I didn’t vault happily into the New Year, but slunk into it by way of the cinema, on January 1st taking in a double bill…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
One of the longest milliseconds I ever lived through came before the beginning of the Dies irae from Mozart’s Requiem. The members of the Stanford…
Edward Winslow’s Good Newes from New-England published in 1624 in London begins its account in November of 1621. There is no word of the first…
One of the most widespread platitudes about music is that it is a universal language: thus the golden LP of the Voyager spacecraft launched in…
Last week’s 6.0 earthquake epicentered in California’s Napa Valley was taken by a few evangelical types as a warning sign from God against the endemic…
An early August road trip heading east from the city of Ithaca in the middle of New York State to southern Vermont promises calm, pastoral…
You might think that nothing is more British than young Prince George, the toddler who recently turned one and whose birth has plagued tabloids and…
We approach the twentieth anniversary of the wilderness trek of the two greatest radical journalists of our time: the late Alexander Cockburn and Bruce Anderson,…
In our present digital age many once-beloved pianos are junked rather than sold, as a trying NY Times video of a couple years ago unsparingly…
Ithaca, New York — Come mid-May in the Finger Lakes of central New York the landscape transforms itself as if overnight. Little more than a…
If forced to choose between a close-range battering from the vuvuzela—the infamous plastic horn that pierced the global eardrum during the last World Cup held…