Tag: music
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Once again
Myra came to the rescue. My screen here had frozen and I couldn’t get it out of Zoom. That’s a relief. Ready for tomorrow’s sister zoom and now I know how to unfreeze it. Whew! Also, I got things straightened out with Netflix, which was too boring to go into detail about. Then I sat…
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Thank you notes
I have a whole lot of people to thank. So, I got some thank you notes. I think receiving a card in the mail is more personal than emailing them. But, I’m old fashioned. Next I’d like to tell Anthony Robert, who reads my blog, that his writing is very good. Keep at it as…
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Endurance
My dance partner, Dick Vivian, died. I just found out. A D.J. Devoted an hour on KALW to his achievements and importance, especially to musicians. It’s true. Dick’s record store on Haight was a source of more than 45’s. Dick knew everything about music from the 50’s and 60’s. There was a brief mention of…
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Nothing is ‘new’
A professor I had for choreography once told the class we should not approach making dances as if we were inventing the wheel. Every movement phrase has an origin someplace. Where originality comes in is how a turn or lift is combined with music, timing, pause or silence. The possibilities are endless. The idea is…
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Porte Bandera
June 14th is Flag Day. It was also the birthday of a fellow I used to work for, James Maxwell Baldwin. He was of British descent and sort of starchy. Which agrees with a sturdy flag. O’er the ramparts… imagine Betsy Ross making the first flag without a sewing machine. Durable in rain, sleet or…
