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…
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…
‘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…
‘What a pretentious title’, I thought as I started the BBC 4 documentary, ‘Johnny Cash: The Last Great American’ (2004). By the end of this thoughtful, fast-paced hour,…
Today with great reverence I wish to thank Dr. Jonas Salk and those who preceded and followed him in the struggle to control polio. For as The Writer’s…
‘Folk Music & Farce; Show Tunes & Satire; Madness & Escape’: That’s ‘The Midnight Special’ which has run on WFMT in Chicago for 60 years this month. …
I can’t pass by Paine Hall, Harvard’s Music Department building, without thinking of a concert there I didn’t attend. *** It was May 1983. Stan Rogers, the rising…