Classically Ignorant

Classically Ignorant

My knowledge of classical music is equivalent to what I know about art: practically nothing. Nonetheless, I offer a few observations after attending a performance by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recently.

Still Special Forty Years Later

Still Special Forty Years Later

Forty years later, here’s how the Pretenders song, “Brass In Pocket,” was suddenly added to so many radio stations’ playlists and helped change a format.

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

I had to smile at this paragraph from an obituary of Allee Willis, who wrote the “Friends” TV theme song and the Earth, Wind, & Fire hit “September.”