The lovely long shot at the start of 45 Years (2015) shows Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) walking her Alsatian in early spring fog along a lane bordered by a line…
In early fall 1967, my then girl friend convinced me to join her in ushering a concert by Judy Collins. A roommate a couple of years earlier had sometimes played…
London’s Savoy Theatre will always be associated with the musical comedies of Gilbert & Sullivan which built it. Their topsy-turvy had to be transporting because the Savoy’s seats were designed…
I’ve just posted a gallery of pictures taken of English Country Dancers taken last weekend. Enjoy! *** Years ago, one May Day morning, I walked past Holyoke Center on my…
A ‘defiant requiem’ seems a contradiction. But not when a chorus of 100 Jews interned at Terezin in 1944 sang Giuseppi Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’ to their Nazi captors and…
‘America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy….’[1] So said Warren Harding in his successful campaign for president in 1920. But how different was Harding’s ‘normalcy’…
I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan. No, not his music though cuts come up on my playlists. But his Theme Time Radio Hour which I catch on…
On my first trip to the Bahamas in April 2008 I happened on a ‘rush’ by a small Junkanoo band. I was hooked. My new gallery shows why. We…
Driving US Route 7 down the central Valley of Vermont, past the steeply rising road to Ripton, I think of Robert Frost when I see the tired monuments…
‘Don’t ever worry ’bout nothin’, ’cause there ain’t nothing gonna be alright no how. You can count on that.’ So an expert on nothing going right, Hank Williams,…