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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 13 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
    
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		<item id="164">
			<title><![CDATA[Babbling Hiatus]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/164</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler is recharging. He'll be on a blogging hiatus for a bit, as he works on  music projects.

He will be microblogging, though. Follow @]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="163">
			<title><![CDATA[A Winner: Green Edge Sky, Green Edge Sun]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/163</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In some ways, his email signature line says it all:
Mark Kieswetter (key-sweater)
keyboards, all styles, almost
Jazz mostly
Concise. Precise. Comm]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="162">
			<title><![CDATA[The Secret: Music Edition]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/162</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Music. 

You study. You learn. You practise. You perform. You grow. You master.

Finally, you reach the exalted rank of musician.

No?

No.
]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="161">
			<title><![CDATA[Music, Acoustic Music and Living Better Electrically: Matthew Collings and Me]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/161</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler had the good fortune recently to meet the Iceland-based musician Matthew Collings.  

To call Matthew an exploratory composer, woul]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="160">
			<title><![CDATA[On the Pulse: When a Symphony Meets a DJ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/160</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler attended a music experiment this week. Pulse: Late Night at the New World Symphony in Miami, at the bodacious Frank Gehry designed Ne]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="159">
			<title><![CDATA[Hats Off to Brilliance: Chris Donnelly's Metamorphosis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/159</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Said Robert Schumann on first hearing Chopin:  Hats off, Gentlemen, a Genius! 
Says the Pianobabbler on first hearing Chris Donnelly's Metamorphosis:]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="158">
			<title><![CDATA[The Soaring State of Jazz in Canada]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/158</link>
			<description><![CDATA[From an Asian-based jazz fan's recent email to the Pianobabbler:

"What is the jazz scene in Canada like? From my understanding, it's fragmented and]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="157">
			<title><![CDATA[A Symphronica Tale: My Not At All Small Big Night In Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/157</link>
			<description><![CDATA[An urban prejudice the Pianobabbler once held met a happy demise this weekend.

A big city Toronto boy, the Pianobabbler prejudges (prejudice) small]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="156">
			<title><![CDATA[From The Periodic Table of Jazz]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/156</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Three cerebral atoms collided this week to trigger a reaction in the Pianobabbler's mind. The atoms derive from the What Is Jazz? periodic table, i.e.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 11 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="155">
			<title><![CDATA[Gruntled: Top 10 Reasons It's A Good Time to Be in Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/155</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler bears as much guilt as others. 

Many in the music media and business are disgruntled. The storm clouds and shadows obnubilating th]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="154">
			<title><![CDATA[Salt, Fat, Sugar, Beats: Music's Epidemic]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/154</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Harmonic hypertension. Diatonic diabetes. Chanson chunkiness.

Music, popular music, is experiencing an epidemic.

The Pianobabbler has written ab]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="153">
			<title><![CDATA[Confession of Taste, or How I Loved a Movie I Was Supposed to Hate.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/153</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler loved Mao's Last Dancer. I'm racked with guilt as a result.

The film came out in 2009. Bruce Beresford  directed it. He has a reco]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="152">
			<title><![CDATA[Pithy Pianobabblings]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/152</link>
			<description><![CDATA[- Voltaire: The perfect is the enemy of the good. 
The Pianobabbler: The bad is the artist's friend. The arts visit off nights upon their practitione]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="151">
			<title><![CDATA[Out with the Old. In with the Old.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/151</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler had two encounters with the Great American Songbook (GAS) this week. One, an entrance. The other, an exit.

The entrance: The Piano]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="150">
			<title><![CDATA[Jazz's Classical Path: Whither Jazz or Whithering Jazz?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/150</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two classical discoveries buzzed the Pianobabbler's jazzmind this week. 

One discovery concerns the new. One, the old.

The new: the music of the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="149">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "Dick Wellstood: Wellstride"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the  Pianobabbler.com title puts it - Blog in the Life of a Mus]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="148">
			<title><![CDATA[Dick Wellstood: Wellstride]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/148</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler ranks him as one of the pantheonic greats.

