Open thread 9/21/2024
Impressive cover:
Continue reading →Impressive cover:
Continue reading →(1) In Montana, a court ruling that may help sink Tester’s re-election chances. (2) NPR tries to claim that Rich Lowry used the n-word in an interview. Of course he did not, and they know it. Doesn’t mean they won’t … Continue reading →
Mark Knopfler looks so happy here. He wrote this song. The Everly Brothers are way past their prime, but boy do they still sound good. And Chet Atkins looks like George W. Bush to me:
Continue reading →IMHO the greatest interpreter of Chopin ever. In this clip, Horowitz’s wife – Toscanini’s daughter Wanda – seems rather annoyed:
Continue reading →I’ve written about Clive Wearing before. He’s still alive now, at 86, although this documentary seems to have been made about twenty years ago:
Continue reading →Baryshnikov is her father and her mother is also a well-known ballet dancer, and yet …
Continue reading →Now everything is peachy keen and hunky dory. Did you have trouble getting here earlier today, or not? Blogs are funny things. You’re at the mercy of your server. Luckily, most of the time things go smoothly. But then there … Continue reading →