Liberated Dissonance

There's a blogger with too much time on his hands who likes to rewrite pop lyrics in the style of Shakespearean sonnets.  (See popsonnet...

Thinking about Robin Williams led me back to Edward Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory": Whenever Richard Cory went down tow...

Saddened as I am by the suicide of Robin Williams, I have to admit I lost interest in his work early in his career. He first caught my atte...

Cycled out to Valley Forge, Where Friedrich breakfasted with George, Relishing, with Prussian zest, The Continental sausage fest.

Thinking of Charles Ives and the hostile reaction his music has weathered from so many professional musicians,  I'm reminded of his conf...

Lately I've been obsessed (in a healthy way, I think) with Mozart's E flat Piano Concerto K. 271, and this morning I received in the...

Sunday I biked to the Morris Arboretum where Martha Knox was selling her woodcuts at an art show. Just to show my support, I purchased a ...

Bramwell Tovey will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Mann Center on June 27. I won't be abl...

Jeremy Denk has written a sympathetic and characteristically chatty review  in the the New York Review of Books of Stephen Budiansky's n...

My humanist friend Martha Knox, a mother and woodcut artist who recently spent some time in the  the hospital for a gallstone, celebrated ...