Wedding Music

In case you missed it, yours portly is getting married.  Yesterday, I decided to sit down and figure out music for the ceremony (pending Dr. Fiancée’s approval, of course) so that our pianist—the incomparable Robert Mason Sandifer—can get to practicing.

I’m not selecting anything controversial or daring for the processional or recessional.  I’ve asked Mason to have fun with the prelude music and to play some of his original compositions, but for the ceremony itself, it’s straight-up Baroque classics.

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Lazy Sunday CXVII: Cinema

The cinema is either making a major comeback, or it’s enjoying one last gasp of box office dominance before fading into obscurity.  Either way, it’s a great excuse to look back on some past posts about the movies!

  • The Future of Cinema” – I wrote this bad boy back in October 2020, during The Age of The Virus.  Theaters had started to reopen, only to shutter again as the dreaded Delta variant scared journalists and schoolmarms everywhere.  I mused that the magic of seeing a flick on the big screen would, even in some altered form, triumph over streaming.
  • Supporting Friends Friday: The Cinematic Compositions of Mason Sandifer” –  Robert Mason Sandifer is a young composer with whom I had the opportunity to work for a couple of years while he was in high school.  Since I wrote this post back in 2021, he’s gone on to compose a great deal more.
  • The Return of the Cinema” – Is moviegoing back?  I certainly hope so.  It’s been a big summer for the movies, and it’s good to see theaters and lobbies full of the unwashed masses again.

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Other Lazy Sunday Installments:

Supporting Friends Friday: New Works from Robert Mason Sandifer

Two years ago I wrote “Supporting Friends Friday: The Cinematic Compositions of Mason Sandifer” about the composing work of one of my student, Robert Mason Sandifer.  Mason (as I call him) started distributing his music to all the major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, etc.) earlier this month, and he is directly responsible for inspiring me to put my old instrumental music on the same platforms.

Mason is currently undertaking an ambitious project to compose instrumental music that tells the story of the Bible, from Genesis through Revelations (or, as my friend Steve O would say, “from Genesis through Maps”).  It’s an amazing concept, and he has executed it beautifully so far.

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