The Jack Dunlap Band will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse to ruin Christmas on Friday night, December 20, from 8-9 for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. Sure you could listen to Offbeat Roadhouse on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it, but concerts always sound better with you as part of the […]
Christmas
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Raunächte – The Twelve Nights after Christmas Drawn in Pastels
For Americans, the Twelve Days of Christmas means turtledoves, drummers drumming and five golden rings. But for Northern Europeans, that time between Christmas day and Epiphany (January 6) is when winter weather is often harshest. Yet it’s also a time of hope. Raunächte collects twelve works that exemplify that spirit of hope “in the bleak […]
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Daquin Livre de noëls – Baroque Christmas Bonbons
Excerpts from Daquin’s Livre de Noëls often turn up in Baroque Christmas music releases. They’re short, appealing gems of French Galant writing. Hearing all twelve of these pieces in one sitting, though, made me revise my impression of them. Daquin was a virtuoso organist, and his settings of these French Noëls shows the extent of […]