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February 29

Week 303: “Artificial Sweetener” by Daisuke Tanabe

I ate a lot of candy as a kid. The problem began at age 8,…

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February 1

Week 299: “O Sacrum Convivium” by Olivier Messaien

Two things strike me about Olivier Messaien: a) He really liked birds, almost to a…

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December 7

Week 291: “Damascus” by Oskar Schuster

Does your family have that one Christmas album that gets played every year, even though…

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November 23

Week 289: “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig Van Beethoven

On top of being one of the greatest composers of all time, Beethoven might take…

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October 26

Week 285: “Lit” by Kiasmos

The other day I realized that I had been tagging some posts on this blog…

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September 14

Week 279: “Dawn’s Song” by Michael Kaeshammer

Small concerts are the best. There’s nothing wrong with super-sized, stadium-filling mega-shows, but sometimes music…

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September 7

Week 278: “Serial Lover” by Ecce Cello

As we’ve already learned, cellists are the coolest members of the orchestra. But David Fernandez,…

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August 10

Week 274: “Andante Cantabile” by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

One of the most popular games to play when analyzing the career of a troubled…

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August 3

Week 273: “White Night” by Thus Owls

Watching Thus Owls perform recently at a festival, I was struck by how quickly their…

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July 13

Week 270: “Northern Lights” by Ola Gjeilo

Of all the weird and wonderful phenomena that Mother Nature conjures up, the weirdest and…

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July 6

Week 269: “Melodie au Crepuscule” by Django Reinhardt

I had a friend at university who pretty much never called anyone by their real…

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May 25

Week 263: “Hills Are Floating” by Stev

I feel like I’ve been neglecting Italy. After 262 weeks of beautiful songs, I count…

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April 27

Week 259: “Letters Of A Traveller” by Olafur Arnalds

Ever wonder what classical composers would have been like if they had been born in…

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April 20

Week 258: “Different Paths” by Western Skies Motel

When I wrote to Rene Gonzalez Schelbeck of Western Skies Motel to tell him that…

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March 23

Week 254: “The Rustle of Spring” by Christian Sinding

Some waterfalls only exist for a few weeks each year. There are several of these…

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March 16

Week 253: “Like Real People Do” by Hozier

If you feel like celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this year, you can probably do without…

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February 9

Week 248: “Pretty Face” by Soley

There’s a literary genre that I’ve been really into recently, called “stunt non-fiction”. The formula…

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January 19

Week 245: “The Miller and the Brook” by Franz Schubert

Classical composers were dying young way before rock stars made it cool. Mozart famously (and…

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December 15

Week 240: “Blafeldur” by amiina

Picking out a winter coat is a tricky business. It’s tricky because you can’t test…

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November 10

Week 235: “Abendlied” by Josef Rheinberger

I’ve got nothing against parties, nightclubs, pub crawls, or any event that involves a lot…

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