This year we set out on the last weekend of September for our annual trek from Ithaca at the south end of Lake Cayuga to…
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To drive out of the city of Ithaca in Upstate New York in October you need music. The hills are just beginning to show the…
The National Association of Piano Dealers reported 364,545 sales of new instruments in the United States in 1909. That was four times the number of…
Try whistling a few bars of the Star-Spangled Banner in downtown Kabul if you want to find out how effective a national anthem is at…
For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of…
A song of protest has made it to the front page of The New York Times and to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.…
Near the close of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that make up his epic Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Donner…
For music lovers possessed of even a dollop of reason September was a grim month as paeans to George Gershwin crescendoed toward mega-sforzando on the…
What does Barbie sound like? The original doll’s blonde hair, pointed toes and pointed breasts define her look, but her voice was, until the sing-song-then-sadistic…