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Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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[caption id="attachment_486" align="alignright" width="300"] To this day, should I hear âRag Dollâ sung by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, I am swept back to summertime in Beach Haven on the South Jersey shore, circa 1965, sights and smells and all. Oh, the incredible power of music.[/caption]It has always seemed to me that there are…
[caption id="attachment_478" align="alignright" width="223"] My daughter Lillian (the one on the left) with our resident Maine Coon, Teddy (the fur ball on the right)[/caption]My six year-old daughter Lillian is going to start piano lessons next week. Lily has been asking for lessons for a couple of years, but I am not a believer in starting…
McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters, 1913-1983) We mark the birth on April 4, 1913 â 109 years ago today â of the American blues singer, songwriter, and guitar and harmonica player McKinley Morganfield. He was born in either Rolling Fork or Jugâs Corner, Mississippi. Known professionally as âMuddy Watersâ (as opposed to, say âCrystal Springsâ, or…
Advertising postcard picturing Wagner (with his father-in-law Franz Liszt directly behind him) greeting Kaiser Wilhelm I at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876 Yesterdayâs Music History Monday marked the 144th anniversary of the premiere of Richard Wagnerâs music drama GötterdĂ€mmerung (âThe Twilight of the Gods), the fourth and final installment of his epic tetralogy The…
On June 24, 1374 â 645 years ago today â the men, women, and children of the Rhineland city of Aachen began to dash out of their houses and into the streets, where â inexplicably, compulsively and uncontrollably - they began to twist and twirl, jump and shake, writhe and twitch until they dropped from…
The concert at the Altamont Speedway, December 6, 1969; the nearly ground-level stage is directly beneath the top balloon, in between the two speaker towers We mark the disastrous concert held on December 6, 1969 â 52 years ago today â at the Altamont Speedway here in Alameda Country in the San Francisco Bay Area. …
John Towner Williams (born 1932) We celebrate the birth on February 8, 1932 â 89 years ago today â of the American composer, conductor, pianist and trombonist John Towner Williams, in the neighborhood of Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. Williams must be regarded as among the greatest film composers of all…
There are fighting words, and then there are FIGHTING WORDS. Maria Callas (1923-1977) as Floria Tosca As for the former, small-case version of âfighting wordsâ I would lump political discourse (which can, admittedly, get pretty hot these days; I trust none of you are put off by the fact that I keep politics out of…
Nicolas Slonimsky (1893-1995) My Music History Monday post of November 25 last discussed, among other things, the role of the critic. Over the course of that post I asserted that âpainful to the critical community though it may be, the fact remains that the surest way for a critic to be remembered is to get…
[caption id="attachment_612" align="alignright" width="300"] THE star spangled banner, the one that flew over Fort McHenry that fabled night in 1814, today housed in the Smithsonian[/caption]I began blogging about a year-and-a-half ago. I was working with a publicist at the time that in turn worked with a vast number of sites. She would suggest topics to…
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