Words and Music

From the Food Vault Dept : Here’s one of my earliest restaurant reviews, from the days when Metroland had no budget for meals, so we asked f...

From the Classical Vault Dept. : These hot, moist summer days put me in mind of just a such a day thirty-five years ago, when my wife and I ...

From the Vault Dept .: Here’s a piece I stumbled across while seeking something else on the internet, reminding me that somem of the goodies...

WHAT DO WE KNOW about H. W. Hanemann? That he lived from August 8, 1895, to September 2, 1968. That he wrote the screenplay for “Flying down...

WHILE SOME MUSIC VENUES are opening to audiences, opera – especially as presented by an institution like The Glimmerglass Festival – needs t...

I HOPE THAT COMPOSER JOSEPH FENNIMORE has still more recordings that have been made of his works over the years. Every so often, but not oft...

From the Music Vault Dept. : We just enjoyed a performance in my town by Dan Levinson and His Palomar Trio with superb vocalist Molly Ryan –...

HERE’S ANOTHER of my video collaborations with Musicians of Ma’alwyck, in which we imagine a visit by composer-chessmaster François-André Ph...

From the Classical Vault Dept. : More summer venues have announced their 2021 seasons, and Tanglewood will be back with the kind of programm...

Guest Blogger Dept .: George Ade’s famous Fables tended to get longer as their popularity grew and his column spread through newspaper syndi...

From the Vault Dept. : The Glimmerglass Festival is on the brink of opening again, after the inevitable Covid-inspired summer off. Plenty of...

From the Food Vault Dept .: It’s been a decade since the review below ran in Metroland, and I’m pleased to note that the restaurant is still...

WITHOUT MUCH FANFARE (that came across my desk, at least), Sony Classics released a lavish 120-CD box set of conductor Eugene Ormandy’s Phil...

ANOTHER ONE OF my collaborations with Musicians of Ma'alwyck, here envisioning an audition that could have taken place at Albany's f...

NOTHING YOU READ HERE will prepare you for the experience of watching “Gunda,” the new film from Russian director Victor Kossakovsky. It’s a...

Guest Blogger Dept. : We had the opening chapter of Barry Pain’s masterful Eliza a few weeks ago; let’s see how she and her fussy husband ...

MOSAIC RECORDS, that scrappy little jazz-reissue house that specializes in offering handsome, thorough, excellently remastered sets, has bee...

 From the Terpsichorean Vault Dept .: No ballet at the Saratoga Performance Arts Center this summer, and I fear we’re getting accustomed to ...

From the Classical Vault Dept. : It was a rare treat to see and hear the Golub-Kaplan-Carr trio perform in 1984. They were a top-notch group...

From the Tech Vault Dept. : Here’s another tech oldie, my how-to about compiling a videotape from your existing footage by using a 1994 soft...