Tuesday Rhapsodies

by on March 27, 2012 at 6:54 am
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Yes… I admit it… I’m going with Liszt’s second Hungarian Rhapsody again! But since I did it with Bugs Bunny earlier this year in Rhapsody Rabbit. I thought I’d share it’s great rival The Cat Concerto with Tom & Jerry.

The Cat Concerto came out the same year as Rhapsody Rabbit with way too many similarities to be coincidences. Which makes for one of the more entertaining controversies in the history of animation involving the rivalries between Warner Brothers and MGM.

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Emerald City ComicCon

by on March 21, 2012 at 9:50 am
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Well the count down has begun in earnest! I’ve been going down my check list and I am really excited. This is the first time I’ve had a table in the Artist Alley, having been helping out at the Cartoonist Northwest exhibition booth. I’d given up on Artist Alley in frustration do to bad traffic and thought going the co-op route in a better traffic area might be more viable. But regrettably while being situated in the middle of the dealer’s area looked like a better traffic spot, it was a better the way a 7-11 on Aurora is a good traffic spot. While there were hundreds of people going by most of them were on their way to meet the celebrities, or knew exactly what they were looking for. In the mean time I couldn’t help noticing that the Artist Ally that I had abandoned as a frustrating waste of time had now become viable. Crowded with people looking to try something new. So this year I’m giving it another try, and I’m far more excited than I am nervous. So if you’re in Seattle between March 30th and April 1st come on by. I can’t wait to see you.

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by on March 20, 2012 at 9:03 am
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Today’s Rhapsody is Bela Bartok’s first Rhapsody for the violin with soloist Kyung-Wha Chung. I’m really enjoying becoming more familiar with Bartok’s work. He was a folklorist as well as a composer and incorporated much of the traditional Hungarian and Gypsy music he researched into this works. It gives the violin solo a wonderful haunting quality that I’m really getting into.

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on March 16, 2012 at 10:57 am
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Today’s sketch, from the Seattle Art Museum, is of “Tower of Mothers” by Käthe Kollwitz. This was the first piece I had ever seen Kollwitz and regrettably the first time I’d heard of her. Since then I’ve been enjoying the pleasure of discovering her work. I very much like her vivid style and the power of the symbolism behind it.

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Kingston Trio – MTA

by on March 15, 2012 at 3:17 pm
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I’ve always liked folk music. Growing up my father used to play his guitar and banjo to us and he had an extensive collection of folk records including Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary as well as the Kingston Trio.

I was reminded of the Kingston Trio today. While they weren’t my favorites, they had a few songs I like such as the Anne Boleyn song (which was nearly traumatic when I first heard it at age eight.) and this one, the MTA song which my Father used to like but couldn’t get some of the final chords right. I always liked it too, mostly due to the absurdity of this musical tall tale.

Of course as I got older a recurring question kind of spoiled it for me… Why didn’t Charlie’s wife give him train fair along with his daily sandwich?

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