Swn y Chwedlonol (The Legendary Sound)
This story starts with a couple of chairs.
The first: a folding steel chair, slid across a recording studio floor in 1966
by the Welsh musician John Cale. He aimed it at a
Music & Performing Arts
The Shot Heard Round the World: Meditations on “Son of a Gun”
“If there is no combat in love, then it has ceased.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard
A few weeks ago I arrived fashionably late to the folk-rock musical Son of a Gun
at The Beckett at
Buckley’s “Hallelujah”
Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” resides in that pantheon of great songs that
have been sung, interpreted, chopped, parodied (intentionally and
unintentionally), and beaten to death, ranking so high on the scoreboard of
Christmas Tunes of Another Sort
Christmastime is here again, which means the return of Christmas music. If
you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with this genre created to be
listened to for about five
Christmas Unicorn
Being a Christian in the midst of Christmas is hard. I have tried making
presents by hand; I have tried not going to malls. I have tried abstaining from
peppermint lattes; I have