MMmusing

Today, someone posted a cartoon  (by Jeffrey Curnow ) from yesterday about the concurrent birthdays of composers Anton Bruckner and Darius M...

On the night of a chamber music recital at the camp where I taught this summer, with 20-plus excited performers (ages 8-16 or so) hanging ou...

I have not yet received much feedback about my most recent post , in which I combine a serious Sondheim song with a silly song about Barbie;...

Well, here we are right in the middle of August with the annual existential crisis that marks the near end of summer. (I realize that in som...

Almost exactly five years ago, I wrote about an obsessive love I developed for the slow movement of a late Haydn string quartet - a post w...