It is eerily fitting that last Saturday’s centennial of modern jazz genius Charlie Parker’s birth should have fallen in the midst of a global pandemic.…
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Across four nights, the televised program of the Republican National Convention had all the drama of an interminable student piano recital in which one put-upon…
Politically packaged, extended-play infomercials (i.e., conventions) make abundant use of music. Partly this has to do with the necessity of cleansing the palate and the…
Raving about Joe: What if grandad showed up at a rave? You’d probably be smart to dip out of the nearest exit and find your…
Last Friday night while protesters were being shoved into unmarked vans in Portland by federal paramilitaries, PBS broadcast George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in its Great Performances…
While a White Man President raved in front of dead White Man Presidents in South Dakota, a couple of those same stone faces were re-animated…
Born in 1929, the masterful composer Ennio Morricone, who died this week at the age of 91, made his entrance into the world just after…
With all the talk of meddling in U. S. elections and bounties on U.S. soldiers, it’s no small wonder that a Russian named Berlin can…
Streaming services have inundated the world’s quarantined population. The rising digital waters have distracted and anesthetized viewers, but also, at times, buoyed and instructed them.…
Somewhere in my mother’s photo albums is a picture taken by my father of the teenage me standing on a viewing platform above the Dry…
The Lockdown has sparked a renaissance in correspondence. I’ve been exchanging postcards with my mother and letters with my youngest nephew. Emails have gotten longer,…