Double feature: two outdoor concerts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Handbells at a fair and a string quartet on the lawn: For summer concert venues, you make the best of what you can get. Continue reading Double feature: two outdoor concerts
Tag: LEROY ANDERSON
About that Sleigh Ride …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” wasn’t written in the winter. It wasn’t even a Christmas song. But let the composer tell it in his own words. Continue reading About that Sleigh Ride …
A musical legacy
Reading Time: 2 minutes A bit of serendipity brought us the opportunity to visit the home of composer Leroy Anderson, now open as a museum in Woodbury, Connecticut. Continue reading A musical legacy
‘Revolution’
Reading Time: 5 minutes – FICTION -The words are right there: ‘But if you want money for people with minds that hate/ All I can tell is brother you have to wait.’ A scene from ‘He Said, She Said.’ Continue reading ‘Revolution’