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2012-04-13 14.59.17

B-W Bach Festival

Last week I got to attend the annual Bach Festival at my alma mater, the first time since I was actually in it as a senior in 1979.

31 Years Ago

July 27, 1979: I moved to New York City from my humble birthplace of Cleveland, Ohio. I go back to northern Ohio regularly, and still know my way around. In some ways I feel like I left a few weeks ago; in other ways, like I never lived there at …

Tower City

Searching for a place to walk last night (out of the rain) we ended up at Tower City, in and under the landmark Terminal Tower. I took some cell-cam photos of the wonderful murals high up in the lobby.
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Souvenir

The composer Donald Erb died the other day, at age 81. A prof at the Cleveland Institute, he was big on the scene in the ’70s when I was first paying attention to “serious” music. “Serious” is in quotation marks, because Erb was sort of an exemplar of how unserious …

All-Star Game Memories

This year’s All-Star Game is being played at Yankee Stadium here in New York, in tribute and farewell to a great park, and the park that hosted the very first such game in 1939. Just two players from the rosters at that game are still living. This morning’s Times has …

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