Early music events coming up

I went on Saturday to hear My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort do music of Ferrabosco & Jones, circa 1607, a intimately focused concert creating a persuasive soundworld with plucked strings (lutes and a bit of cittern), viola da gamba, and voices. Thus the concert season was launched for me. There’s a lot coming up [...]

They also serve, 9/25

Dangerous for young minds? Andy Webster on “Fame” in the NYT:
“Fame” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has skeptical, repressive parents.

The mechanics of emotion

It’s possible she was there from the beginning, or maybe she came over later, either way I had the feeling from the start that she was there because of me, and this apparent oversight or lapse of memory is but further proof that the mechanics of emotion, about which we are so curious in this [...]

They also serve

(who only stand and rate) — A striking image from today’s New York Times, reviewed by Daniel M. Gold:
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” is rated PG (parental guidance suggested), presumably for its spaghetti twister and feral Gummi bears.

New York all-day shapenote singing 2009

As all my friends are far too aware, the New York City All-Day Singing for 2009 is this coming weekend — the All-Day itself is bracketed by a singing school on Friday night and the Manhattan Third Sunday singing on Sunday afternoon. We should have nearly every regular singer in New York, most of [...]

Wachet auf!

It turns out that if you put the coffee water on to boil, and then crawl back into bed, your smoke alarm turns into a convenient second alarm clock.

First look: Milkmaid at the Met

The Big Tomb’s bow to the celebrations of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Bay 400 years ago focuses, as its Hudson-Fulton Celebration a hundred years ago did in part, on the Dutch connection. In 1909 we put on a big show of Dutch art, but since we did that two years ago (hanging [...]

NYCADS 09 Food tally — Updated Weds Sept 16

This post is going to be of rather specialized interest. If you are thinking of bringing food for the New York City All-Day Singing at the Fifteenth Street Meeting House on September 19, take a look and see what has already been offered. You can post a comment or email me (address on [...]

New look, new year

I’m actually a few days late but we can call this the Haruspex’s anniversary, since I launched it on Labor Day last year. Whaddaya think of the new look? A lot like the old look, right? But a little different. (Who in god’s name uses those futzy WordPress themes with hipster gals [...]