Richard MacQueen Wellstood. Dick Wellstood. If you love piano, if you love jazz, know t]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="147">
			<title><![CDATA[Being The Best: A New York Tale of Yes You Can]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/147</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Every restaurant here has been named The Best.

Aha!, thought the Pianobabbler, that's the answer.

The question?

The Pianobabbler spent the pa]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="146">
			<title><![CDATA[Hamlet and a Happy Year]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There sat the Pianobabbler. New Year's Eve dinner. A dozen friends. Actors. Musicians. Writers.  The glow of community, fueled with wine, nourished wi]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 11 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="145">
			<title><![CDATA[Ba-bee-ba-bee-ba-bee Ba-bye Ba-Babbler (Until '11)]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The time has come for the Pianobabbler to gather up chestnuts, squirrel away nuggets, and winterize his babbles.

So, for the remainder of 2010, the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="144">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "Bach in December: Joe's Month"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the  Pianobabbler.com title puts it - Blog in the Life of a Mus]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="143">
			<title><![CDATA[Bach in December: Joe's Month]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/143</link>
			<description><![CDATA[December. Bach.

Why they go together like summer and ice cream, Bratwurst and mustard, Rin and Stimpy... the Pianobabbler cannot say. 

That Bach]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="142">
			<title><![CDATA[Less Babble, More Eye-Bauble]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/142</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Funny thing about the Pianobabbler. He babbles.

The Pianobabbler explores the working musician's life, for the most part, verbally. Words.

Today]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="141">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "The Good Gigs Mean Nothing Without The Bad"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/141</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the  Pianobabbler.com title puts it - Blog in the Life of a Mus]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="140">
			<title><![CDATA[The Good Gigs Mean Nothing Without The Bad]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/140</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently the Pianobabbler played two gigs in one week.

One featured my Blue Modules  trio project. (Blue Modules- recapturing the pop and dance roo]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="139">
			<title><![CDATA[Light-Shining Musicians]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/139</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The greatest pianist alive.

The Pianobabbler has often thought the person matching that description, the greatest pianist alive , is not to be foun]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="138">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "The Beauty of Simplicity. The Simplicity of Beauty."]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/138</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the Pianobabbler.com title puts it - Blog in the Life of a Musi]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="137">
			<title><![CDATA[The Beauty of Simplicity. The Simplicity of Beauty.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/137</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nature is pleased with simplicity - Isaac Newton, Principia.

The longer the Pianobabbler plays piano, the more he grasps how it takes great mastery]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="136">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "The Touring Test: Trials of Musicians' Travels"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/136</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the Pianobabbler.com title puts it - Blog in the Life of a Musi]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="135">
			<title><![CDATA[The Touring Test: Trials of Musicians' Travels.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/135</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Touring. The glorious burden. The grind. Music's can't live with it, can't  live without it handmaid.

Long live touring.

Country to country. Cit]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="134">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Companion to "Jazz's Big Bang: The Night Art Tatum Arrived"]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/134</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first instalment of a new Pianobabbler feature, The Pianobabbler's Companion. Every Monday, the Pianobabbler writes his- as the Pianoba]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="133">
			<title><![CDATA[Jazz's Big Bang: The Night Art Tatum Arrived]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If the Pianobabbler could witness any historical moment...

The night Art Tatum dismantled, then reassembled jazz piano for all time. Big bang.

P]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="132">
			<title><![CDATA[The Unquestioned Answer]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/132</link>
			<description><![CDATA[And the answer is: Jazz.

What's the question?

A popular American television game show, cleverly named Jeopardy (an etymological play on the Fren]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="131">
			<title><![CDATA[Guest Post: Chris Donnelly - All for Music's Sake]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/131</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This week, the Pianobabbler trades places with a fellow pianist, blogger and more. The next voice you hear will be Chris Donnelly's. The Pianobabbler ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="130">
			<title><![CDATA[Ainsley's Slapdown: Too Many Notes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/130</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler and Ainsley had a bit of a tiff. 

How much music is too much music?

