Posted on August 29, 2008 by virgomusic
Was it a political rally or a rock concert? Last night’s Convention Grande Finale featured about as much live-on-stage performance as the previous 3 nights combined. The always hard-working house band got a few more breaks than usual as several recorded songs were used. While it was a mixed bag again, I believe that the [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by virgomusic
I just noticed that I’ve passed 10,000 hits! That’s a myriad to you classical Greek scholars! Thank you all for reading, and I hope you’ll keep coming back… and tell a friend!
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Posted on August 28, 2008 by virgomusic
I suppose anything that had to follow the excitement of the first nomination of an African American for president by a major political party (What, you mean you didn’t tune in for the state-by-state roll call voting that transmogrified into a genius bit of political theater, and I mean that in a good way — [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by virgomusic
The music for Tuesday night was kind of a grab-bag — a bit of a let down from Monday night’s funk-fest, if you ask me. There were many fills that I didn’t recognize, and most of the ones I did know didn’t really seem thematically related to the speaker they introduced (or to the one [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2008 by virgomusic
You never know when an opportunity for music education will present itself. This is both delightful and vexing to yours truly, because it means that 1) there’s never a shortage of grist for the music-nerdy mill, but 2) there’s so much to know, I’m afraid that any day now, the hard drive in my brain [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2008 by virgomusic
Greetings, fellow Music Nerds! Please forgive me for my prolonged absence. This summer has really flown by, and it was mainly taken up with the huge task of relocating McVirgo Manor. (I think it’s time for McDoc and I both to admit that we need to start attending some meetings. ) I decided to finally [...]
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