Singers/Musicians
5th Dimension, Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine June Carter Cash, Will the Circle Be Unbroken Krishna Das, Om Namah Shivaya Bob Dylan, Series of Dreams Sinead O’Connor, You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart The…
Category: Music
Sending a Poem and Its Translation to a Friend
This is by Nicanor Parra. Sound familiar? Parra. As in Violeta Parra (Nicanor’s sister). As in Gracias a la Vida. As in her own recording of same (YouTube hers, not Mercedes’s) As in try and…
Bob Dylan Approximately: Summer 2019 Course
“That’s all we did in those days. Writing in the back seat of cars and writing songs on street corners or on porch swings, seeking out the explosive areas of life.” —Bob Dylan, 1977 “I…
Share the Wealth with Lorraine Glass-Harris: Exploring the Un-Conducted Life–Life after the St. Louis Symphony
Lorraine Glass-Harris retired her 43-year-long career with the St. Louis Symphony in 2015. From early childhood, following the family’s dream of a generation of professional musicians, she studied the violin and contemplated the role of…
This Week
What I’m Reading This Week Raul Hilberg, The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian Aharon Shabtai, War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems Nathan A. Scott, Mirrors of Man…
The River Boat Captain, He Knows My Fate
My mother was chagrined when I went from listening to the Beatles at age 13 to Bob Dylan at 14. “At least the Beatles can sing; how can your ears stand that?” Neither she nor…
“I Want to Write a Song Like Dylan…”*
November 1987 I attended the world premiere of Louisville band Led Pelvis in Lexington, Kentucky. *from “Country Metal”
The Beatitude of Playing Bach
Arnold Steinhardt, Violin Dreams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 Like the hundreds of other people who had gathered at Saint Pius V Church for Dan Horkheimer’s funeral last August, I was moving between despair and disbelief…
The Good News of Bach, 3.14.2017
Listening to the Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Salvatore Accord (English Chamber Orchestra). Enjoy the first movement here.
From Cheryl Sullivan in Santiago, Chile
la tumba de Víctor Jara que alma más apasionada que letra más bella The tomb of Víctor Jara What a passionate soul What a beautiful letter