You'll remember Ainsley. You met him in Pianobabbler 125. B]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="129">
			<title><![CDATA[Inside Through The Outside. The Artist. Tonio Kroeger.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/129</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler has said it before (see Pianobabbler 75): the writings of Thomas Mann loom large in his mindscape. The authour of Buddenbrooks, Magic]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="128">
			<title><![CDATA[Alkan, Nichols and the Vagaries of Fame]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/128</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Charles-Valentin Alkan? 

Herbie Nichols?

The computerized InterGooYaHoogleWebNet robs the Pianobabbler of the pontifical pleasure expatiating on]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="126">
			<title><![CDATA[The Single Most Important Piece of Advice Any Artist Will Ever Get]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/126</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Influence. 
 
Every artist experiences influence. We need influence. We thrive on it. We grow on it.
 
Northrop Frye, one of the Pianobabbler's mi]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="125">
			<title><![CDATA[I Nearly Forgot. I Love Making Music.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/125</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Musicians make music. Why? Because we love to make music. 

But in doing what it takes to make music- in doing the business of music (see Pianobabbl]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="124">
			<title><![CDATA[Art and the Now, or Why Brad Mehldau's Crock's a Crock]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/124</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. - Joyce, Ulysses 9

"Be in the now." What a crock!- Brad Mehldau (jazz pian]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="122">
			<title><![CDATA[The Unvacationing Artist]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/122</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.- Philip Roth, Everyman

The Pianobabbler is on vacation. The Pianobabbler ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="121">
			<title><![CDATA[Rilke. Letters. Art. Life.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/121</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke. Don't assume everyone knows of him (ignore the Maria- Rilke was a man.)

If you do know of him, let the Pianobabbler restock you]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="120">
			<title><![CDATA[Living in the 'No': What it Takes to be a Professional Artist]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/120</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What does it take to be a professional artist?

Technique? Practice? Vision? Talent?

From technique, practice, vision, and talent sprouts only th]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="119">
			<title><![CDATA[Toronto: The World's Flower in Art's Garden]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/119</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some tell you how good they are. Some just show you.

Toronto artists won't tell you how good they are. Their art will. 

This Toronotonian, the P]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="118">
			<title><![CDATA[Pleasure Points of Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/118</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler has been thinking. Again. About music. And the music business. Again. Pithily. Compact points. 

To wit:

1. Make music for both ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="117">
			<title><![CDATA[Racism's Ravages Revenged]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/117</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The ravages racism has wrought. The tragedies. The brutal waste. Civilisation in general. Music in particular.

Many suffered and died at the hands ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="116">
			<title><![CDATA[What Happened to the Song? or How the Song Became a Hamburger]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/116</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What happened to the song? 

Song. Sing. Songs. The song. A song. Singsong.

When did the song become the Big Mac?

The Pianobabbler composes so]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="114">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler Plays Favourites: 10 Best All-Time Piano Recordings]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/114</link>
			<description><![CDATA[...as I was saying in last weekÃ¢€™s post, the Pianobabbler plays favourites. Musical favourites.

I talked about embracing our musical opinions. Es]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="113">
			<title><![CDATA[Play Favourites. Go Ahead.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/113</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Be brave. Play favourites.

Favourite. From the Latin faveo, favere meaning to have favour for.

The Pianobabbler plays favourites. 

The Pianob]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="112">
			<title><![CDATA[Why You Must Know Glenn Gould]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/112</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Glenn Gould. Know him.

Digital editing 20 years before it existed. Mashups, when that only meant potatoes. 

A fierce and lonely battle for recor]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="111">
			<title><![CDATA[Critics Are People]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/111</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Critics are people.

Critic.

From the Greek for discern or judge. 

Not a very pretty word. The double k (phonologically, a velar plosive,)  do]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/111</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="110">
			<title><![CDATA[My New TV: The Message Is the Medium]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/110</link>
			<description><![CDATA[High def. 3D. Digital. Surround. Blue Ray. New Ray. This Ray. That Ray. Media systems today.

And? So? Nu?

Do these sensorium enhancers, these st]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/110</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="109">
			<title><![CDATA[Pianobabbler's Gone Fishing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/109</link>
			<description><![CDATA[...to a babbling brook, no doubt. 

Not really. The Pianobabbler doesn't fish. 

