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On Turning 60 1-b, side note - Tom Waits (76! this month). What do Beethoven, Petrucciani and Jeff Lynne have in common?

(note the lack of meter, the whole imitating a kerchief being blown along by a wind) ...(2017/2025): December. Birthday month. Music. Fiddling around with music posts a few years ago I noticed...an odd thing.  Like everyone else, I've listened to an enormous amount of music since, well, my birth almost 51 (now 59) years ago. And a bit like everyone else I have a few favorites.   Despite the huge numbers of people listened to, only 3 - all of them men - consistently 'get' and got to me through their music. All 3 preferences, as usual, being established in my teens or late childhood. (The notion of both the ages - my age when a composer or musician was first heard and music as a 'talking' meta-language - would each be for a different note.) Basically they, those 3 ...talk. I hear them in fairly -you could call them deep and consistent - places. Every time I hear their music.      The first was Jeff Lynne (first of ELO, then solo.)  Pop with strings ...

Musical brains

Giovedi parole - mattina in montagna

old notes - ...caldo, freddo, chupa-chupa.

Thursday Words: Easter Weekend - The Blood of a Sacrificial Lamb, The Blood of Christ, The Flesh of the Palestianians. Obeyance? Rebellion.

Domenica Musica - Have you ever seen the rain

domenica musica - Piazzolla

Unzipping Zipf's Law: solution to a century-old linguistic problem.

Thursday Words: Delfini contro Monti (Mario)

Giovedi. Parole - Il Gatto del Tango Lombardo

Le Bombe. E La Montanara. (Stuffed doughnuts. And Alpine Highlander Music.) Parole Giovedi/Thursday words

Thursday Words. Behavior, development: 'Boys will be boys' in the US but not in Asia

Domenica Musica: Che faccia - Who Are You

Parole Giovedi: L'EU, Mario Draghi, il Caffe e il te.

Roman Flavors: The End of An Elegant Intention - Cafe Notegen

Valentine: My Father's Last Love Letter