New music by Dean Crocker: "Winter’suite" (2025)
[Songs and Dances for Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale]
Sop, Alto, and Tenor soloists; Chamber orch. (fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, perc, strings )
youtu.be/SKOCh49_7f8

“Integral,” new electronic music by Dean Crocker. youtu.be/9oJVVMwpvPc

My new edition of Felix Draeseke's Quintet, op. 48 [pno, hn, vln, vla, vlc], from a German publication of 1889. youtu.be/cpmcrodfFSg

Reminder: Eric Trump in 2014: ‘We have all the funding we need out of Russia’
— The Hill, thehill.com/homenews/new...

Impeach him. Impeach all of them. Repeat as necessary.

In the interest of clarity and fairness, I wish some competent outlet would publish a list of which recent executive orders, social media pronouncements, murmured asides, and muskian trumperies are actually legally in effect.

Every day, in every way, remember: "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

With apologies to TWaPo—
Just telling a riveting story
May tend to diminish your glory
As All of America's backwaters
Grow evermore overwroughter.
It's easy to cry, "Malediction!"
When you're editing dubious fiction;
But it falls in the same category
As telling an unproven, riveting story.

Once upon a time angry, confused people regularly wrote letters to the Editor of their local newspaper which were, wisely, rarely published. Today those people produce podcasts, heard around the world. Maybe things were better then.

Relaxation.

“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...