He is away, though, and will return next week.

Please stand by]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/109</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="108">
			<title><![CDATA[Listen Up: Fats Waller]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/108</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ELEGY FOR FATS WALLER
Lighting up, lest all our hearts should break,
His fiftieth cigarette of the day,
Happy with so many notes at his beck
And c]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/108</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="107">
			<title><![CDATA[Art is Long, Life is Short, Music Ends]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The long domino chains people take days to set up for the 60-second thrill of seeing them flatten one another in a snake of a sequence...

The music]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/107</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="106">
			<title><![CDATA[The Questions of Music. The Meaning of Music.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/106</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The question. The question behind the question. Plus the meaning of music.

First, the question.

What do you think about when you're playing?

]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="105">
			<title><![CDATA[Rudeness and reverence. Reverence and rudeness. The musician's life.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/105</link>
			<description><![CDATA[1. Good evening Dr. Davis.

2. It's an honour to have you speak to our class Professor Davis.

3. Genius!

4. Use the back door. Don't block the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/105</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="104">
			<title><![CDATA[What is a Musician? Gene Lees and the Canadian Inferiority Self-Image]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/104</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gene Lees died yesterday, at age 82.

Musicians harbor feelings of insecurity.

Canadian musicians harbor feelings of insecurity, doubled dipped i]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/104</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="103">
			<title><![CDATA[Tom Stoppard and the "I Don't Understand Jazz" Myth]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/103</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You teach a lot of people what to expect from good writing, you end up with a lot of people saying "You write well."- from Tom Stoppard's The Real Thi]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/103</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="102">
			<title><![CDATA[No No Adorno, or 50 years in the Musical Desert]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/102</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Did Adorno ruin 50 years of music? 

The Pianobabbler holds a Ph.D. He held an Associate Professorship. He does not launch lightly into a subject be]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/102</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="101">
			<title><![CDATA[Musicology, Numerology and the Pianobabbler @ 100]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/101</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pianobabbler no. 100. My Mother's Father's Song. 3. 7. Lucky 7? 

100
For this, the 100th edition of The Pianobabbler, I want to talk about numerol]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="99">
			<title><![CDATA[The End of Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/99</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The end is near. The beginning is near. 

At the close of the 1800's, physicists were declaring physics over. Everything to be discovered was discov]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/99</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="98">
			<title><![CDATA[Note Bloat- Why Music Needs a Holiday]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/98</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Too much music. In too many places. By too many bands. With too few pauses for silence.

The Pianobabbler ekes out his living as a musician. Yet he ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/98</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="97">
			<title><![CDATA[Copyright Copyleft CopyrightWright Copywrong]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/97</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If the Pianobabbler gave away his music, would he thrive more, or less?

I compose, ergo I copyright. The Pianobabbler is a copyright copywright.
]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/97</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="96">
			<title><![CDATA[Take Two on Take 6]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/96</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Does the Constitution of the Blogiverse prohibit double dipping? 

The Pianobabbler has rhapsodized before about the glories of Take 6: the six man ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/96</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="95">
			<title><![CDATA[Ambition and Monocular non-Eclecticism of the Mass Mind]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/95</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two words every musician must consider: Ambition. Eclectic.

The Pianobabbler has ambition. 

Ambition to what? 

To make it. 

To make what? ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/95</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="93">
			<title><![CDATA[Music Biz Now: Never Worse, Never Better]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/93</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Oy! 

Woe is me. 

Aaaaaagh!!

Howl. Howl. Howl.

We hear these cries made by the species of foul (sic) Recordingus Industrialis Executivissim]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/93</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="92">
			<title><![CDATA[New Wine, New Bottles, No Sweat]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/92</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This post deals with music consumption today. But first...

The Pianobabbler: habitual news addict. 

Magazines every week, papers every day, tele]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/92</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="90">
			<title><![CDATA[The Ups and Downs of Art and Julie Andrews]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/90</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the 18-hour state of suspended animation, misnamed "flight", to Beijing, pinched between consciousness and slumber, no longer able to read Douglas ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="89">
			<title><![CDATA[An Account of the Pianobabbler's Asian Adventures- vol. 5]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/89</link>
			<description><![CDATA[_____

The Pianobabbler is touring Asia, managed by The East West Entertainment Group. This is an ongoing record of his adventures.

