Tom Menino was the obscure President of the Boston "nobody cares" city council in November, 1993
Friday, October 31, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Song of Autumn by Charles Baudelaire
Autumn Song, by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) from the poet's "The Flowers of Evil".
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
The critics have spoken. Fantasia is ...
The critics have spoken and the results are in. Fantasia is …
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Van dancin' 'neath the cover of October skies
Of all the popular performers of our age, (that leaves you out, Vivaldi), none have been able to evoke the timeless pulse and feel of the seasons as well as Van Morrison, who, throughout his career, has composed a myriad of tone poems to the leaves, fields and meadows that ripple and flow under the dingle dangle of the dappled and starry skies.
And who better to present a cascading cavalcade of these performances than yours truly, who has been proselytizing on behalf of this guy for nearly (well, I ain't saying for how long other than that we were all a whole lot older then) and who likely has more versions of this, perhaps his greatest tune, than Van's mama do.
If it is true, as the poet, Eliot wrote, "there is only the unattended moment, the moment in and out of time ...lost in a shaft of sunlight, the wild thyme unseen ... the winter lightning ...the waterfall, ... (and) music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all", then Van Morrison has seen and felt and heard and remembered and reminded us of many of those unattended moments - to which we gratefully say, "Turn up your radio and let me hear the song .... TURN IT UP!"
Moondance Number 10. In this, the final installment of the Moondance cavalcade, we find our hero in August, 2014, a week shy of his 69th birthday, returning to perform at his own Orangefield High School in Belfast, proving that even for a life long Irish Rover, you can always go home again.
We now end where we end. 10/30/14
And who better to present a cascading cavalcade of these performances than yours truly, who has been proselytizing on behalf of this guy for nearly (well, I ain't saying for how long other than that we were all a whole lot older then) and who likely has more versions of this, perhaps his greatest tune, than Van's mama do.
If it is true, as the poet, Eliot wrote, "there is only the unattended moment, the moment in and out of time ...lost in a shaft of sunlight, the wild thyme unseen ... the winter lightning ...the waterfall, ... (and) music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all", then Van Morrison has seen and felt and heard and remembered and reminded us of many of those unattended moments - to which we gratefully say, "Turn up your radio and let me hear the song .... TURN IT UP!"
Moondance Number 10. In this, the final installment of the Moondance cavalcade, we find our hero in August, 2014, a week shy of his 69th birthday, returning to perform at his own Orangefield High School in Belfast, proving that even for a life long Irish Rover, you can always go home again.
We now end where we end. 10/30/14
All performance clips are below the break. (Rotten apples department. The video clips can only be viewed through Flash player, which is not available on Apple or Android devices).
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