Words and Music

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

Friday, July 25, 2025

Not Every Rake Is Rescued

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POOR TOM RAKEWELL! He’s a lazy fellow looking for easy money, trying to hang onto his fiancée Anne Trulove even as her father disparages his...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Back to the Land

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YOU’RE SAVVY ENOUGH to wish to dine responsibly. You visit farmers’ markets in season; perhaps you cultivate a vegetable plant or two. You’v...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

A House of Her Own

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PUBLISHED IN 1984, the novel The House on Mango Street became a best-seller for author Sandra Cisneros, selling over six million copies and ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Art Isn’t Easy

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THE 1985 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING MUSICAL “Sunday in the Park with George” makes its Glimmerglass Festival debut in a handsome, enthusiastic, ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Desire That We Love

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JEALOUSY AND DESIRE: Two emotions that provoke nearly all the pain we suffer and the pain we inflict. Each is a confluence of component emot...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Blues with a Feeling

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MANY OF THE SONGS we choose to sing spring to our lips because they’ve been drilled into our brains by corporate profit-fueled repetition, c...
Friday, July 04, 2025

O, Say: Can You See?

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Happy Independence Day. As we continue to move through the most fraught, dangerous era in American history, let me offer some advice culled ...
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