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Friday, December 5, 2025

Tiny Friday Miscellanea

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Just tiny things today. This is a new thing on Spotify, apparently. My "listening age" is 305. Yes, a lot of my favorite music com...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Virtuosity vs "performing" virtuosity.

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I recently saw a concert of cello and piano and it was a quite good and quite enjoyable concert. Apart from the Sonata for cello and piano b...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Friday Miscellanea

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Not so miscellaneous today: before going to Thanksgiving dinner yesterday with friends, I had a couple of free hours so I listened to most o...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

Today's listening

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One of those innumerable, terrific symphonies by Joseph Haydn: And a photo I took yesterday. There are clusters of morning glory everywhere ...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Friday Miscellanea

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Finally something interesting: two new pieces by J. S. Bach. No, not newly written of course, but newly discovered. Here is the New York Tim...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

Friday Miscellanea

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I'm just not keeping up with The Guardian, which is why I missed this article: In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural ...
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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Rick Beato on Sleep Token

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I said in my Friday Miscellanea post that I didn't see much worth commenting on. But just now, I did. More and more I find Rick Beato to...
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Bryan Townsend
Born in Alberta, Canada, grew up on Vancouver Island, lived a decade in Montreal, resident in Mexico since 1998. Degrees in music from McGill University in performance, post-graduate study in musicology. Catalogue includes a cycle of twelve songs, two suites for solo guitar, chamber music for violin, viola and guitar, two guitars and harpsichord and other combinations including three pieces for guitar orchestra published by Guitarissimo of Stockholm, Sweden. Publications include two books of pedagogy for guitar, one on technique and the other on playing Bach, which included eight new transcriptions for guitar. Four Pieces for Violin and Guitar were published by The Avondale Press in Vancouver. In April 2015 a new piece for violin and piano, "Chase" was premiered in a concert at Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico. In the 2021/2022 season there will be two premieres: the String Quartet 2 in Vancouver and an untitled piano piece in the Pro Musica series in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico.
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