The power of music
This afternoon I had an operation in which the doctor grafted tissue from my palate to the gums around my…
This afternoon I had an operation in which the doctor grafted tissue from my palate to the gums around my…
What do you mean that the Concert for Bangla Desh happened almost 50 years ago?!? That was just one of…
Just returned from my second night of intense, live music. Looking forward to two more nights next week: the Chieftains…
It’s time to sing, to sing our way through this time of sorrow, pain, and anger. Time to stop listening…
Why did Orpheus look back? In the fullsomely-staged student production of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo in Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium in…
According to family legend, my father (or maybe it was his uncle Jim … you know how vague family legends…
We’re out in Southfield, MI, visiting Anne Mei’s grandparents, Joe and Sophia Rivkin. Joe turned 100 just after Thanksgiving. He’s…
Bach wrote some of his most exquisite music about Zachary and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist. The “Benedictus”…
One of the things I enjoy most about driving up to Syracuse for the Baroque Ensemble, besides listening to Anne…
During Laura’s first course of chemo and radiation, I invoked a scene from Mozart’s The Magic Flute in the CaringBridge blog to…