Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen songs keep coming to mind – and not just any Leonard Cohen songs, but the ones he wrote in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during an especially dark period in his musical oeuvre. Cohen had a lot … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Arts
There’s no harmony like close harmony: Part I
And the best of all is sibling close harmony. That’s where nature and nurture can combine to make different-yet-somehow-similar voices blend in a special way that creates a full and resonant whole that is far more than the sum of … Continue reading →
Biden the unity president
I wonder how many people see the enormous contradiction and hypocrisy in Biden holding himself out as the president for healing and unity: It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white … Continue reading →
The perfect versus the human
This is about music. But I think it’s about a lot more, too: When the human element goes out of art, the art suffers greatly. We perceive it, even if we’re not necessarily conscious of why things sound different. I … Continue reading →
The future
Back and forth in time: have these guys found the Fountain of Voice Youth?
Seriously, how do these old guys do it? Russell Hitchcock (the high tenor) has the sort of voice that doesn’t usually last till the age of 65, which is how old he is in this video. The other singer – … Continue reading →
Surprise! It’s Bach!
Some musical escape. The whole video is interesting, but I find this part especially so:
Continue reading →Trump: time to transition
“My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. In so doing I was fighting to defend American democracy. I continue to strongly believe that we … Continue reading →
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother…
… in the future, it may be that you’re not to be mentioned on the floor of the House. It’ll be “parent” and “sibling” for us all: Proposed changes to the rules of the House of Representatives would “honor all … Continue reading →
Walking (and singing) those lonely streets
The other day I was thinking how very many songs there are about loneliness. So I did a search, and the following video came up. Even though it’s supposedly about loneliness, the video made me smile. The lead singer’s 80s … Continue reading →
Just call him Bill “Phaethon” Gates
When I read this story I thought of the ancient Greeks, who had a fine sense of hubris/nemesis: Bill Gates, among others, is backing the Harvard Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment. The SCoPEx is researching a form of “geoengineering” to prevent … Continue reading →
Laura Nyro: like no other
[NOTE: Yesterday in the comments to the Everly Brothers post, the name of Laura Nyro was brought up by commenter “Brio.” That reminded me that I had posted – at least, I thought I had posted – a piece on … Continue reading →