March 2024
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I've never ventured very far into the Bach cantatas, having heard mostly the "greatest hits," such as BWV 140, "Wachet Auf" (which my mental ear insists on hearing as "Watch Out!"). There are just so many of them, and–I hope you will excuse me if this sounds blasphemous or at least disrespectful–there seems to be…
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Before I started writing this, I should have gone back to the 52 Authors series and read Stu's entry on Dickens, which is quite good (click here). And I see in the comments this one from me: Bleak House is one I really want to re-read (in addition to reading for the first time the 60%…
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It occurred to me after I typed that title that A Night to Remember was a book about the sinking of the Titanic. Book and film, I find on checking. But I didn't change the title, because it is perfectly accurate. You can be assured that this night with the Mobile Symphony was not a disaster.…
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I read The Prelude in a Norton Critical Edition collection, Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose. Like all the excellent NCEs, this volume includes a selection of criticism from Wordsworth's own time to ours, or nearly–that depends on what you're willing to encompass in "our time." I was following my usual practice of avoiding talk about the…
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No pun on the word "sweet" intended, though the piece is classifiable as a suite, though not called such. I'm a little embarrassed to say that I've subscribed to yet another online streaming service, this one for classical music only. I already had Pandora Plus, the paid version of Pandora, which, unlike the free Pandora…
Light On Dark Water 