Insanity, nuttiness, absurdities….you know – what you see and maybe, unfortunately, experience about anytime you step out of your cocoon called home and venture out into the matrix. Can it get any more insane? Sure! As we here at the… Read More ›
Music
Magnificent Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was one of the few composers who have encapsulated the dilemma of being a 20th-century creative artist quite as poignantly as Prokofiev. He was already composing by the age of six, and wrote his first opera, The… Read More ›
Do You Like Our Arrowheads?
When I was in my 20’s, in what seems to be a different lifetime ago, I worked in the oil industry. I was what was known as a “Landman”, which involved criss-crossing the Western states, hoping to sign farmers and… Read More ›
Remarkable Disinclinations
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams No one likes to be told, well, really anything. It… Read More ›
Saturday Afternoon Vibes
There’s already a traffic issue heading up to Wyoming to get in line with the other 600 thousand or so for the eclipse, so we heard on the radio. Henry’s attitude toward folks’ determination to find daytime darkness, along with… Read More ›
Musical Interlude – Gabriel Fauré – A Happy Deliverance
“Everything I managed to entertain in the way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.” ~ Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Fauré composed his… Read More ›
Thieving Magpies
La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is a two act opera by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Giovanni Gherardini was based on the 1815 comedy La Pie Voleuse by JMT Badouin d’Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The story tells… Read More ›
Mid-Day Interlude – George Frideric Handel’s “Water Music Suite”
For classical music lovers, and in particular, Baroque music lovers, today, July 17th, marks a bloody good day as it is the 300th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s Water Music Suite. The work premiered on July 17, 1717, in response… Read More ›
Looking for “The Appian Way” and Resisting the Ugliness
The Appian Way or Via Appia Antica in Rome is one of the most famous ancient roads. It was built in 312 B.C. by Appius Claudius Caecus. In it’s entirety it spanned 350 miles(563kms). The Appian Way stretched from the… Read More ›
Happy 4th!
In yet another apparent screw-up by the gaggle of two-bit politicians and mainstream media hacks who continue to carry on with their Russian hysterics, they overlooked banning one of the stellar pieces of music played on this day to celebrate… Read More ›
