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		<title>The 18th Christmas Concert come and gone&#8212;SO much gratitude&#8211;Thinking about artists today-what makes them great-Why is Radiohead so satisfying regularly and why are artists like Sting so rare and U2 and Joni Mitchell?? Where are they now?? Or are they here but we just don&#8217;t realize it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I got off the stage last night and we had played three hours of music. It was an odd mix and because I have had the great fortune (received the great gift) of working with some of the greatest artists in the world recently from Sting to Springsteen I often find myself wondering what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmathes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11551892&amp;post=315&amp;subd=robmathes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humbugs and the Santa lovers&#8211;All God&#8217;s People need a little love under the Sun&#8212;writing while listening to Bon Iver&#8217;s Skinny Love&#8211;Great Song!!&#8211;MUSICIANS!!!&#8212;Ah&#8211;with fingers and air&#8211;not just rebooting and pushing buttons though that&#8217;s ok too.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all, I had two diametrically opposed experiences regarding the Christmas Concert today and I love when that happens though I wish the second had happened first and vice versa. First I ran into a guy in Starbucks who said this, &#8220;Rob, we&#8217;re coming Saturday night to the show. We would not miss it for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmathes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11551892&amp;post=641&amp;subd=robmathes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The concert is coming, the concert is coming. Santa, help bring baskets of cats and kittens to Purchase on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Loving me some Wilco, Strayhorn, Radiohead, Feist, Goat Rodeo and Ryan Adams, Stravinsky always and man oh man!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come one come all. Come one come all. Never assume we will let up in our pursuit of musical epiphanies. Never assume that William The Angel will just grab himself a turkey sandwich with a little mustard and sit by the side of the road playing Jingle Bells Blues while watching the clock. No No [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmathes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11551892&amp;post=228&amp;subd=robmathes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concert, Concert, Concert, we&#8217;ll make it out of sound and in about 10 days we hope you&#8217;ll come around. (Sung to the tune of the Dreidel Song at the top of one&#8217;s lungs)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why you ask?? Why would one want to subject themselves to more busyness, another place to have to BE during this insane season?? Why, why, WHY??? (wringing of hands held high towards the sky in an almost Shawshank Redemption like pose). Well&#8230;.. I must say Christmas/Holiday concerts fall into a number of categories. The ones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmathes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11551892&amp;post=310&amp;subd=robmathes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December Update&#8211;gone for a while and back again&#8211;Kennedy Center Honors 2011-The insane Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer-the divine Stuart Duncan-John Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well good people, back home from the wars. DC was ablaze last night with the annual shindig they call the Kennedy Center Honors, this year honoring Meryl Streep, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Barbara Cook, and Yo-Yo Ma. I have been musically directing the show for producers George and Michael Stevens since 2003 and it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robmathes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11551892&amp;post=229&amp;subd=robmathes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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