I need to admit something here, and although I’m sure I’ll be judged, I need to get it out in the open. I’m a music Philistine. Although my music taste is wide and varied, much of the music that is widely appreciated by many of my friends and those in my sociopolitical demographic is lost [...]

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For my first entry I’d like to share with you all this recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana:

Lyrics with English translations are available at this companion site to an introductory Latin textbook by Gavin Betts.1 I recommend following along as you listen.
Carmina Burana is a cantata that Orff, a German composer, premiered in [...]

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It’s time for some interactive entertainment at Buttered Waffles.
You may have noticed that our fellow blogger David has
impugned our taste in music:
[Waffles], eat your heart out; I’m still years ahead of your usual music interests. And for [Butter], I’m probably hundreds of years, or at least a few continents away (German heavy metal?). Well, [...]

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