Music of 2023

Albums I Listened to the Most in 2023:

• Anastasia
• Aurora by Daisy Jones and the Six
• Barbie
• The Color Purple
• Elf: The Musical
• Footloose
• Freaky Friday: The Musical
• Grease
• Home Alone
• The Little Mermaid
• Mamma Mia!
• Phantom of the Opera
• A Very She & Him Christmas
• White Christmas
• Wonka

Artists I Listened to the most in 2023:

• Abba
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Bee Gees
• Britney Spears
• Donna Summer
• Earth, Wind, and Fire
• Elton John
• Frank Sinatra
• George Michael
• John Williams
• Kelly Clarkson
• Lionel Richie
• Michael Buble
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Stevie Wonder

Songs I listened to most in 2023:

• After the Love Has Gone
• All I Want for Christmas is You
• Dancing Queen
• Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
• Flowers
• Holding Out for A Hero
• I Will Survive
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Let's Stay Together
• Livin' on a Prayer
• No Scrubs
• Over the Rainbow
• Part of Your World
• White Christmas

AmaWaterways Cruise Playlist

Disco Dance Party

• Boogie Wonderland
• Dancing Queen
• Every Breath You Take
• Footloose
• Sweet Caroline
• Take Me Home, Country Road
• YMCA

Erwin Nyhoff

•  All of Me
• All Along the Watchtower
• Brown Eyed Girl
• Have You Ever Seen the Rain
• Homeward Bound
• Imagine
• Johnny B. Goode
• Mr. Tambourine Man
• Proud Mary
• Satisfaction
• She's Always a Woman
• That's All Right

Piano and DJ Man

• All My Ex's Live in Texas
• Bad Moon Rising
• Bikers Shuffle
• Blueberry Hill
• Can't Help Falling in Love
• Chattahoochee
• Cotton Eyed Joe
• Crazy
• Cupid Shuffle
• Dancing Queen
• Disco Inferno
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• Eye in The Sky
• Friends in Low Places
• I'm Still Standing
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• La Bamba
• Let's Groove
• Super Freak
• Sweet Caroline
• Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

String Quartet

• The Godfather
• Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
• The Pink Panther
• Sway

Movies of 2023

Best Movies I watched in 2023:

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
• The Color Purple
• Barbie
• A Man Called Otto
• Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
• Wonka
• The Flash
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

TV of 2023

Best TV shows I watched in 2023:

• Ahsoka
• The Challenge
• The Chosen
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• House of Villains
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• The Terminal List
• The Traitors
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
• The Walking Dead: Dead City

Christmas Orchestra Concert

 We went to the Orchestra Christmas Concert at Syracuse High.  Here are the songs they performed:

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Christmastime is Here
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• First Noel
• Good King Wenceslas
• Happy Holidays/ Holiday Season
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• Jingle Bells
• Joy to the World
• The Nutcracker Suite
• Silent Night
• Sleigh Ride
• Sleighin' It
• What Child is This?
• We Three Kings

Station Park

 

Books of 2023

 Best Books I Read in 2023:

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Salt to the Sea by Ruth Sepetys
• The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
• The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Ogden Park Lights

 

Elf

 My mom and I went and saw a live production of the musical, Elf, based on the movie.

White Christmas

My family and I went and saw a live production of White Christmas at the CenterPoint Legacy Theater.  What was really cool, is that they had it snow on the audience during the final act.  

 

Camelot

My mom and I went and saw a live production of Camelot at Syracuse High School.

 

Aulani