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“He wants every last click of a bassoon’s keys, each scrape of horsehair on catgut to be heard,” There’s some lovely writing in this review of the Gardiner concert, but I’m trying to understand why the key clicks of a bassoon are desired. I prefer not to hear the key clicking. I think most of [...]

Reading this from A Monk’s Musical Musings (Are you really a monk? I’m guessing not! But I’m so gullible I’ll believe you if you tell me you are. And, by the way, your “Favorite Books” scare me!): Anyway, it’s now on its way back to me. What I find most irritating however, is that my [...]

Today at UCSC is a “field trip” day. Remember those? I loved them when I was in elementary school because we often went to places that gave us free stuff. I didn’t care what the “stuff” was. It was free. That was all that mattered. In junior high and high school I liked them because [...]

I’m really enjoying reading Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. He is now 21 in my reading, and is, as anyone who has read about him knows, quite a character. He’s not exactly nice, and has quite the potty mouth too. But I wonder if maybe everyone wrote that way, since one thing he writes is actually [...]