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Monday Music: Maple Leaf Rag

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Some ragtime for the beginning of the week. Highlights of the 2008 Old-Time Piano Championship held Memorial Day weekend at the Hotel Pere Marquette in Peoria, IL. 12 year-old Cassidy Gephart saw videos of this contest on YouTube and came in from Covington, Kentucky to play Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag. Cassidy placed 1st in…

Animation, Film, Music

Monday Music: Real Folk Blues

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From the anime series Cowboy Bebop, here is the Real Folk Blues, in Japanese and English.  I’ve no Japanese, and yet the original version remains compelling to an English-speaker merely for the sound of the words.   

Film, Music, Politics

An In-Case-You-Missed-It Post

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Spring Break in our school district and campus is now over. For those who were on break, whether traveling or relaxing in the city, one hopes your time was pleasant. Here’s an ICYMI post with links to selected posts from the last week at this site. Politics, about our 4th District Council race: A Dodgy…

Music

Monday Music, Part 2: Pharrell Williams, Happy

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A longtime reader wrote in this morning, and teased me over my post of the Cranberries’ Roses (on the theory that it was a melancholy song). I picked that song because Delores O’Riordan has a fine voice, and an Irish singer seemed fitting on St. Patrick’s Day. Still, a sad song wasn’t meant to suggest…