Category Archive: music

09 Sep

The Big Banana

The Big Banana

Tonight, on the waterfront, the Wellington Ukulele Orchestra were in fine form. For sheer musical meaty goodness it’s very, very hard to beat them. I …

 
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05 Jan

Blank canvas

Blank canvas

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do …

 
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22 Aug

356 – Orpheus strikes Bach

356 – Orpheus strikes Bach

Concert tonight – Bach’s B-Minor Mass, delivered with some conviction by the Orpheus Choir. I find it kind of odd to attend concerts live when …

 
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15 Jul

318 – Music for a found harmonium

318 – Music for a found harmonium

I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random… — Simon Jeffes I love that song! I love that Cafe! …

 
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26 Jan

148 – Are you lonesome tonight

148 – Are you lonesome tonight

Are you lonesome tonight Do you miss me tonight Are you sorry we drifted apart Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day When I kissed you and …

 
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19 Dec

110 – Ten Guitars

110 – Ten Guitars

I listened. I started to sing along. I had to move. I was taken back to the days when I was supposedly young and carefree. …

 
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12 Dec

103 – Can you feel it?

103 – Can you feel it?

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you …

 
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07 Dec

098 – Character skirts

098 – Character skirts

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. – Agnes De Mille The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) examination syllabus consists of …

 
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28 Nov

089 – De-talented

089 – De-talented

It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-lovely. – Cole Porter, De-Lovely The promise – a few hours of wonderful music, an evening with special friends, some timeout from …

 
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28 Nov

089 – Gift of the amateur

089 – Gift of the amateur

Music, after all, is the background score to our lives, not merely surviving in our memory banks long after so many of our seemingly stronger …

 
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