***


Beij]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="88">
			<title><![CDATA[An Account of the Pianobabbler's Asian Adventures- vol. 4]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/88</link>
			<description><![CDATA[_____

The Pianobabbler is touring Asia, managed by The East West Entertainment Group. This is an ongoing record of his adventures.

***

Beijin]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="87">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's Jazzman-ifesto]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/87</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When the Pianobabbler's turns off the babble, he turns on the piano.

When he turns on the piano, he makes music.

When he makes music, he makes m]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/87</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="86">
			<title><![CDATA[The Music of Unmusic]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/86</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Boys and girls: the Pianobabbler remembers a time when, to open a door, you had to pull it by hand.  

A time before arugula, sushi, probiotics, and]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/86</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="85">
			<title><![CDATA[10 for 10 and the 10's]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/85</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler does not resolve with the the New Year. He has No New Year Resolutions.

Not to say the Pianobabbler doesn't resolve at all. On the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 10 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/85</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="84">
			<title><![CDATA[An Account of the Pianobabbler's Asian Adventures- vol. 3]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/84</link>
			<description><![CDATA[_____

The Pianobabbler is touring Asia for 6 weeks with vocalist Irene Atman, managed by The East West Entertainment Groupt. This is an ongoing rec]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/84</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="83">
			<title><![CDATA[An Account of the Pianobabbler's Asian Adventures- vol. 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/83</link>
			<description><![CDATA[_____

The Pianobabbler is touring Asia for 6 weeks with vocalist Irene Atman, managed by The East West Entertainment Groupt. This is an ongoing rec]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/83</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="82">
			<title><![CDATA[An Account of the Pianobabbler's Asian Adventures- vol. 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/82</link>
			<description><![CDATA[______

The Pianobabbler is touring Asia for 6 weeks with vocalist Irene Atman, managed by The East West Entertainment Groupt. This is an ongoing re]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/82</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="81">
			<title><![CDATA[New Music- Better Music?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/81</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler listens. And he often hears. And he often hears people talk about music. And he often hears people talking about music talk about new]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/81</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="80">
			<title><![CDATA[The J-Oy Vay of Touring]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/80</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This time next week, the Pianobabbler returns to Asia.

Asia. The, perhaps post-colonialist, name groups diverse countries and cultures. For the Pia]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="78">
			<title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson, Glenn Gould, Genius, Death and Hysteresis]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/78</link>
			<description><![CDATA[______________

There follows a tale of two documentaries the Pianobabbler recently saw: GENIUS WITHIN: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, and  This Is ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="77">
			<title><![CDATA[What WIll I Think of Next?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/77</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Often they ask:  What do you think about when you're playing?

A curious question.

Do they ask lawyers: What do you think about when you're makin]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/77</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="76">
			<title><![CDATA[It's the Truth, Not My Opinion!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/76</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler went to the theatre last night. August: Osage County.

A celebrated modern play. Lots of prizes. Molten hot reviews. Buzz. Press. H]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/76</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="75">
			<title><![CDATA[The Greatest Novel Ever, With Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/75</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler is a piano / babbler.

Not a novelbabbler. Not a fictionbabbler. Not a musicologybabbler.

Still, good enough for Oprah, good eno]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/75</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="74">
			<title><![CDATA[Yooni, Money, Music, Art]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/74</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Incredible music. So what.

Moving. Big deal.

Deeply artistic. Ho hum.

Brilliant. Give me a break.

Entertaining! Entertain this!

Why wou]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/74</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="73">
			<title><![CDATA[Jazz, Phish Jazz, and the Phuture]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/73</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler had a read of Dog Gone Blog the other day. 

The Dog Gone blogger (aka the Pianobabbler's nephew) holds a mighty high ranking as a ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/73</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="72">
			<title><![CDATA[Worse than bad: Mediocre]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/72</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How could they? 

