The people in this photo celebrate birthdays today. Well, I'm not sure if George Gershwin is actually celebrating, but I hope he is. Ha...

Tomorrow The Wife and I set out for our annual trip to the Finger Lakes region, for adventure and food and books and crafts and all sorts of...

It's always been interesting to me that so few great and enduring works of classical music have been inspired by the Arthurian legends (...

So, they're talking about a remake of The Princess Bride . This is, of course, a bullshit idea that needs to be lured into a quiet and d...

The operas of Giacchino Rossini aren't performed very much today, but they were once all the rage, and the overtures to those operas hav...

Today is the birthday of film composer Hans Zimmer! Zimmer tends to be a rather controversial figure in movie music fandom circles (mainly f...

Eighteen years. I wonder what we have learned, if anything; how we've grown, if at all; if we've changed in the ways we needed to ch...

Time for some film music! One thing that a lot of movie music fans discover is how often it turns out that they love a particular filmscore ...

After a hectic (and sick!) couple of weeks at Casa Jaquandor, things are starting to finally settle out a bit! Work at The Store has been go...

A wonderfully ethereal rendition of one of my favorite classic romance songs, "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square".

Oh look, somebody left a blog here. Yes, folks, it's been the usual set of reasons for low posting here: focus on getting edits done ...

This is a real sign, by the way! It belongs to Ipswich Lumber and Hardware in Ipswich, South Dakota.

I've never been a big Fleetwood Mac fan. I have nothing against them, and I tend to like their songs, but for one reason or another I...

As a composer, Leonard Bernstein is almost certainly best known for having written the score to the classic musical West Side Story (a rema...

A couple weekends ago, The Wife and I attended the Sterling Renaissance Festival. Here's a bit of photographic rundown of this year'...

Yup, still quite busy. Lots of reading and writing. Here's Harry Belafonte:

Gustav Holst is known almost exclusively these days for The Planets and his two Suites for Military Band, but he wrote a great deal of fine...

Lester, one of our two cats, died last week. He started to seem a bit not-quite-himself last weekend, and we kept an eye on him. Then o...

Sam Seaborn : There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry ‘cause we went to the moon. None of them a...

Yup, that was another unplanned hiatus, folks. This time it was technological in nature: my computer failed spectacularly eight days ago, to...