“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin, …
Tag Archives: Music
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert …
Pete Seeger: Gone
The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger …
War Requiem – Music that Moves the Soul
I’ve been wanting to be at a full performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem ever since I first heard about …
Holding on to the Music in WW II London
Bach, Grieg and World War II would seem to make an odd trio if you went no further than scanning …
Stride Piano at SF Jazz
Wow! I had not been to the new SF Jazz center which opened this past January until Sunday night when …
Toshi Seeger Gone
What a great woman and companion Toshi Seeger was! A good life lived. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer …
Stop The War (The Cats Are Killing Themselves)
Michael Herr mentions this old classic in the opening pages of his Vietnam war memoir/reportage, Dispatches. Stop The War (The …
Dueling the Devil on a Ranard-Ek in Thailand
The tale of a possessed guitar player dueling with the devil to reclaim his soul is well known among American blues fans. …
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 …
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 …