When I was 18 years old, 44 years ago, working as a cook in a local hospital, a white mustached, gruff-looking man, who was also
Category: Music
Sunday Baroque
“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the
The Everyday, Suffering Soul Gets It
The challenges of life, and all its varied insanities, gives one pause (actually, many pauses) wondering what in the hell is this life all about.
Sunday Baroque
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BMV 1048 In 1721, J.S. Bach dedicated six orchestral pieces to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg, ostensibly in response
Sunday Baroque
Bach ~ Orchestral Suite No. 2 In is unknown when exactly Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067. It
Saturday Bossa Nova
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled
Dispatches from the Asylum 