Continue Reading Musical Cities: Amsterdam Quick, name a Dutch painter. Right, the one that came immediately to mind was…. let me guess: Rembrandt? van Gogh? Bosch? Hals?…
Continue Reading Musical Cities:Venice Let’s mention Antonio Vivaldi – and then move on. Of all the musicians associated with Venice (where he was born and taught…
Continue Reading Musical Cities: Hamburg As I mentioned yesterday, this week will ride on borrowed material. Here is the source article about musical cities, and of course…
Continue Reading Music as a Commodity This week I will cheat and have other sources provide some food for thought – or stimulus for joy – rather than…
Continue Reading All Things Being Equal… I had let my membership at the Portland Art Museum lapse. Too much of the programming was, at best, not particularly interesting,…
Continue Reading If in doubt, take a walk So ok, I was muttering. Venting, really. Blabbering. One of those days when everything that could irritate did irritate. R e a…
Continue Reading Compassion & Choices “Some consider death as a landing; others see it as a point of lift-off.” …
Continue Reading The Inside Show “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” …
Continue Reading The Soft Power of Mothers Just so you know how coincidence sometimes works: I was following, with scarcely contained envy, the Viennese travels of someone I know….
Continue Reading Encounter in a Lily Garden Last summer I chanced on a Lily Fest in the woods near Forst Grove. I reported here in July on the floral…
