music
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Trying New Things
My goal is to learn five songs this year from beginning to end. This might include singing along! Since I’ve already learned the intro to White Horse, that’s become the first of those five songs.
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A Gentle July
As I type this, Davy Jones’s Daughter has reached 62,000 words. I predict that it will be finished in only a few more chapters.
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The Waltz of Song & Poetry: CHAMBER MUSIC by James Joyce
It is common for well-loved songs to find their inspiration in poetry. Some are written with the goal of being transformed into music, including CHAMBER MUSIC by James Joyce.
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The Creators of CARMEN: Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet
Depressed by the evident failure of Carmen, Georges Bizet fell victim to depression. It became so stifling that that, when he died in 1875, people speculated that he had taken his own life after the failure of CARMEN.