Tag Archives: Music
Finland: The 17 in ’17 Bit (Part 2)
Tervetuloa! That’s a Finnish “welcome” to the second half of my list of 17 reasons why I love Finland! Part 1 covered reasons 1 to 9 – now, in this 100th anniversary year of Finnish Independence, here (in no special order as always) are the rest: 10. Seeing the Forest AND the Trees! As I […]
O Fortuna: The Cal-mina Bear-ana Bit
O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis So begins the fabulous musical work Carmina Burana with the declaration that fortunes change like the waxing and waning moon. Boy do they, right? And sometimes a major change of fortune can come from a trivial choice. Like when my decision to join a university chorus and sing these words caused […]
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