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. Tamborine Man
• Proud Mary
• Satisfaction
• She's Always a Woman
• That's Alright

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

Christmas Playlists

Favorite Christmas Songs:

• All I Want for Christmas is You by Kelly Clarkson
• All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• Bakin' Cookies
• Because It's Christmas
• Believe from The Polar Express
• Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)
• Carol of the Bells
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• Christmas in the Islands
• Christmas Island
• Christmas Kisses
• The Christmas Song by The Raveonettes
• Christmas Waltz
• Christmastime is Here
• Cold December Night
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Deck the Halls
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• Do They Know It's Christmas?
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Extraordinary Merry Christmas
• Feliz Navidad
• First Noel
• Frosty the Snowman
• God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
• Grandma Got Run Over by A Reindeer
• Happy Days by Backstreet Boys
• Happy Holidays/ The Holiday Season
• Happy Xmas (War is Over)
• Hard Candy Christmas
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• A Holly Jolly Christmas
• Homeless from the Forgotten Carols
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
• I Saw Three Ships
• I Wish it Was Christmas Today
• I'll Be Home for Christmas
• Ice Dance from Edward Scissorhands
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
• Joy to the World
• Kiss Me at Midnight
• Last Christmas
• Let it Snow!
• Like it's Christmas by Jonas Brothers
• Little Jack Frost Get Lost
• Little Saint Nick
• Mary's Boy Child
• A Marshmallow World
• Mele Kalikimaka
• Merry Christmas Darling
• Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
• Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
• Mistletoe and Holly
• The Most Wonderful Day of the Year
• My Grown Up Christmas List
• My Christmas Tree
• My Favorite Things
• O Christmas Tree
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• O Holy Night
• Once Upon a December from Anastasia
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Run Rudolph Run
• Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
• Santa Tell Me
• Silent Night
• Silver Bells
• Silver and Gold
• Sleigh Ride
• Snow from White Christmas
• Someday at Christmas
• Somewhere in My Memory
• (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
• Take Me Home for Christmas
• This Christmas
• Toyland
• Under the Mistletoe
• Underneath the Tree
• Up on the House Top
• We Need a Little Christmas
• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
• Welcome Christmas
• What Christmas Means to Me
• White Christmas
• Winter Wonderland
• Wonderful Christmastime
• You Make it Feel it Like Christmas

Favorite Christmas Albums

• The Andy Williams Christmas Album
• Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems
• Christmas by Michael Buble
• Christmas at Home by Donny Osmond
• Christmas Party by She and Him
• Christmas Portrait by The Carpenters
• Holiday for Swing by Seth MacFarlane
• Home for Christmas by N Sync
• A Legendary Christmas by John Legend
• Noel by Josh Groban
• Rejoyce by Jessica Simpson
• This Christmas by 98 Degrees
• A Very Kacey Christmas
• Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson
• You Make it Feel Like Christmas by Gwen Stefani

Favorite Christmas Soundtracks:

• Anastasia
• Annie
• Babes in Toyland
• Elf
• The Forgotten Carols
• Frozen
• Glee
• Holiday Inn
• Home Alone
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Rent
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Scrooge
• White Christmas

Ogden Park Lights

 

Seen Live

Musicians and Shows I have seen live:

1992:

• Scrooge

1993:

• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Kenny Loggins

1994:

• Beauty and the Beast
• Pete's Dragon

1996:

• Carousel
• Pirates of Penzance
• Secret Garden

1997:

• Oklahoma!
• Phantom of the Opera

2000:

• Annie Get Your Gun
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Oklahoma!

2001:

• Damn Yankees
• Forever Plaid
• Little Shop of Horrors

2002:

• Annie Get Your Gun
• You Can't Take it With You

2003:

• All in the Timing
• Deadwood Dick
• Jon Peter Lewis
• Oklahoma!

2004:

• Ashlee Simpson
• John Mayer
• Maroon 5
• Snoop Dogg
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

2006:

• Yolanda Barber

2007:

• Finding Nemo
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

2012:

• Aladdin

2013:

• Annie
• Beauty and the Beast
• Dancing with the Stars Live (with Joey Fatone, Tia Carrerre, Carson Kressley, Sabrina Bryan)
• Fiddler on the Roof

2014:

• Les Miserables

2015:

• Brian Wilson
• Damn Yankees
• Mary Poppins
• Rodriguez

2016:

• Amber Riley
• Jersey Boys
• Singin' in the Rain
• Three Amigos

2017:

• Human Nature

2018:

• Home School Musical
• The Little Mermaid
• Newsies

2019:

• Backstreet Boys
• Dionne Warwick
• Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Scrooge

2020:

• Footloose
• Frozen
• Tarzan

2021:

• Anastasia
• Big Fish
• Bright Star
• Matilda
• The Sound of Music

2022:

• Marcus Anthony
• Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry
• Rose Short
• Shrek
• Singin' in the Rain
• Sophia Bollman
• Tarzan
• Tuck Everlasting
• West Side Story

2023:

• Camelot
• Elf
• Freaky Friday
• Mamma Mia!
• White Christmas

2024:

• Bye Bye Birdie
• Newsies
• Oklahoma!

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