snobs and vienna". Friends, Countrymen, Unknown Quantities. Crawl Across the Ocean.
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The Transcontinental: Glenn Gould - Off the Record/On the Record
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Saturday, November 08, 2014. Glenn Gould - Off the Record/On the Record. I discovered yesterday that the National Film Board has made its 1959 documentary about Glenn Gould available on YouTube. The first part is entitled Glenn Gould - Off the Record/On the Record. I am amazed that in all the years I've been writing on this blog this is only the second time I've ever mentioned Gould. Is my favourite opera has a lot to do with Gould's advocacy of Strauss as a composer. These documentaries are also a wonde...