Let The Music Live

The death of Prince seems to have affected me hard.  I took a detour into building picnic tables.  The joy of building something in wood is that you have something tangible at the end of your project.  If it is straight and square and strong, everyone can see it.  No one can take that away... Continue Reading →

Russian Film Festival, Part One

I have three DVDs sitting on my desk waiting for me to have time for a Russian film festival.  I’m not sure if this will happen over one long afternoon, or over three separate nights. I stumbled upon these films because the music for each, was composed by some of my favorite Russian composers. Being... Continue Reading →

Romeo and Juliet

I just finished watching the 1968 film version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli.  The play is by far the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and I believe it is the earliest effort in the genre of tragedy that we have from the Bard.  The story is ubiquitous, and I hardly can... Continue Reading →

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