For just over a year now, I’ve taken great joy in listening to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts throughout the season on SiriusXM. It has become my sport, complete with commentary which seems to say “This is very, very important. Opera is very, very cool.”
This past summer, as I was vacationing in New Hampshire with my parents, we had occasion to play a number of board games and card games. My dad puts me…
Modern-day Commentary Fortunately, those calming sands of time have downgraded the painful memories associated with breaking a pinky toe to mere inconvenience, rather than what it clearly was, the most…
So, back when Strauss’ big 150th anniversary was happening back in June of this year, I got myself several recordings of many of his symphonic works, with an eye to…
… or, “What’s been clogging our TiVo this summer.” The whole notion of a “summer TV season” is relatively new. When this post stands the tests of time and is…
Modern-day Commentary To look at this paper disgusts me. Back in the day, we were encouraged to write sentences with ridiculous syntax.
My wife and I celebrate mooniversaries. Back in the summer of 2001, we were eager to get our new life started, and scheduled a few meetings to make the plans.…
Once again, I’m digging deeply, not just to a piece with which I had no previous strong familiarity, but to one I had not heard of before I started listening…
Up this week, a piece featured on my listening list back in either Music History II or Music Theory IV (most likely the latter). I wouldn’t have been able to…
This is one of those pieces that shows up on the radio frequently, but I have kept toward the back of my listening ears. As such, I’m sure there will…