Words and Music

From the Tech Vault Dept. : Here’s another dinosaur of a piece that I found on an ancient hard drive, but can find no tearsheets in my files...

From the Food Vault Dept. : I’m not sure where the reference to 1939 you’ll see below came from; according to fairly reliable sources, the s...

From the CD Vault Dept.: Back in what we didn’t realize were the waning days of compact discs, the major labels actually did us some favors...

Guest Blogger Dept. : I mean, how much of this stuff of mine can you take? Hence this relief, thanks to a return appearance by George Ade. B...

IF I DIDN’T KNOW BETTER, I’d think that José Andrés is obsessed with vegetables. But I do know better: He’s obsessed with everything to do w...

From the Jazz Vault Dept .: I offered a piece here a few days ago about Nick Brignola , which reminded me that the Albany area has a still-e...

From the Opera Vault Dept. : As we anticipate another summer of musical delights at the Glimmerglass Festival, we look back to productions w...

From the Food Vault Dept .: The saga of the restaurant reviewed below is a doughty one. A 19th-century farmhouse was turned into a convent i...

From the Jazz Vault Dept .: How nice to note that 35 years ago, almost to the day, I was enjoying my first live-concert exposure to guitaris...

From the Classical Vault Dept. : First, let me note that Max Lifchitz remains, as I write this, a distinguished member of the faculty at SUN...

Guest Blogger Dept .: Robert Benchley points out that he hasn’t been featured on these e-pages since late last year. Fear not, my friend: th...

From the Classical Vault Dept .: Here are liner notes I wrote for a proposed CD release of Bohuslav Martinů’s Violin Sonatas, which would ha...

From the Jazz Vault Dept .: I regret that I was unable to attend the concert described below, but I did see Nick Brignola perform on other o...

From the Smut Vault Dept .: Alongside those straight-up, technically detailed pieces I wrote for a variety of computer magazines in the earl...

From the Tech Vault Dept. : I can’t find tearsheets for this piece, which I wrote for Computer Life magazine in 1995 or so. This means you’r...

From the Classical Vault : These anniversaries can be tedious, but I, at least, find it interesting to see what I was doing on this date in ...

From the Food Vault Dept. : It’s long gone, I’m afraid. Owner Victoria Gelaj sold Pasquale's and moved south, the better to deal with so...

 From the Classical Vault Dept .: One memorable weekend twelve years ago, the Albany Symphony gave a pair of concerts at a spiffy new hall i...

From the Classical Vault Dept. : The bane and glory of a performing artist is the incessant touring the job demands. But this has allowed me...

Guest Blogger Dept. : Let’s welcome back Barry Pain with the third chapter of his wonderfully droll book Eliza . Chapter one is here , two i...