Christmas music
On Saturday 26 November the Bach Society of Queensland will be presenting Handel’s Messiah in St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane. Tickets here. If you live elsewhere you can use this thread as a roundtable to let others in your area [...]
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This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Christopher Walken’s l33t skillz in song and dance. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Quick not-link: Australia’s biggest music funding body
…is the Australian Defence Force, according to some figuring by Brian Toohey in the Fin Review today.
Overproduced, Overwrought, from Over the Ditch
A few years back we had a very entertaining thread titled Cheezy Listening. Posts #17 and #48 of that thread referenced the bathetic “Tell Laura I Love Her”, and specifically the 1974 version by New Zealand band Creation. I have [...]
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This week’s whimsy is brought to you by ukelele-cello-playing sister duo the Doubleclicks. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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This week’s whimsy is brought to you by this Job Review for Mary Poppins. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a Mariachi band serenading a Beluga whale. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the superb voice of Ella Fitzgerald. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Amy Winehouse and the tragedy of myths
Winehouse’s struggles will have been compounded by the world she found herself in. Her death should stimulate reflection on how myths surrounding mental illness have a cruel hold over real lives.
Hairspray the Musical: Cultural politics of the 60s, now, and race
What interests me in this post is the cultural politics of Hairspray. One of its marketing themes is 60s nostalgia. That nostalgia is by necessity a collective re-imagining of what the 60s ‘meant’, whether or not we were around to form our own judgements.
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by something you could do for AIDS charities in September – dress as Freddie For A Day. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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