Today is the last day of my 162-day project. (That’s nearly six straight months, to you and me.) It would be foolhardy of me to claim I didn’t learn anything, or that I didn’t enjoy myself. Once again, I learned a lot. And I had fun doing it. So these 162 days were time well … [Read more…]
I don’t really have a listening post this evening. Well, I do. But it’s the same as they have been for awhile. So why subject anyone else to my rut? I’m just listening to German conductor Gunter Wand (1912-2002), North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. I’ve encountered Maestro … [Read more…]
My listening post this evening is (again) in front of the TV series Blue Bloods, this time it’s Season 2 Episode 12 “The Job.” One of the biggest surprises to me is how good of an actor Donnie Wahlberg is. So much so that I can’t tell he’s acting. Do you know what I mean? … [Read more…]
My listening post this evening is in front of the TV, the Christmas tree (sans presents), and with an egg nog laced with Captain Morgan Rum beside me. On the TV is the series Blue Bloods, starring the one and only Tom Selleck (who will forever be Magnum, P.I to me), as Police Commissioner Frank … [Read more…]
My listening post this morning, Christmas morning, is in front of the tree (now laden with presents to be unwrapped later today), with our cat sitting, ludicrously, in the middle of the floor, and the 1947 holiday movie The Bishop’s Wife on in the background. The Bishop’s Wife is a classic through and through. It … [Read more…]
My listening post today – which is Christmas Eve – is my office. Playing through my Altec Lansing speakers, which is connected to my iPod Classic – is The James Gang. Straight ahead of me (obviously) is my Lost in Space robot and an editorial comment regarding today’s listening project: German conductor Franz Konwitschny (1901-1962), … [Read more…]
My listening post this evening is in shambles. There’s wrapping paper, tissue paper, presents to wrap, and even a glass of white wine standing ready in case I get overwhelmed by it all. My wife is in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on the gingerbread houses we’ll give as gifts Christmas Day. (They’re spectacular, … [Read more…]
My listening post this morning is my happy place – the second floor of our local library. When I die, I want to be buried in a library. Or a coffin shaped like a book. Books and music are my two biggest passions. So me being here, with Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, … [Read more…]
My listening post this morning is the Restaurant-Chain-That-Must-Not-Be-Named where I am listening to a table of five guys conduct a Bible study, while I sip my Light Roast coffee, and eat a twice-toasted bagel with cream cheese. Even though it’s 7:38am, it’s still pitch black outside. I prefer being here at 6am. But I had … [Read more…]
My listening post this evening is with another kombucha to my right, John Suchet’s book Beethoven: The Man Revealed to my left, and in the background is Season 1, Episode 3 (“Sally and the Lab Technician”) of the fantastic Dick Van Dyke Show – for my money, the best-written, best acted TV series of all … [Read more…]