Nine great Don Giovannis sing the famous Champagne aria. Only one will emerge victorious. . . A fun treat, enjoying as we do comparisons...

One of the many throw-away jewels in T. S. Eliot's 1961 essay To Criticize the Critic is a distinguishing between fashion and taste. Th...

Directed by Al Pacino. 1996. Al Pacino walking around Manhattan asking people what they think about Shakespeare was not such a bad idea. ...

Directed by Tom Hooper. 2008. There is a great deal to admire in HBO's John Adams . Foremost perhaps is how well the screenplay fits t...

Here is a brief round up of the sacred music texts I use, two of which were just released this past week and which have already and thoroug...

There exists a discrete genre of journalism native to the internet. This writing, of the short and pointless variety, is too vapid to find a...

Reflecting this past Father's Day on the thought of the Roman poet Statius on his son and fatherhood I shortly thereafter came upon yet...

A preliminary version of a timeline I created as part of a larger Mozart project. Hopefully this chart and similar will give a clearer sens...

   From their father may your children learn peaceful ways and from their grandfather may they learn generosity, and from them both eagerne...

Mini-Review of " The Waste Land " App for iPad Title Page (click to enlarge) No, not quite, but a new iPad app is dedicated w...