WBJC’s web maestra, Diana Ross, has suggested that we blog about a Top 5 list of some kind, so here I go with my top 5 favorite instruments: Cello, because it sounds so luscious and sonorous. It has its limitations, to be sure—the cellists can’t stand for the National Anthem at the opening of the […]
This CD cover, with Gil Shaham on the left, exactly conjures up the eagerness and fervent communication that are so much a part of his gorgeous music making, and which I now know are just as vivid in person. Every interview is special in its own way but I have to say that, of […]
Never mind Shakespeare’s play within a play in Hamlet, on Saturday night WBJC had a party within a party at the BSO’s Opening Gala. In a corner of the lavish tent adjacent to the Meyerhof, making a discreet rumpus, could be found Mark Malinowski wearing one of his signature bow ties and an unostentatious lapel […]
Noêl Coward has Elyot say in “Private Lives”, “It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” Well, I think most music is potent, cheap or not, and I was reminded of this all over again when I went to The Charles this weekend to see “Searching For Sugarman.” My creative nonfiction professor alerted me to it […]
You may have noticed that we quite frequently air performances by the French conductor, Marc Minkowski, on WBJC. He founded the group, Musicians of the Louvre, in the 1980s and has recorded quite a substantial amount of French music with them—mostly Baroque, but also composers like Offenbach, Bizet and Berlioz. Well, I’ve discovered that he […]
In 1641, before the Dutch East India Company had set up a refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa—at the point that the cold currents of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm current of the Indian Ocean converge—a captain called van der Decken ran into a deadly storm at the Cape of Good Hope […]
There are reasons not to feel proud about being a South African, the most egregious being the legacy of apartheid, of course. But there are also reasons to be very proud, like the iconic Nelson Mandela and the peaceful transition to democracy in the 1990s. Now, add another reason: the 25 year old Olympian, Oscar […]
What an extraordinary thing to read a “new” piece by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the August 6th edition of The New Yorker! I must confess I was a late bloomer with Fitzgerald. I had studied “The Great Gatsby” as an undergrad student and, for reasons that I really can’t defend now, I was not captivated. […]
As the cicada choruses begin to vie with each other, it’s an indication that we have reached the dog days of summer. One of the things I love about living in America is how clearly demarcated the seasons are: the vibrant fall, the Christmas card snow scenes of winter, the rejuvenation of spring, and then […]
On Friday night, I was deep into some writing at my computer in the study upstairs. At about 11.15 PM I was pulled from my concentration by the most unearthly sound. It was a roaring unlike anything I had ever heard. A few seconds later the house shook to its foundations with the impact of […]
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