Spitball Army

He turns up Vaughan Williams to the bearable limit, cheese straw crumbs dotting his sweater, his piquant pipe smoldering on the table.

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I just woke up about a half hour ago when they wheeled a piano in the ward. A girl is now playing and it’s her music that has put me in this mood.

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Approxmiate playing time: 76 minutes.

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Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, artist and musician but, above all, composer.

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Organizing music books: Beatles > Dylan > artists, alphabetically > genres > regions > music biz > anthologies > jazz > classical.

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I’d sold her dozens of classical CDs, so she invited me. But the duo of scratchy gamba and wheezy pump organ set my teeth on edge.

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The cellist rocked; his partner’s hands rolled over the keyboard. They followed Beethoven with “Truckin’.” The audience: grateful. solow-auerbach_duo_blend_dead.html

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…and then there were these stubs, found in various piles about the house, from an odd assortment of musical events that I attended before the turn of the century.

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“If I can make it here, I’ll make it anywhere.”

So goes the line from the well-worn song “New York, New York.” And, apparently, the inverse rule applies, as well. The last of the giant music retail stores in New York City shuttered completely yesterday, according to this morning’s New York Times.

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