Tom Stoppard towers over English language playwrights. I call him the third 'S' (after Shakespeare and Shaw.) I mean it. Soul, dep]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/72</guid>
		</item>
		<item id="71">
			<title><![CDATA[Confessions of an Edit Fiend]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/71</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Do you care? 

If Miles Davis' legendary Sketches of Spain recording was born only through extensive surgcal editing- do you care?

If Glenn Gould]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="68">
			<title><![CDATA[Can't Rant Grant Cant]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/68</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler has tried. He has. Several times. Federal. Provincial. Municipal.

No luck. No grants. Craps. Craps. Craps.

That's my disclosure]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="67">
			<title><![CDATA[Music Matter?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/67</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When you wake up. When you're in the shower. When you eat. When you drive.

At your desk. At the cafÃƒÂ©. While you walk. While you work out.

The]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="66">
			<title><![CDATA[Everyone Complains But...]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/66</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The music you hear nowadays is crap...

I can't stand the [insert music format here- pop, jazz, whatever] you hear nowadays...

Right. Trite. Mass]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="65">
			<title><![CDATA[Whatsa Pianobabbler?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/65</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler has been babbling pianistically for just under a year.

As we enter the Fall, it's time to re-introduce him. Me. It. Us. The Pianob]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="64">
			<title><![CDATA[Great! and Other Ways to Tell Someone They Suck]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/64</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You've come to see your friend perform.

She's a wonderful woman. Warm. Bright. You know she works non-stop at her music career. Making calls. Booki]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="63">
			<title><![CDATA[More for  Darwyn Aitken]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/63</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last January, the Pianobabbler paid homage to his late music and piano teacher Darwyn Aitken. It was by way of a column in Canadian Musician. See the ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="62">
			<title><![CDATA[Bob Dyl(ignor)an(ce): The Artist's Oblivion]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/62</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone take on an arts career?

It's highly competitive. Lots of aggression as you elbow for gigs and territory. Lots of rejection. Uncert]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="61">
			<title><![CDATA[Camraderie and Competitive Non-Competitors]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/61</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Athletes: someone wins, someone loses.

Lawyers: they lose. you win. Ahem.

Politicians. Manufacturers. Poker players. Same thing.

Many sectors]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="60">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales - vol. 8: Apothegms and Epigrams and Fractionated Fillips]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/60</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pinobabbler has amassed these thoughts and observations over the past months in New York: 

***
Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, Ethan From]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="59">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales - vol. 7: Handwashing Pizza Music Happy]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/59</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler is a fervent handwasher. But nothing prepared him for New York. Never have I had to was my hands as often as I do here.

Scrub scru]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="58">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales - vol. 6: Sir Paul Up High Melissa Below]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/58</link>
			<description><![CDATA[New York is the best walking city in the world. Paris may compete. Nothing comes near NY.

So, the Pianobabbler walks. A. Lot.

This day, it's a 1]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="57">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales- vol. 5: Unlustrous Stars]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/57</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Iridium Jazz Club- 51st Street & Broadway

Iridium is famous. It stands with the Blue Note  and the Village Vanguard as a jazz landmark. All the nam]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="56">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales- vol. 4: My Night at Smalls, My Lunch with Nicole]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/56</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Living in Toronto, the Pianobabbler is accustomed to celebrity.

There goes Renee Zellweger. Hey, that's Colm Feore. Hi Measha Brueggergosman, good ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="55">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales- vol. 3: Fireworks That Work]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/55</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Midtown West - Hudson River

No one but no one does big as well as New York does big.

It's the 4th of July. Independence Day. 233rd anniversary o]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="54">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales- vol. 2: The Canadians Sing]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/54</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Joe's Pub - NoHo

Canada Day. Yeeha!

Jeff Breithaupt, Cultural Affairs Officer at the Canadian Consulate in New York, has put a ton of work, skil]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="53">
			<title><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler's New York Tales - vol. 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/53</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Harlem

Michael Jackson died suddenly last Thursday. Sad. Tragic. 

Michael Jackson was an artist of great talent. Genius, even. He could sing. H]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="52">
			<title><![CDATA[Never Hide Stride Pride]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/52</link>
			<description><![CDATA[William told the Pianobabbler the other day that he loves to work with Fats Waller playing on his iPod.

