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554. Song Saturday Nostalgia: This I Swear is True

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Maybe it’s Winter; the cold calling for a mind thaw. I’ve been in the nostalgia zone. Deep into that zone for a few weeks. Actually that’s good because with all these songs flooding into my consciousness, along comes the synesthesia–the mind movie I talk about on my webpage; I get back into writing. Each time I would search and find the song that poked its way up through my thoughts, it would lead to another. And another. Many of these were playing while I was in my early teens. There’s was nothing, nothing like the feeling of cheek-burning excitement at … Continue reading →

100. Song Saturday: 12/1/07: Concert/ Jazz Greats/ introducing Denise Thimes

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For Song Saturday I would like to share my wonderful experience at Flushing Town Hall this evening where THE 6 jazz greats met to perform. The sextet included, and I will refer to my program notes for the information: Jimmy Heath, (sax) the middle brother of the legendary Heath Brothers, Percy and Tootie. He has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of the last 50 years, including Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis. One of his earliest bands (1947-1948) in Philadelphia included John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Specs Wright, Cal Massey, Johnny Coles, Ray Bryant and Nelson Boyd. … Continue reading →

191. Song Saturday: 3/22/08: Mahler, symph no. 5: Gustavo Dudamel Conducts The Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra

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True class: South America’s lightning conductor . . . what I experienced was sensational. His name is Gustavo Dudamel . . . he produced enough electricity to light up Birmingham . . . a young man with boundless talent, deeply in love, and the world at his feet.” The Times; (London), February 2007 Here’s a change of pace for Sans Souci of the rock & roll hearted.  What most people may not know about me is that I live in a household with thousands of classical music CD’s, and that my husband, son, and I are actual card-carrying members of … Continue reading →

118. Song Saturday: 12/29/07 Rob Schwimmer’s CD…seriously…jazz…theremin

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                  Original Compositions for piano and theramin Yesterday I introduced you to the Polygraph Lounge; The Cerebral Jukebox proudly presents Cousin Rob Schwimmer’s Beyond The Sky Addendum! **Hello, Theremin enthusiasts, friends, interested non-enthusiasts, and anyone I’ve missed– Start off your New Year on the right foot at the first THEREMIN SOCIETY concert of ’08 this Friday (1/4/08) @ 8PM at the Issue Project Room in beautiful Brooklyn! (Directions below) “Rob Schwimmer’s Pellucid Dream(s) for Theremin is a 20 minute work depicting the unpredictability of the dream state. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes funny, serious, … Continue reading →