The ever-interesting violinist, blogger, and musical entrepreneur Lara St. John on Wagner and Madison Avenue’s idea of what constitutes “classical” music. Okay, I admit I ranted to her about it,…
Category: <span>technology</span>
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…
“People really haven’t been riveting for quite a while,” said Mary Grieco, metals control engineer for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. “It’s a learning curve for everybody. There are no…
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…
It Ain’t Over ‘Til Its Over, Pt. 2: “State of the Art 1940s Technology” – The Future of Light Bulbs?
It Ain’t Over ‘Til Its Over, Pt. 2: “State of the Art 1940s Technology” – The Future of Light Bulbs?
Count me among the LED- compact flourescent haters for home lighting, so it was fascinating to read a story in today’s Boston Globe (cribbed from the New York Times) about…
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
Astonishing post in the San Francisco Classical Voice about a 1924 letter that blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller wrote to the New York Symphony (the rival of the New York…
Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental…. Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling…
I am perhaps the only person in the blogoverse to look at this and think immediately of the shape-note singing tradition that was developed in America in the 19th century.…
As a Verizon customer looking longingly through the shop window at an iPhone, (love the phone, hate the cell service) this Mediapost missive made me sit up and take notice:…