Trout Dinner on Schubert's Birthday

Franz Peter Schubert
Austrian-born Classical Music Composer
(31 January 1797 – 19 November 19 1828)
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Rudi Moosmeier, jazz piano (2006)
- Die Forelle "The Trout" (after Schubert)

Mozart - One of Three Classical Music Immortals

Dom Salzburg, Mozart's Organ (left), 14 December 2010
Mozart's Birthday Anniversary

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Mantovani and His Orchestra (1955)
- Minuet from Divertimento in D (Mozart)
This delightful and graceful Mozart minuet is taken from Divertimento in D, K.334. Composed in 1779, it was originally scored for two violins, viola, bass, and two horns. The 23-year-old Mozart then was living in Salzburg, Austria.

Chinese New Year 2012

23 January 2012

Berry Lipman's Birthday

Berry Lipman
German Pop Orchestra Leader
Born: 11 January 1921
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Berry Lipman and Orchestra (1996)
- Clair (O'Sullivan)

2012 Custom Ringtones

In November 2011, I started posting some custom iPhone ringtones. They have been archived; in their stead, csv files are posted. Interested party may download and peruse through these cvs logs and request the desired ringtones via email.

The first 2012 featured ringtone in m4r format is ready for download - Frankie Laine's "Rawhide" from 1959. See sidebar for the link to the ringtones.

As time permits, I will post more ringtones.

Scriabin's Birthday

Alexander Scriabin
Russian neo-classical composer and pianist
(6 January 1872 - 27 April 1915)
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Evgeny Kissen, piano (2005)
- Five Preludes, Op. 15, No. 1 (Scriabin)

New Beginning

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
-- Genesis 1:1 English Standard Version (ESV)
The birth of Jesus forever and radically altered the course of human history, starting with the wise men. They didn't expect it or plan it. To be safely out of harm's way amid Herod's furor and paranoia, the magi took a different route home after worshiping Jesus (Matthew 2:1-7). Here is the very first example alluding to God's dispensation of grace, in that salvation is of the Lord Jesus.

God's grace and mercy for salvation are that radical and unexpected. It is not something we sinners can control, dictate, and set conditions. The wise men understood the radical grace of Christmas and made a course change to save their lives. For God so love the world, He has entered a covenant of sovereign grace with man. This covenant is the unconditional gift of redemption of man's sin through Jesus (Romans 8:23-24); the salvation plan unfurled to mankind begining with the first four words of the first book of the Bible, Genesis: "In the beginning, God..."

New Twelve Jeweled Months in 2012

The New Year
(Unknown Author, 1919)

Snow-wrapped and holly-decked it comes,
To richest and to poorest homes.
Twelve jeweled months all set with days
Of priceless opportunities.
A silver moon, a golden sun,
With diamond stars when day is done;
Over all a sapphire sky
Where pearly clouds go floating by.