Mixed Meters

My friend John Steinmetz sent me an excerpt from the book Mirrors, Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano.   The excerpt is about a...

In a November 2008 press release Placido Domingo, Los Angeles Opera's leader, optimistically announced   Ring Festival LA will be a de...

Recently, Leslie's old copy of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov surfaced from some boxes of books in the garage. I decide...

Recently I wrote about Composers of the Nazi Era by Michael Kater the third book in a fascinating trilogy about Nazis and music.   I'v...

(This is a sequel to my previous post Suppose Wagner Had Been a Jew ) When Richard Wagner and his Ring of the Nibelungs is discussed the...

Much to their credit, Ring Festival LA has done a great deal to reinforce the image of Richard Wagner as an anti-Semite. This was probably n...

I've recently read a few descriptions of the music of Richard Wagner which struck me as true. Although these were not actually intended...