Mixed Meters

Leslie and I work mostly on different schedules. There are many days when the only time we are together is spent watching evening televisio...

To mark the death of Wolfgang Wagner ,  grandson of Richard Wagner, here are two pictures and a quote from Twilight of the Wagners , by Gott...

According to my archive this is Mixed Meters' 500th post.  See the previous 500th post here. The point and shoot in my pocket takes p...

According to Blogger this is Mixed Meters' 500th post. Read my first uncharacteristically short post here.   It's dated September 1...

It's hard to miss that tonight is the Oscars. It's the movie industry's own very public popularity contest to crown its newest ...

On the front page of RubeGoldberg.com you can read the definition of the phrase "Rube Goldberg" as defined by Webster's New W...

Stravinsky: On the Cover Skip to Stravinsky: Computerized Skip to Stravinsky: Out to Stud I ran across a Time Magazine cover from July ...

Last August I wrote a little about Dorothy Crawford's very interesting book A Windfall of Musicians, Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in ...

I know you've heard the phrase. Someone with good intentions has probably said it to you. You might have even offered it as motivation ...

This first picture is a well-known sculpture in downtown Los Angeles. It's called Corporate Head by Terry Allen.                 Th...

Sergey Kuryokhin passed away in 1996 at the age of 42.  He was an avant-garde improvising pianist from the Soviet Union.  Apparently he did...