The first musical technology I remember operating, from the age of five, was an Estey upright piano. The second was a stereo, the make of…
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At least since homo sapiens first howled at the moon, music has been the best medium for baring the soul. The tight-trousered, atavistic power-chording of…
From now on when you google the phrase “lip service” you should by rights be taken directly to the video of the members of Iranian…
Thanksgiving was born of war: first, colonial conquest masquerading as concord, then a means to bind the nation in the midst of the Civil War.…
Amidst reports that the red-hot Berlin property market is cooling off (literally so, given the steep rise in energy prices) comes a new product placement…
Bainbridge Island is in the Puget Sound a 30-minute ferry ride from Seattle. These ferries are not quaint little crafts, but monster vessels that can…
Ithaca, New York — After spending three weeks in Seattle, smoke-choked from the Bolt Creek Fire burning north of the city, I returned to Upstate…
Most tools spend far more time in the toolbox than in the hands of the craftsman. Likewise, most musical instruments are silent not sounding, seen…
Since its birth as a distinct category Classical Music has been allied with War. The orchestra as a European institution came into existence in the…
(Warning: I’m really not sure if this review is one big spoiler. Any movie with a central reveal risks its own spoilation, especially when the…
It was all about the Queen until it wasn’t. And it was precisely at that point that Charles didn’t sing along. When it came time…