Liberated Dissonance

Cthulu Autumn begins Thursday, and as the weather gets cooler, I will have the energy to return to more serious, or at least more diffi...

In an earlier post, I referred to Florence Foster Jenkins, portrayed by Meryl Streep in the eponymous film, as a horror. Now,  however, the...

Spenser is back, busting the bad guys and overeating, in Slow Burn, Ace Atkins' fifth attempt to extend Robert Parker's deathless fr...

Smon Helberg, Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins. Helberg plays Cosme McMoon, Florence's accompanist. Grant is her...

Steve Kramer plays Bach Last month, the Times Herald building in Norristown was closed, to save money, and the staff was scattered to t...

Yesterday afternoon I went to the movies  for the first time in years. The feature that, at long last, lured me out of my apartment on a we...

One of the few nonfiction books I’ve bothered to read this year is The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ging...

Aubrey and Angela Webber, with Max, the cat keyboard. This will in all likelihood be my last post about Aubrey and Angela Webber, the m...

The chamber recital this weekend by The Fine Art Music Company demonstrated just how fruitful thematic programming can be. Take a simple co...

As I wrote in my previous post, I spent all day Sunday at one musical salon or another. One of the nicest things about it was that, for a fu...