William is 15 years old. His work is school]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="51">
			<title><![CDATA[The Bogeyfication of the Club Owner]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/51</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There was a meeting in Toronto recently. Town hall. Musicians. Mostly jazz musicians.

A handful thought club owners were getting the better of them]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="50">
			<title><![CDATA[It Hurts to Record]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/50</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Someone clicks a photo of you. They're using a super-hi resolution camera. 10 billion billion billion pixels. A closeup. Extreme closeup. You have no ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="49">
			<title><![CDATA[Piano Starts Here: Art Tatum]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/49</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Art Tatum. Talk about shock and awe.

The vagaries of taste impose caution. The "best", the "most", and the "greatest" are subjectives always open t]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="47">
			<title><![CDATA[The Labour of Music]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/47</link>
			<description><![CDATA[They walk on stage. They play. They make beautiful music. Everyone has fun. They walk off. The crowd cheers on and on.

The lights. The glamour. The]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="46">
			<title><![CDATA[Mommy- what's a "CD"?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/46</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you went into a CD store? When is the last time
you saw a CD store? When was the last time you bought a CD?

Your answer to ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="45">
			<title><![CDATA[The Scottish Name... Don't THINK About Mentioning It]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/45</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Theatre people will never talk about Shakespeare's Macbeth. They only talk about The Scottish Play. It's an old superstition. Go figure.

Well, the ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="44">
			<title><![CDATA[The Best Things In Life Are  Free. Sometimes.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/44</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler spent this past weekend toiling. Working his buns off. For free. A charity event. 

The event was successful, thankfully.

But it]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="42">
			<title><![CDATA[Billy Bob, the Brazilian, and the Misplaced Gaze]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/42</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two major arts events this week. 

One spectacularly public. One hermetically private. 

One a thoughtless wisp. One a thoughtful universe.

One]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="40">
			<title><![CDATA["If there is a future of peace for humankind...it will come from the artists."]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/40</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pianobabbler is not the Piano-babbler for nothing. he has things to say. His own things to say.

Once in a rare while, though, someone articulat]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="39">
			<title><![CDATA[Was It Something I Said? or How I Learned to Live Without a Juno Award]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/39</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a working jazz pianist based in Toronto, if I can utter one generality about Canadian musicians, itÃ¢€™s that we have made a commodity out of under]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="38">
			<title><![CDATA[The Jazz of Silence]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/38</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To talk or not to talk. To shush or not to shush.

The Pianobabbler is producing a new jazz series at Toronto's venerable Old Mill Inn. Upscaleish. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="37">
			<title><![CDATA[Ataraxia & the Jazzer]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/37</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ataraxia: freedom from disturbance and pain that characterizes a balanced mind and constitutes its first step toward the achievement of pleasure.

I]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 09 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<item id="36">
			<title><![CDATA[The Day Jazz Became Classical - Pt. 2]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/36</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are over 30. In fact I am over 30. But...

The Pianobabbler was surveying his audience recently. Great people, all. But nary]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="35">
			<title><![CDATA[The Day Jazz became Classical - Pt. 1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/35</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pianobabbler was talking to a late-teen saxophone player not long ago. He had applied to get into a university jazz program. He was nervous. He had to]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="34">
			<title><![CDATA[Music as Manual Labour]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/34</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I want to take a moment to acknowledge the manual labourers we call 'musicians'. 

Making music is  bodily, physical,, corporeal, muscular, tendon-u]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="33">
			<title><![CDATA[On The Sublime: Take 6]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/33</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Do you know the music of Take 6?

Many do. Most don't. But for me you may as well ask 'Do you know the music of Bach?' i.e. the highest point of mus]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="32">
			<title><![CDATA[A (Orches-)Tree Grows in Windsor]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/32</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I've just come back from a week of outreach for, and playing with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (WSO), rolling out my Symphronica jazz-meets-orchestr]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="31">
			<title><![CDATA[What, No Improv? Jazz's Little Secret]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/31</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of my music idols is Art Tatum. 

