Today’s Rhapsody is one I confess I hadn’t heard of before. I confess in doing this exercise after I finished the cursory sweep of all of the Rhapsodies everyone knows and then doing all of the Rhapsodies that were on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I’m sure some people will disagree with me, in my own way I consider myself a patriot. I love my country and as a scholar of history, I believe in exceptionalism (though I don’t deny the existence of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I always find myself being drawn to super heroes. As a cartoonist one of my dreams growing up was to be part of the Marvel Bullpen drawing all of my favorites. I made up my own characters and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just stumbled over a review of a new recording of some of his piano work, so for today’s Rhapsody let’s return to Ern? Dohnányi with his Rhapsody in C Major Op.11 No.1 as played by the great Australian pianist,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let me tell you about the week I’ve been having. Tuesday I’m down at one of my favorite hangouts and one of my friends comes up to me and tells me he had trouble getting into my page. I open[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With any luck this will work. Since the last report Google and my webmaster were still finding bits of the virus lingering to the point it was decided to get drastic an wipe by rebooting the system. So far it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome back everyone! It looks like we’ve finally managed to flush out the remains of that pesky out of the system. I was comfortably sure everything was okay my stats that had been pretty much dead all week started going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is a completely new one for me. I hadn’t even heard of Eduard Lalo before today. But now having heard his Norwegian Rhapsody I very much like what I hear. I hope you all do too. http://youtu.be/Xxi_B4UlMYE
I’ve always liked folk music. Growing up my father used to play his guitar and banjo to us and he had an extensive collection of folk records including Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary as well as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is Bela Bartok’s first Rhapsody for the violin with soloist Kyung-Wha Chung. I’m really enjoying becoming more familiar with Bartok’s work. He was a folklorist as well as a composer and incorporated much of the traditional Hungarian and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
