Unlike the days following Osama bin Laden’s death on May 2nd, 2011, the tenth anniversary of his killing passed without hoopla in the American Homeland.…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
Remember going to the library? I miss the reading rooms most—the busy hush of reading and research underway; the reluctance of old pages being turned;…
J.S. Bach’s two musical confrontations with taxes span his career composing and performing cantatas. Nur jedem das Seine (To Each His Own!), BWV 163, dates…
I live between a gorge and a graveyard. The gorge just to the south began forming some ten thousand years ago at the end of…
Texas loosens, Italy locks down. With the skies mostly still clear and quiet, one can hear the collective champing at the bit before the gates open...
February 15th marked the 400th anniversary of Michael Praetorius’s death. It passed without fanfare or flourish, though this musical titan was a master of both.…
A month and a day after the storming of the Capitol came the national rites of healing. These were enacted not in an atmosphere of…
Here in Upstate New York nearly two feet of snow blanket the ground. Old Timers reminiscence over Zoom cocktails about the real winters of their…
In 1835 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hailed music as “the universal language of mankind.” Few would disbelieve him and deny themselves the comfort of the cliché…