…and the film score battle rages on. Cognoscenti who find borrowing in John William’s film scores, would have found the same in Bach and Mozart. For Goddess sake, they all three used the same notes of the scale! Once again, a source I most admire – this time a Midwestern journalist who shall remain nameless – took a swipe… Read more →
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May You Live In Interesting Times
The irony of the contemporary anonymous bromide, May you live in interesting times, a curse masquerading as a blessing, has never been truer during my lifetime than now, November of 2016. America’s former poet laureate Robert Haas has the eloquence and grace to offer a deeper context with Faint Music, especially this excerpt: “…When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is… Read more →
Remembering Arleen Auger
With a nod to David Letterman’s entertaining bit, Brush with Greatness, I often recall my personal encounter with the lovely soprano, Arleen Auger, as a student at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri in Kansas City, at my part time job with The Friends of Chamber Music, the producing organization for her local concert appearance. As was typical for many of her American contemporaries, after… Read more →