“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas
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Sunday Baroque
“I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.” ~ George Friedrich Handel *** George Friedrich Händel (1685 –
I Shook The Hand That Never Shook Rachmaninov’s Hand
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
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
Dispatches from the Asylum 