Oxfam announces a music download site that if you don't have Windows and Internet Explorer and Windows media player - you can't use. I have none of these.
If you can't use it either - complain! (http://www.bignoisemusic.com/ is the guilty party)
The duckomenta from J-Walk
Hecate brought in a live bat last night. Beth deprived her of it and we released it.
Bat Conservation Trust
So far it's a pigeon and a bat...
Bernstein's Kaddish SymphonyThe British novelist Colin Wilson claimed that Bernstein's decision to dedicate the work to the memory of John F. Kennedy was another manifestation of Kennedy's bad luck - 'nothing quite as bad as this overtook him while he was alive',
Jamie Bernsteinon the symphony and her somewhat(!) self indulgent rewriting of the narrative.
The Bernstein Site
The Kaddish Prayer
Christian Peacemakers - in the Middle East
Charles Ives died 50 years ago this week. How Ives Jibes an article celebrating his achievement. A merging together of the commonplace and the totally extraordinary. And so many composers owe much to his insights.
I think we're now live?