Sunday, December 11, 2022

Repast Baroque Ensemble performing music of the Italian baroque.

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Martha and I have been fans of the  Repast Baroque Ensemble ; indeed, have been friends of the musicians, for  almost a decade . This video ...
Saturday, December 03, 2022

The Wayfarers: Appalachian roots music from Southeastern Ohio

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If you've been following this blog for a while, you know that my taste in music is wide ranging. It includes pre-baroque through contemp...
Monday, October 17, 2022

The delights of the Fenimore Art Museum: Part 2: decorative arts, Hirschfeld caricatures, and Americans in Venice

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Across the hall from the  Florida Highwaymen exhibit  was a sign indicating that the gallery there featured "Fanfare for America: 19th ...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Run Rose Run, by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

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Until a few weeks ago I was one of, I'm sure, a minority of regular American book readers who had never read anything by James Patterson...
Sunday, September 04, 2022

The delights of the Fenimore Art Museum: Part 1, Ralph Fasanella and The Florida Highwaymen

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  The Fenimore Art Museum is on the outskirts of the Village of Cooperstown, New York , named for William Cooper, who founded it in 1786. T...

Pete Seeger - "The Bells Of Rhymney" - live in Australia 1964

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This song began as a poem, "Gwalia Deserta XV", by Idris Davies . "Gwalia Deserta" translates as "Wasteland of Wal...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-2022

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 By no reasonable person's standards could he be considered a saint. Attaining the position he held at the apex of his power, General Se...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

A Visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame

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Our return to the Glimmerglass Opera Festival put us close to Cooperstown, New York, best known for being the home of the National Baseball...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Return to Glimmerglass: Carmen, The Sound of Music, Tenor Overboard, and two new short operas

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Two weekends ago, after a two year hiatus, Martha and I joined our friends Marc and Stewart for a return to the  Glimmerglass Festival , hel...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Paradise Square: ten Tony nominations well deserved

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If the name  Joaquina Kalukango  isn't familiar to you, as it wasn't to me until a few days ago when she was nominated for the Tony ...
Monday, May 09, 2022

The Mets are 20-10; should I be worried?

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My wife is a Red Sox fan. I've dealt with this by declaring them my favorite American League team (I can no longer call it the "Pho...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Does time show the wiser? Fairport Convention from 1967 and 2017

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Fairport Convention recorded their version of Emitt Rhodes' "Time Will Show the Wiser" in November of 1967, and it was includ...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Happy 337th, Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on this date -- the calendar in effect at the time of his birth gave the date as March 31, but by today's...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Pete Hamill and the Clancy Brothers -- a St. Patrick's Day reflection.

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I first met Pete Hamill in 1994, at a Barnes & Noble bookstore on Fifth Avenue in Midtown. He was there signing copies of his newly publ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Loudmouth by Robert Duncan

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Robert Duncan's Loudmouth  was published in October of 2020, and I've had my copy for just over a year. Various things have delayed ...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

How best do we honor Dr. King today?

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On May 15, 1957, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech to a group assembled for a Prayer Pilgrimag...
Monday, January 03, 2022

Remembrances and appreciations, 2021

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A year ago I did a separate post to  show 2020 the door . I'm sure we can all agree that 2021 has, on balance, been less than delightful...
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