As a lifetime listener (truly) and longtime producer in the radio vineyard, I’ve heard lots and lots and LOTS of stories. But every now and then one comes along that…
Category: <span>Arts & Culture</span>
Ever Wonder What Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Subscribers Watch? Take A Look Sure, Gwen Ifill gets the headline….but check out the other “Over The Top” performances by other PBS…
Chuck Berry, along with opera director Peter Sellars announced today as winners of the Polar Music Prize. Why? In its citation for Mr. Berry the award committee wrote that “every…
It Ain’t Over ‘Til Its Over, Pt. 1: The Cassette Comeback…. R.I.P. iPod: Sony unveils cassette tape that can hold 64,750,000 songs
Extraordinary. Dr. George Horner, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, performing music he played at at the Terezin concentration camp seven decades earlier. Only this time, he’s at Symphony Hall in Boston,…
Rummaging around in the proverbial shoebox of old photos from an old Euro vacation, i ran across a Throwback Thursday-worthy shot of me tickling the ivories on Antonín Dvořák’s own…
Intriguing post in Choralnet the other day pointing out some famous faces who’s sung in their high school and/or college choirs. If you’ve got an entry to the list (and…
Seeing Belafonte @ Berklee yesterday couldn’t help but make me think back to the time when he came to our NPR studios in 2001 to record a couple of programs…
Still buzzing from the terrific performance at last night’s “Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey,” featuring soprano Melinda Whittington and pianist Ethan Uslan, playing classical, “jazz,” and other standards from the…
“Phelps, during a visit some 2-3 years before he reacquired his homestead, saw the mountain (Monadnock) through new eyes, and was to be excited and inspired by what he saw.…