Saturday, February 01, 2014

Lou Reed and Sharon Jones, "Sweet Jane"

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Once again, Eliot Wagner of Now I've Heard Everything comes through with a great video, this one courtesy of Connie Lynchitz , of Lou R...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger, who died yesterday at 94, was an inspiration to the generation of folksingers who were popular during my high school and col...
Monday, January 27, 2014

J. Press gets the New York real estate squeeze; Gray's Papaya in the Village goes down the hatch.

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This post is about two New York City institutions--although the first is principally a New Haven institution and my first contact with it...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Claudio Abbado, 1933-2014.

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Claudio Abbado, one of the greatest orchestra conductors of the past half century, died today at the age of eighty. He was at various tim...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Impressions, "We're a Winner."

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A week ago I attended a "Free the Slaves" concert at Plymouth Church. The headline act was The Impressions, and they opened their...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925.

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John Singer Sargent is remembered as a portrait painter, mostly of elegant women elegantly posed and dressed, like The Wyndham Sisters . ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Kathleen Edwards and the Good Lovelies cover America: the messengers transform the message.

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Even back in the early 1970s, when I eagerly collected John Denver albums, I found the group America insufferably boring. Their first hit, ...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Hepzibah, the Airborne Ranger.

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She prepares for a leap from her favorite perch . Geronimo!
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Elvis Presley, "Hard Headed Woman"

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WHY, WHEN THE CREEDENCE CLEARWTER PUT OUT WITH THEIR "TRAVELIN' BAND" EVERYBODY SAY WHEEE-OO  BUT I KNOW IT CAUSE THEY ONLY ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Bob Dylan, "Pretty Saro"

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Bob Dylan's 1970 album  Self Portrait seemed, almost as much as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music,  to be a raised middle finger to hi...

Hillel Livingston Seagull

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That which is hateful to you, do not do to another....The rest is commentary. Go study.
Monday, January 06, 2014

Moon over Brooklyn II

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'I saw the new moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

New Year's remembrances, thank-yous, and resolutions.

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When I started my morning walk on New Year's Day the first song my iPod served up was the Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot B...

Phil Everly, 1939-2014

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Phil Everly, the younger of the Everly Brothers (at left in photo) died Friday , less than a month shy of his 75th birthday. My introduc...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Noah Griffin, "It's New Year's Eve"

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My friend and law school classmate Noah Griffin sings a song he wrote for his wife. Happy New Year to all.
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Yusef Lateef, 1920-2013.

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My introduction to the music of Yusef Lateef, who died Monday at 93, came in 1967, when I was a first year law student. My dorm neighbor, B...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Veni Veni Emmanuel

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Veni Veni Emmanuel ("O Come, O Come Emmanuel") sounds ancient, but had its origin as an Advent hymn in the eighteenth century. It...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Gram, Emmylou, and Linda; Emmylou, Dolly, and Linda

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When I go for walks, I usually take my iPod set in the "shuffle" mode. Because of my eclectic interests in music, this sometimes l...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Another Annunciation scene, from the Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights Advent Pageant

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My most popular post over the course of the past year has been about Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting, "The Annunciation," wh...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Moon over Brooklyn.

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Yesterday afternoon I saw this bright waxing gibbous moon rising over one of the buildings in MetroTech Center .
Monday, December 09, 2013

iPod and photo log: across the Brooklyn Bridge and back.

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Another iPod and photo log (or, if you prefer, photo log with music). This one is longer than the one I posted on November 27, as this tim...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

This Year's Lionel Train Display at Grand Central Terminal

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For the past two years I've been making videos of the Lionel Train display at the New York City Transit Museum Annex and Gift Shop in ...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

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Two of his many memorable quotations (thanks to Huffington Post ): What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is wh...