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We've had a great year on Sinden.org (maybe even our best yet?) and here's some of the best we've found:

Best CD

We didn't even know what a lautenwerck was before hearing this disc (and heck, we still wouldn't recognize a lautenwerck if it bumped into us on the street), but we love the way it sounds. And in the hands of a non-ecclesiastical John Paul, a collection of underperformed music of Herbert Howells comes to life in a spectacular way. (Howells, Herbert (1892-1983) - recorded on lautenwerck)

Best Criticism from a Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer

You look like God

Harbison, John - praise from

Best Esoteric Pun

Best Exposé of the Homophobia and Illiteracy of a Republican Student Organization President at a Large State School

You'd have to be a frat boy named Shane Kennedy to say:

If you are going to talk like you are gay, then Ann Coulter is going to call you gay.

Shane "doesn't take life to serious [sic]", but he sure didn't like my article. gay - talking like you are

Second place in the dumb Republican category: Best Exposé of the Musical Illiteracy of a Republican President: In this episode shrub pretends that a commercially released recording somehow impinges on the integrity of a legislated piece of music. Damn those activist record labels! (banner - Spanish spangled

Best Firing of Small Artillery

Boom. Capt. Sinden fires the cannon at Lake Delaware Boys Camp, July 2006. (Photo: Anna Gray)

Best Photos of Non-Christian Organs in Cincinnati

more photos

Best Musicological Mystery

A unknown Moravian composer extends an unexpectedly long reach.

Krommer, Franz (1759-1831) - connection to Schübler Chorales, barbershop

Best Religious Rambling

It's an interesting concept, and we're still thinking a lot about it and applying it to other stuff.

Trinity - as perpetual birthing

Best Yet

Maybe this year was the best so far, but we at Sinden.org are confident that the best is yet to come.

Although figured bass - how to realize was definitely one of our favorites.

Labels: Best of Sinden.org, Howells