Category: Musings

  • Inauguration Fanfares

    Inauguration Fanfares

    Many of us feel a need to begin celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamela Harris sooner rather than later.  As we are all too well aware, inaugural events will be virtual due to the pandemic as well as to security concerns following the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.  That doesn’t…

  • Why Am I Doing This?

    My favorite photography collection is Contemporary Musicians in Photographs by Louis Ouzer.  This 1979 Dover publication contains 119 photos of some of the world’s most famous musicians, from Rubinstein to Ellington, taken at the Eastman School of Music between 1940 and 1979.  Ouzer, whose studio was a few doors down the street from Eastman, was a…