Not #NotMyPresident

The events that have taken place over the past two months have driven a wedge through the mantle of the country’s facade, exposing a wound large enough for the bubbling magma from the core of our country’s psyche to overflow and scorch everything with which it comes in contact. Emotional responses have been swift, and […]

You Can’t Shame the Shameless or How to Tell “Pap Pap” He’s An Embarrassment to Himself

At first it was amusing. But when unchecked, the amusing has a tendency to get away from itself. And so the dominoes of unhinged rhetoric began to fall. Amusement begat interest. Interest begat concern. Concern begat worry. Worry begat legitimized fear, which turned to pure, vitriolic, anger. And now, as thought and reason wades through […]

Ferde Grofé – Grand Canyon Suite Philadelphia Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy Columbia (1958)

During the Roaring ’20’s one man was the undisputed king of popular music—bandleader Paul Whiteman. And the “man behind the man”—his chief musical arranger and jazz pianist—was a fellow from a long line of family musicians, who had a sharp musical mind for sound and color, named Ferde Grofé (pronounced “fayr-DEE grow-FAY”). He was the […]