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Best of tunequest: Top 10 discoveries of 2006

January 10th, 2007

When I began the original tunequest in February of last year, I had ~6000 songs in my iTunes library that had a play count of zero. Part of that list consisted of old CDs that just hadn't been played since they were digitized. A good number of them were the result of over-zealous music collection and exploration. That was one of the reasons I decided to undertake the endeavor ...

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Stravinsky’s Petrushka: Discovering Ballet

August 14th, 2006

The classical bug is biting me again, so today i picked up my old habit, treating myself to an excellent ballet: Stravinsky's Petrushka. to be honest, I never realized how exceptional this piece of music truly is until this morning. In fact, until about a year ago, I had tended to avoid ballets all together, in favor of more abstract symphonies. But lately, I've discovered that ballets, specifically early-to-mid-20th ...

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