I just finished this one yesterday. I first read the Tao Te Ching forty or fifty years ago and at least once more since then. But this relat...

We live in a very confused and profoundly hypocritical time in which nobody seems to be clear about anything. So sometimes it is a very good...

Yuja Wang at Salzburg Sadly I wasn't able to attend the Salzburg Festival this year, but we have a pretty good overview from Jay Nordlin...

I haven't done one of these since July when it seems I was reading a host of books. Lately, just a few, but lengthy ones. First up the b...

There is a tendency to underrate the intellectual work of our predecessors, particularly in the 19th century--at least in some areas. Karl M...

 I am no longer a professional musician, nor am I working on creating music as a composer. But I am still someone deeply involved with music...