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Monday Music: Pentatonix covers Mad World
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Monday Music: Tears for Fears, Call Me Mellow
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Monday Music: Lana Del Rey, Not All Who Wander are Lost
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Monday Music: Grupo Menos é Mais, Jurerê
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Monday Music: Socorra, Muddy Water
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Monday Music: How Olivia Rodrigo Wrote ‘Drivers License,’ the Biggest Song of the Year (So Far)
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America, Ethics, Legislation, Liberty, Music, Politics, Wisconsin, WISGOP
The Party Demands Unity
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One reads that WISGOP Bill Would Make It Illegal For Sports Venues to Skip National Anthem: It would be illegal for some sports venues to skip the national anthem before games under a new bill proposed by a Republican legislator. Stevens Point Republican Sen. Patrick Testin’s Star Spangled Banner Act, proposed Wednesday, would require the anthem…
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Monday Music: John Williams, Finale from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Monday Music: Wayne Shorter, Footprints
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Monday Music: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, You Can’t Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
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Monday Music: Pino Palladino, Blake Mills – Just Wrong
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Monday Music: Junior Mance, Georgia on my Mind (Live in Concert, Germany 2002)
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See also Junior Mance, jazz pianist whose chords were built on the blues, dies at 92: “Living in Chicago, that was Bluesville,” he told Newsday in 1987. “There were people around like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Memphis Slim; boogie-woogie players like Jim Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons. When I was a kid, my mother…
Cats, Music, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Did Mozart Like to Imitate Cats?
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Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…