Musical Assumptions

I have been feeling exceptionally well for a couple of weeks. The treatments for my multiple myeloma have pushed the level of cancer in my system way down, and though I sometimes feel a little bit tired (particularly when I do not have the "assistance" of steroids), I have been feeling rather normal.

Hot flashes and night sweats have returned with regularity, but the inte...

I would say that in my sixty-seven years of life I have spent at least fifty years of it being filled with restless creative energy. Like most people, I spent the first decade and a half of it doing the work of growing and learning. I grew in social, mental, physical, and musical ways, and was fortunate to grow up in a place (Newton, Massachusetts), where I was stimulated by my ...

Last night Michael and I watched Lumière, Le Cinéma!, a 2024 film that stitches together several dozen fifty-second-long Lumière Brothers films from the late nineteenth century, covers the product with informative narration, and underscores it with music by Gabriel Fauré. Included in...