Words and Music

Observations and opinions essayed in pursuit of a sensibly cultured life.

Friday, October 17, 2025

The Music Comes Round and Round

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YOU WILL COME AWAY from this book with no doubt about Alex M. Stein’s love for his favored music. In fact, no matter how fervent a music-lov...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Speaking in Tongues

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AS A LIFELONG CAT PERSON, I am most comfortable when my beast of the moment is snoozing on the nearby chair or prowling the house and yard f...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Dinner at the Family Manse

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From the Food Vault Dept .: It’s the 25th anniversary of the review posted below, a review of a restaurant in Amsterdam, NY, that had been i...
Friday, September 26, 2025

A Gamut of the Emotions

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EUGENE YSAŸE was one of last of the virtuoso violinist-composers who dominated the late 19th century, but unlike Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps, ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Have Another Look

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Art Isn’t Easy Dept. : Just when you thought that the late John Updike had once and for all dropped his pen, along comes yet another weighty...
Friday, September 12, 2025

That Was the Tech That Was

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From the Tech Archives Dept. : I found this pair of pieces in my archives and had a terrific laugh at the enthusiasm with which I celebrated...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

The Stokowski Nobody Knew

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HAVING TOILED IN THE TRENCHES of journalism for over forty years (albeit the more rarefied trenches of classical music, theater, and other c...
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