Words and Music

From the Food Vault Dept. : There’s some back-and-forth to the Lanzi family’s restaurant history. A Lanzi’s Restaurant opened in Amsterdam, ...

MY FATHER, who was born in 1928, extolled the 1950s as the last decade during which “the United States made sense.” As a conservative white ...

SOME YEARS AGO, The Onion , a satirical periodical, sported a headline proclaiming “Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play in Time, P...

WHY DO WE ENJOY “Madame Butterfly”? It has great tunes that invite amazing performances. It tells a story that, despite its exotic trappings...

THE OVERTURE BEGINS, in time-honored fashion, with a trill – the sound of two next-door notes alternating rapidly, giving a sense of uncerta...

THE PROGRAM LOOKED more audience-challenging than I’d expect in a place like North Creek, NY, with string quartets by Joseph Haydn, Bela Bar...

From the Tech Vault Dept .: Some of my old stories pop up and inspire no recollection at all of writing it. I interviewed people, I put toge...