Words and Music

VIOLINIST LARA ST. JOHN’S RECORDINGS include works by John Corigliano and Matthew Hindson, a collection of folk tunes and improvisations fro...

From the Computer Vault Dept.: Back in the heady days of late-’90s tech growth, I wrote for a number of computer magazines, among them the n...

From the Theatrical Vault Dept., or, Look Who We Had in Town! Sometimes there are legitimately surprising surprises to be found in my dusty...

I rise at nine, or maybe ten – There’s nothing really pressing; I spend an hour deciding when It’s worth the trouble dressing. I set the c...

From the Dance Vault Dept .: It’s easy to see what I was doing one weekend in April 1986: attending dance concerts. I reviewed two of them i...

From the Food Vault Dept. : Harkening back to the days of luxury travel . . . well, this isn’t quite it. It’s what passed for dining on Amtr...

I JUST WATCHED the most forbidden movie in America. Or so it seems. Dropped by Amazon Studios and picked up by no other U.S.-serving distrib...

Guest Blogger Dept. : We welcome the return of virtuoso versifier Guy Wetmore Carryl, and another of his lively creations from Mother Goose ...

From the Vault Dept .: O, how I took for granted the tours that came through the nearby towns! Even before the performing arts ground to a h...

Remember Live Music? Dept.: I’ve long been in love with Pamela Frank, both as a violinist (she, not I) and on a fundamentally carnal level....

Remember Live Performance? Dept. : One of the most compelling shows presented at Albany’s Capital Rep nearly a decade ago was Leslie Uggams’...

From the Food Vault Dept .: Look, I’m as socially responsible as the next fellow. Trouble is, the next fellow isn’t typically very socially ...

KEEP IN MIND THAT BAYER AG (best-known as the aspirin company) remains in a legal hot-seat over its weed-killer Roundup, a product it inheri...

From the Cinema Vault Dept. : This way-too-brief review hardly suited its subject, a two-and-a-half-hour masterpiece of disturbing storytell...

From the Vault Dept. : Bob Bowyer found the humor in ballet and offered magnificently endearing shows with his troupe, American Ballet Comed...

From the Vault Dept.: Capitol Chamber Artists has been presenting music in the Albany, NY, area for over a half-century. They have been res...

From the Food Vault Dept. : Remember restaurants? How odd it would have been for me were I still actively reviewing them! Here’s a throwback...

TRUTH TO TELL, there’s not much different going on here. Rural life has a built-in social-distancing factor, although that’s the thing that ...

Guest Blogger Dept. : The rising need for medical personnel is bein matched by a rising self-sufficiency among the quarantined masses. Accor...

My cabaret partner, Malcolm Kogut, and I spent yesterday recording the song embedded below. It's from a 1915 operetta by Franz Lehar, ...