Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
Today we went to an exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington. The exhibit was called Jim Henson’s Fantastic World. It’s about the guy who created the Muppets. Unfortunately this was the last...
Tagged: music
Time Flies Like an Arrow
The current issue of Scientific American has an interesting article by Craig Callender. It’s called Is Time an Illusion? (it’s behind a paywall here). The article is about the fact that most of the...
Mixed Grill
Mixed grill is an old family expression for leftovers night. Tonight’s post is a very random collection of stuff from the Internet that we found interesting recently. First up, some good poetry from the...
World to Come
Last night we went to see cellist Maya Beiser. She was one of the founding members of Bang on a Can. She now does solo work, including a number of pieces where she performs...
Habib Koité
We’ve been listening to a lot of music from Africa recently; especially from Mali. One of our favorites is Habib Koité. We got a chance to hear him live last night at the Somerville...
Heiliger Dankgesang
Last night we went to Jordan Hall (one of my favorite places) to see the Artemis quartet. They played 3 Beethoven quartets. They started with one of the early ones (Opus 18 no. 2)...
Mark Morris
We went to see the Mark Morris Dance Group last night. They were performing a set of dances based on Mozart piano pieces. Morris always seems to listen to the music more than most...
Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen died yesterday. He was the drummer on so many of those great Oscar Peterson records. Together with Ray Brown, they defined what the Jazz trio should sound like. Tonight at dinner, I...
The Caterwaulers Have A Reverb Nation Page
I have been designated the band’s web manager, and I set up an artist page for The Caterwaulers on Reverb Nation. We now have an embedable music player with all of our music thus...
