Category: Holiday Series

Next week marks the beginning of my favorite holiday-time of the year, at least when I was a kid — the end of the school year and the start of summer! It is a time to celebrate another year of learning, a time to appreciate the past year, but also a time to look forward […]

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Roundelays can be songs, poems, or dances. In a song, they revolve around fundamental phrases and musical statements that are repeated throughout a piece. One can say that even in a highly-experimental jazz genre, roundelays are crucial, because they provide a basic theme and framework for musicians to improvise around and return to over and […]

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Traditionally, Labor Day meant the end of the summer holidays, back-to-school and work, with not another long weekend until November. Well, don’t despair. I have a little dance number on line this week to cheer you up. Before showing you this week’s video, I need to say there was a technical error with last week’s […]

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