If you don't know who Art Tatum is, and you play piano, listen to him, and be prepared to weep. When another j]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		</item>
		<item id="30">
			<title><![CDATA[Slumdog Trite, Amal Bright: Who's the Millionaire?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/30</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A tale of two Indian movies from 2008. Similar themes. Money. Love. Parents. 

One of the movies is brilliant, nuanced, and fascinating. The other i]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="29">
			<title><![CDATA[For Darwyn Aitken]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/29</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My keyboard column in the latest issue of Canadian Musician is about my late, and truly great, piano teacher Darwyn Aitken. It's my own modest memoria]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="28">
			<title><![CDATA[Let 1000 (Jazz) Blossoms Bloom]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/28</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Remember the song Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Well. today's question, ladies and gentlemen, is Where Are All The Flowers Going? Jazz flowers, tha]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="27">
			<title><![CDATA[VOTE FOR DANIELA NARDI!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/27</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Daniela Nardi has been nominated Female vocalist of the year. Please consider voting for her at: www.canadiansmoothjazzawards.com. Just click on the ']]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="25">
			<title><![CDATA[Music- you sexy thing. Not.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/25</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A recent article  of The Economist  (I love The Economist) went on at length about the theory that we love music for Darwinian reasons.  Music is an a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="23">
			<title><![CDATA[Music High, Music Low, Music Good, Music Bad]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/23</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite quotes- meaning I pull it out regularly to tint the plain shapes of being's colouring book -comes from the late Northrop Frye (pic]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 09 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="22">
			<title><![CDATA[Pavla's Painting]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/22</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The wonderful artist Pavla Quinn has made a painting from the CD release concert for The Bestseller. 

The painting is a terrifically vibrant image ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="21">
			<title><![CDATA[Happy and Merry]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/21</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ron and everyone at RonDavisMusic.com want to wish you a Happy Holiday season, and all the best for the upcoming year. We're going to take a little br]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="20">
			<title><![CDATA[Donald Lambert- The Irrelevance of Talent]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/20</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hallelujah, Amen, Huzzah and Yippee. Video of Donald Lambert playing Anitra's Dance  has shown up on YouTube.

Donald Lambert. Who, you say?

When]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="19">
			<title><![CDATA[CD Bye Bye?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/19</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you were in a CD store?

If you're over 35, I'n guessing the answer will be something like "Let me see... not too long ago."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="18">
			<title><![CDATA[The Cartesian Nature of Music Business Advice]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/18</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The philosopher RenÃƒÂ© Descartes said: "Of all things, common sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks they are  so well supplied with i]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="17">
			<title><![CDATA[Organic Music and Symphronica]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/17</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I sometimes joke that I am less a professional jazz musician than a failed classical one. 

Like many kids of my era, musical training began with Co]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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		<item id="16">
			<title><![CDATA[Chambers on Popeye]]></title>
			<link>http://www.rondavismusic.com/blogitem/16</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We all know remarkable people. Few can be as remarkable as Jack Chambers.

A scholar of renown, Jack travels the world as a celebrated expert on soc]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Small Numbers, Big Task]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If you've poked around my website, you know I'm releasing a CD in Toronto this coming Thursday. 

I'm fortunate to be able to hold this concert in a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Knocks of the Music Biz and Richard Twardzik]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[News Flash: It's really really really hard to make it in the music biz.

I've been a litigation lawyer. I've been an award-winning PhD graduate. I'v]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jazzers on Obama]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Although I am a white Canadian male, my life is soaked through and through with the American music of largely African-American provenance: Jazz.  

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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Bestseller- My New CD]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OK. A blog shouldn't be marketing propaganda. If I want to sell you my new Cd, I should hawk it elsewhere.

But it come not to praise 'The Bestselle]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Awards Shmawards]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We're heading into awards season. In music, the big ones are the Junos (Canada) and the Grammys (U.S.)

It's great to win an award. Any musician who]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[RonDavisBlog - The Mission]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog. 

Music. Jazz. Classical. Arts. Piano. I love piano. Anti-fuzzy thinking. Anti-prefabricated positions. These will be the subjec]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 08 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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