Attila The Hun and Mao Tse-Tung in Song and Dance
I managed to crowd my Opera season into two evenings a few weeks ago, no longer able to afford the tariff for …
Category Archives: Music
Nuclear Summer: Remembered in Song
Every August, the four days of the 6th through the 9th ring like a mournful bell in the memories of …
Earl Scruggs, 88: Gone
Oh man! Do I remember the first time I heard Flatt and Scruggs light up the room I was sequestered …
Me Gusta La Gente Simple
Facundo Cabral is an Argentine singer known in folk-circles around the world and especially in Latin America. He will strongly remind …
Don’t Go Near the Water — Johnny Cash
Don’t know how I missed this back when the old man was with us and singing it. Amy Goodman played …
New Orleans: A Film
Drawn by the promise of seeing a young Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday on film, doing what they were best …
Ai Yi Yi Yiiii!
Great music, new to my ears, brought by a nice opinion article in the NY times. Los Cenzontles — the …
Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel
In my new zeal to see all the movies I’ve ever missed I saw The Story of the Weeping Camel …
Film: Shut Up and Sing
A couple of us went to see Shut Up and Sing over the weekend. The short recommendation is: Go See …
Music: Mali
Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the …
Eroica
The San Francisco Symphony has produced a fabulous on-line exposition of Beethoven’s Symphony #3 in E-Flat Major; the Eroica. You …
Woody Guthrie
I don’t have a lot of heros. Woody Guthrie is right at the top. For years I picked and sang …