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Mozart: Piano Quartet in Eb (K.493) The piano has never been my favorite instrument; I would verbalize its basic sound as “clank.” But I’ve been drawn to it recently, partly because there is so much great literature for it, and am finding myself becoming more enthusiastic about it. I’ve also, since watching Bergman’s Magic Flute…
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For one brief shining moment, Myra Minkoff was running John Edwards's blog. (See John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces for more on Minkoff.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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But what's wrong with believing in Richard Dawkins if it makes you happy? Thanks to Francesca for pointing this out. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Horace Silver: Song For My Father I knew this was considered a classic album but hadn’t heard it until recently, courtesy of a jazz trumpet student who believes, correctly, that there are some significant gaps in my education. Sure enough, it is a classic, if the word of a non-expert can be trusted. It immediately…
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There's an interesting discussion about evolution going on in the comments. This is a subject that I think about a lot and have written about several times. To wit: Great IDea What ID can and can't hope to accomplish. And why the evolutionary timeline strikes me as more of a problem for Christians than the…
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Here are brief comments on some interesting, not necessarily good, films that we've rented from Netflix over the past few months. My wife picked the majority of them. She has a pretty good record at this point. Children of Heaven: Iranian, by, I think, the same director who did The Color of Paradise, which is…
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Headline for a video news segment on MSN: Miss USA Out Of Rehab. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Creating that which should not be. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Loudon Wainwright III: History Here’s something different: an album for middle-aged middle-class men. Now there’s a population that’s, as they say, “underserved” by the popular music industry. Most middle-aged pop artists seem to see themselves as perpetual adolescents, or at any rate to write from that point of view. Even Dylan (who is really past…
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This looks awfully interesting: a re-issue of recordings made by the Trees Community, an early '70s Jesus Freak group, drawing a rave review at AMG. The samples sound intriguing, a bit reminiscent of the Incredible String Band (a good thing, in my view, though the IBS is definitely not for everybody). I will be mildly…
Light On Dark Water 