Two Voices That Get It (aka Staying Out of the Cookie Jar)

     Two relatively unknown heroes are emerging onto the American political stage.  One is pugnacious, willful, and admits to a “weight problem”, the other is short,  balding, thin, and prefers motorcycles to cars.  Neither projects the stature of our current President, lacking the photogenic lines, baritone voice, and soaring rhetoric associated with our cinema influenced […]... Read More

The Rant That Started It All

     On Tuesday, August 10th, multiple party primaries took place across the United States as part of a steady stream of electoral nominations to occur over the next weeks promoting candidates to battle for election to the US Congress in November, 2010.  Colorado’s Republican primary for Senate ended with Ken Buck, the so called “tea party” candidate, easily winning […]... Read More

Horowitz in Moscow

     Vladimir Horowitz was a one of a kind performer piano virtuoso who in his stage life received adulation rarely seen from the typically staid classical music audience.  It was borne of his rare pyrotechnic technique filled with booming rushes of volume and transcendent and delicately displayed motifs that never ceased to enthrall and conquer […]... Read More

A Painful Juxtaposition

     Two stories occurring thousands of miles apart this past week point out some painful realities in the ongoing clash of western and islamic culture.   The first is the harrowing story of the murder of ten healthcare workers by the Taliban in a remote part of Afghanistan last week, the second the controversy of building […]... Read More

A Fierce Competitor

     We are experiencing in this major league baseball season of 2010 a return to dominance of the pitcher after 20 years of offense driven baseball.  Magnificent pitching performances have been the norm, with several no -hitters including a perfect game as well as a perfect game taken away on an umpire error returning the […]... Read More
VOTER TRIUMPHANT IN IRAQ

Just Maybe, Finally, Something Wonderful

   The United States is approaching thirty years of direct and tumultuous involvement in the dangerous and tortuous politics of the Arab World.  President Reagan’s catastrophic 1982 decision to directly engage US Marines in force separation and peace keeping activities in attempting to bring a ceasefire in Lebanon’s murderous Christian Muslim civil war resulted in […]... Read More

Time for Term Limits?

     The news of the week is the considered U.S. House of Representatives trial on ethics charges of Charles Rangel (D) of the 15th District of New York.  It seems Mr. Rangel is accused of the famous old crime of using U.S mailing privileges for private concerns, running multiple rent control apartments in abeyance of […]... Read More

Segovia and the Guitar Renaissance

     Stringed instruments have played a profound role in the musical expressions of western civilization’s development. The vibration of the taunt string to create a musical note is delivered by sliding over the string with a bow, plucking the string, or hammering it. The stringed instrument as the focus of the composer’s musical vision took […]... Read More