From the monthly archives:
It seems every 100 years interest in fairies surfaces. Some of you may remember Geoffery Hodson’s book “Fairies at Work and Play” where some turn-of-the-century photographer fooled many into thinking there were fairies in their gardens. Now, it appears someone named B.S. Joseph has found a dead fairy. Visit his/her (not sure what gender BS [...]
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“I want to enthrall the world by my creative work, by its wondrous beauty. I want to be the brightest imaginable light, the largest sun. I want to illumine the universe by my light. I want to engulf everything and absorb everything in my individuality. I want to give delight to the world. I want [...]
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I was driving back from the store and looked up Fairfax Ave to see what looked like LA’s 9/11. I turned on the radio to find out it was a heavy brush fire traveling up the side of a mountain not too far from Universal Studios. When I got home I took the dogs up [...]
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Lisa Summer, author of “Music The New Age Elixir”
I’m reading a fairly interesting book called MUSIC: The New Age Elixir by Lisa Summer. It calls to task the several shelves of books that have been written about music and the spiritual world over the past 100 years or so, from the point of view of [...]
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In the curiouser and curiouser department, I listened with amazement that circumcision shows great promise in reducing the number of AIDS cases among heterosexual males in Africa. The foreskin of an uncircumcised male is evidently far more susceptible to HIV than the toughened glans meatus of a circumcised male. Although this is a very serious [...]
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Rufus Wainwright sings that he wishes that the New York Times would publish “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL” on its front page (THAT will never happen). I wish that newspapers would help literacy by correcting commonly mispronounced and misspelled words. So I’m starting my own campaign, and today we’ll start with
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My colleague Tom, and thousands of [...]
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This press release just in for a concert sponsored by the American Composers Forum of LA. I’m not sure who does her copy, but I’ll have whatever she’s having.
Soprano Kerry Walsh’s voice conveys joy, pathos, and pain in a way that creates unutterable longing. Hearing Ms. Walsh sing this range of material in a small [...]
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Mark Swed wrote a brilliant review for Christopher Rouse’s new REQUIEM which I didn’t get to hear because of my own concert at the same time. I don’t normally think CHORUS when I think of Christopher Rouse, but Swed’s review was so exciting, I can’t wait to hear it.
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Say what?? These guys were the Beatles of Australia. No, I just made that up. The “thorts”?? Dude, what kind of a name is that?
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I was amazed to hear one pop song from the late 60s after another pop up as on-screen music in Warren Beatty’s early film “Shampoo.” The Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, and the only credit we see in the entire film is at the beginning: “Music by Paul Simon.” His stuff, what [...]
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