Mixed Meters

Today, precisely at 5:16 P.M., is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.  Summer solstices are the kind with a long day and a sho...

Saturday afternoon Leslie and I headed north from Pasadena to an event called Art on Millionaire's Row - an arts and crafts show at the ...

Back when I had enough free time to take an active part in other peoples' blogs, I posted occasionally on Daniel Wolf's Renewable Mu...

Can you name any Soviet humorists?  I didn't think so.  (Sorry, Yakov Smirnoff doesn't count.) In Dmitri Shostakovich's memoi...

I stumbled across an events list for the San Francisco Opera's Ring Festival and I was reminded that just one year ago Los Angeles was ...

I knew about the controversy when I started Testimony, The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich - as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov .  Th...

Last weekend Leslie and I traveled to the East Bay so Leslie could participate in BAYMAC . That stands for Bay Area Marine Aquarium Confere...

Bernie Madoff's Golden Parachute is a piece of my music.  You don't have to read about it.  Just click here to listen to Bernie Mad...

Click here to listen Tuesday's More Modern Than Monday © April 24, 2011 David Ocker - 45 Seconds Modern Tuesday Tags: 30+Second+Sp...

Here is a short video with my music featuring my friend Tom Brodhead. © 2011 David Ocker - 141 seconds Last month Leslie and I had a c...

Some of the video shots which I make with the "point-n-shoot in my pocket" just demand to have music added to them.  This is one o...