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Christmas music that doesn’t suck #6: In dulci jubilo
This is probably my favorite Christmas carol, largely because I love how the text switches back and forth between English and Latin every couple of measures. Also, it is a very comfortable,...
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Christmas music that doesn’t suck #7: Pinkham
In honor of tomorrow’s concert at St. James Cathedral, I’m posting (like yesterday) a piece we’ll be doing. This is at least the second time I’ve done Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, but I can’t remember...
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Christmas music that doesn’t suck #8: Messiah
Probably the biggest classical hit of the season is the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. It is truly one of the most beloved choruses of all time. But it’s not a Christmas song. Actually, it’s...
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Christmas music that doesn’t suck #9: My choir!
Remember how I was complaining the other day when I was complaining that there were no good, professional recordings of Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata on YouTube? Guess what, somebody recorded us singing...
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Eulogy for Tony Amato by Liz Hastings
My opera friends know who Tony Amato was. My rock friends might not, but I can assure you that almost all of them know there was a little tiny opera house next to CBGBs. My comrade in song, Liz...
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Top 10 Danimal quotes of 2011
For those who don’t know, Danimal is my intellectually disabled brother. He doesn’t quite form sentences the way most of us do, and sometimes ends up saying hilarious things. This year, we decided to...
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Deep discounts on song commissions! (Get out of debt sale, part 2)
Hi all! Remember last year, when I put Toyshop on sale for $1 in an attempt to get out of debt? It did some good– word got out, people who had never heard of me discovered me, some people really...
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East Coast Tour
Hello fans! It’s been awhile. Me and my band are going to play some shows. It’ll have been a year at the end of August, and I figure we have to play at least once a year, or else we don’t really exist...
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My band went on tour (some of us anyway)
Photo by Edrie Hello! I went on a mini-tour with my band. This is a very rare occurrence. Usually I tour by myself to keep costs and drama down. Since I had moved to Chicago and it was going on a year...
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Amanda has her birthday and goes to a terrorist attack
I didn’t want to write about last Monday because I didn’t want to make it *about me.* I also haven’t posted in awhile (which is partly on purpose and partly because of being busy), so it would be weird...
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