Monthly Archives: May 2013

Heritage

Recently I have encountered a threat to a substantial collection of vinyl LPs — not my records, but an excellent library collection — that got my back up, my fangs out, and my blood roiling. I’m not even sure if … Continue reading

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Speed Freaks

I’m not the slightest bit antagonistic to the early music movement. I believe my credentials speak for themselves—harpsichord student of Laurette Goldberg back in the 1970s, then program annotator and scholar in residence for the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for two … Continue reading

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Have a Nice Time

We believe that music is such an important part of our lives that we should listen to it, even if we don’t like it. — Anna Russell So decrees the wonderfully bumbling music club president in Anna Russell’s bang-on parody … Continue reading

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Another Day, Another Warning

Our society is awash in consumer watchdogs, all of them blowing their horns at full volume as they portend doom and gloom caused by our intemperate consumption of this and that. Chocolate. Sugar. Salt. Booze. Cholesterol. Triglycerides. Red meat. Dairy. … Continue reading

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Plunk Tinkle Thump

Think like a violin, he would say, drawing his right arm over an air violin held in his left hand. No, Scott, no! she would coo, you must think of it like a singer, a beautiful singer with the line … Continue reading

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