This time of year is kind of like New Year's for auditors. I've actually been talking about my new year's resolutions at work, even though it's March. Um...happy Nowruz ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I saw HamiltonIt felt like I spent the evening on a different planet. I bought the ticket a year ago, because I realized if I wanted to see it, I should buy the ticket before the Tony nominations, and I refused to pay more than $100. This meant clicking through every single performance till I found the first one with a single ticket for ( Read more... )

Back in July, I picked up a bunch of used CDs from the Princeton Record Exchange (still my favorite music store--seriously, if you're ever in Princeton, check it out) and have been slowly working my way through the stack ( Read more... )

The concert season is over for my choir, and so I've been feeling a little wistful and listening to recordings of old Dessoff concerts. I keep the recordings of everything we do--in fact, I have recordings all the way back to high school, though those are still on tape. As I've been in Dessoff for more than a decade, we are talking several days ( Read more... )

Because studying for the CPA is so intensely boring, I've been acquiring new music at a prodigious rate. This is not helped by either a) being about two blocks from a good music store and b) mp3 downloads ( Read more... )

I have acquired a new album of Bulgarian choral music (that is not as random as it seems--Bulgarian singing is AMAZING), and was listening through it, and came to this. Have a listen. Sound familiar?

That's because James Horner completely stole it for the main theme of the Willow soundtrack.

Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares was kind of a craze in the ( Read more... )

I am listening to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" as I do CPA questions, an album that is half awesome and half terrible ( Read more... )

I have another case do, so you're getting a post on not that!

Watched 20 Feet from Stardom last night. It is fantastic. It gives a history of pop music over the last 60 years, highlighting the exploitation of black female voices. I mean, that's not the only thread going on, but one of the singers said, of British rock and rollers, "They wanted to ( Read more... )

I am listening to a radio documentary on John Cage's "Four minutes thirty-three seconds." Does it ever get performed any more? I've never seen it programed. I mean, it is fundamentally changed if the audience knows what it is, and it's so famous now that most classical audiences would know it. So can it even be performed anymore ( Read more... )

It is old home week on my iPod. I've been listening to stuff I haven't really listened to since high school.

Riverdance by Bill Whelan - I know, I know, Riverdance all became something of a joke, but the CD still holds up. I have to be all hipster about this album, too, and say I bought it back when it was a $17 import, before the show had come ( Read more... )