Presently aging
What do you mean that the Concert for Bangla Desh happened almost 50 years ago?!? That was just one of…
Tag: #music
Rocking with a seven string bass viol
Just returned from my second night of intense, live music. Looking forward to two more nights next week: the Chieftains…
Bella Ciao
It’s time to sing, to sing our way through this time of sorrow, pain, and anger. Time to stop listening…
Don’t look back.
Why did Orpheus look back? In the fullsomely-staged student production of Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo in Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium in…
The next figure in the dance.
According to family legend, my father (or maybe it was his uncle Jim … you know how vague family legends…
Allegro for Grandpa
We’re out in Southfield, MI, visiting Anne Mei’s grandparents, Joe and Sophia Rivkin. Joe turned 100 just after Thanksgiving. He’s…
Heart and mouth and deed and life. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben.
Bach wrote some of his most exquisite music about Zachary and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist. The “Benedictus”…
Discovering new old music
One of the things I enjoy most about driving up to Syracuse for the Baroque Ensemble, besides listening to Anne…
We walk by the power of klezmer.
During Laura’s first course of chemo and radiation, I invoked a scene from Mozart’s The Magic Flute in the CaringBridge blog to…
An early gift
On the Feast of St. Nicholas I drove up to Syracuse to attend another semester-end concert with the Baroque Ensemble…