There was much fun and cooking this weekend.

( Historic Cooking Friday )

new_man has been know to sing songs about Albert, but that's not the music I'm talking about. I backed a Kickstarter for the Music for Cats project and the album arrived the other day ( Read more... )

For those of a Renaissance and/or musical bent: I'm looking for a version of "Celeste Giglio" that's 4 minutes long.

I really like the Renaissonics version which is ~4:35, but I don't have the audio engineering skill to excise 30+ seconds from somewhere in the middle and have it sound seamless.

I found this one from Ernst Stolz, which is exactly ( Read more... )

The Grateful Dead played their last concert yesterday. I was never a deadhead, although I was quite fond of their music. J.*, one of my really good friends in high school was and my senior year she took me to a show ( Read more... )

First, I've acquired another vintage album, but unlike the other 2 I have, this one has no digital equivalent. I'd like to use the music in class, but these days an LP is not so practical. Any advice on digitizing the album ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of cleaning and organizing my sewing room -- a massive undertaking. Amongst the stuff taking up precious space is a collection of audio tapes from my days of dancing with Taj. I'd like to keep the music, but ditch the tapes (most of them are one song per cassette -- multiple times on one side for practicing, a single time on the ( Read more... )