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A working composer - who has managed to make a living for 30+ years writing everything from radio jingles to music for the church.


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Brentwood, TN
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Aug 9, 2010

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Great story.  

And it's more interesting and better written than any sports story in today's edition of the "Tennessean."

Edited on May 20 at 5:56am
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tabula rasa: We'll never be a color-blind society until we retire tired cliches like "woman of color." No censorship suggested, just honesty. · · 17 hours ago

Sadly, we will never be a color-blind society so long as the Left continues to profit from issues of race.  

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tabula rasa

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Percival: I'm only surprised Obama hasn't hijacked the Sermon on the Mount yet. · 2 hours ago

You mean something like this, perhaps:

Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the nanny state, provided by Obama.

Blessed are those who mourn, for Obama shall comfort them.

Blessed are the meek, for they do not question the word of Obama.

Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, right next to Obama at Reverend Wright's church.

Blessed are the merciful to the liberal Left, because right now Obama could use a little mercy.

Blessed are the pure in liberal ideology.

Blessed are the Peacemakers, and Predator drone missiles, which are showered from the skies by Obama.

Blessed are the liberals who are persecuted by Fox News for Obama's sake.  Theirs is the kingdom right here and right now. · 1 hour ago

You've got a future in the fake Biblical quotes industry.  Excellent. · 20 hours ago

Edited 19 hours ago

Thanks.  It's a limited field.  Not a lot of job openings.

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Dave Carter: On long stretches of highway, early in the morning. The trick is recalling the little gems later that evening when I sit down to write. · 24 minutes ago

Yep.  There is much evidence that an idea not captured quickly is almost certainly an idea lost.  Thank the Lord for the iPhone memo app.

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Percival: I'm only surprised Obama hasn't hijacked the Sermon on the Mount yet. · 2 hours ago

You mean something like this, perhaps:

Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the nanny state, provided by Obama.

Blessed are those who mourn, for Obama shall comfort them.

Blessed are the meek, for they do not question the word of Obama.

Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, right next to Obama at Reverend Wright's church.

Blessed are the merciful to the liberal Left, because right now Obama could use a little mercy.

Blessed are the pure in liberal ideology.

Blessed are the Peacemakers, and Predator drone missiles, which are showered from the skies by Obama.

Blessed are the liberals who are persecuted by Fox News for Obama's sake.  Theirs is the kingdom right here and right now.

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I think we can safely bet his abysmal performance on "Jeopardy" will not deter his smug self-satisfaction on bit.  Nor will it curb his ego at all.e

I saw the line-up on the program yesterday afternoon and immediately changed channels.

Alex Trebec is bad enough on his own.  But adding Matthews and Gibbs - no way.

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Mine comes from the thing I do I enjoy the most.

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The Great Adventure!: It's been mentioned in here a few times, but mine comes from a song

Let's follow our Leader into the glorious unknown

This is a life like no other

This is The Great Adventure!· 1 hour ago

Steven Curtis Chapman, right? 

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Blue Yeti: We generally don't pre-announce guests, so all I can say is...coming soon. · 3 minutes ago

Cool. A non-announcement announcement.

Edited on May 12 at 10:17am
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Loved that closing scene in Modern Family.  Great payoff for a set-up that ran the entire episode.

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So - just how many ex-band geeks lurk around Ricochet?

Signed - former band president, music ed major, and percussionist.

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Leporello If a cellist came in late, the rest of the section would cover for him.  

IF a cellist came in late?  What do you mean IF?  You mean WHEN the cellist comes in late, the rest of the section will come in late also.

To a string section, a downbeat is merely a suggestion for when the music starts.

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Dave Molinari

 

Did you see the Cheers episode where the symbol player came into the bar to drink between rests?  Hilarious. · 13 hours ago

I wonder if the writers got the idea from the famous orchestra/assassination scene in "The Man Who Knew Too Much," in which the cymbal player watched something like 400 measures of rests go by while waiting to play a single crash. In the midst of a very tense scene, I thought that was hilarious.

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Misthiocracy

Arthur Brooks:

In general, playing principal horn in an orchestra is an odd mix of boredom and terror. You sit there for 20 minutes, getting all cold and stiff. Then you have a scary entrance like that. 

Is that better or worse than being stuck playing auxiliary percussion, which is a mix of abject boredom and futile absurdity. 

To be fair, whacking away at the kettle drums waskinda fun, but precious few pieces called for them. Usually I just sat at the back of the stage throwing scrunched up balls of paper into the tuba. · 17 hours ago

Yes - but did you ever hide a fellow percussionist INSIDE the concert bass drum.  We did that once - in a high school band rehearsal. The kid sat inside the drum (with both drums heads on it) for an entire rehearsal.  And the band director never noticed he was missing.

The most dangerous section in any orchestra or band is the percussion section - should they ever become bored.

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tabula rasa: Funny how (a) - (c) concern recent events in Obama's life: two relate directly to his presidency.

Mitt's sins would be from, what, 45-50 years ago? Of course, the Dems, being the party of perpetual adolescence, would find that relevant.   · 18 minutes ago

TR - You are absolutely right. Infuriating, isn't it?

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Foxman: Have you ever heard the ice-fishing theory of intelligence?  The theory posits that ice fishing improves the average intelligence of the population.  Stupid people go fishing on thin ice.  They fall through the ice and drown, weeding the stupid genes from the population.

Modern society protects people from the consequences of bad decisions, thus stupid genes are preserved and we become dumber. · 52 minutes ago

The movie "Idiocracy" is a funny extrapolation of this concept.  

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