Symphonies & Sports
How is a conductor like a quarterback? CBS News Cultural Correspondent Wynton Marsalis shows how Alan Gilbert’s conducting of the New York …
Civil War & Black History
My last year in high school, 1961-62, marked the beginning of the Centennial of the Civil War. The popular books and articles …
Night Sky and Beyond
On October 17, I took Violet to see “Big Bird’s Adventure: One World, One Sky” at the Boston Museum of Science Planetarium. …
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Music Director of the Mariinsky Orchestra, was in fine form at the Kennedy Center on October 14, 2013, conducting the …
The Tin Drum
When my grandson Thomas visited last week, he headed straight for the tin drum I had bought to illustrate a discussion of …
Harvard Reunion
In September 1966, Steve and I loaded our ’65 Chevy Impala and pulled a U-Haul trailer from Dallas to Cambridge MA, where he …
New York Again!
On the morning of September 20, I took the bus back to New York City, only three weeks after our Labor Day …
Beethoven Sonatas
Beethoven and his 32 Piano Sonatas have fascinated me ever since I started listening to his symphonies as a teenager and learned Sonata in …
New York, New York
From August 31 through September 2, 2013 nine family members, ages 2-1/2 to 70, gathered in lower Manhattan. The original idea was for …
Roped In
If I had resisted talking with a stranger, the woman on the subway wouldn’t have told me about the Museum of Math, …