by Peter Cates A poem very suited for Mother’s Day from Elijah Parish Lovejoy (written when he was already living in the Mid-West during the 1830s and would be killed on November 7, 1837, by an angry mob for his anti-slavery editorials, two days short of his 35th birthday) taken from the 1854 Native Poets […]
by Peter Cates A few weeks ago, I covered E.B. White. Today I have an opening paragraph from his April 1939 entry in One Man’s Meat: Saturday. A full moon tonight, which made the dogs uneasy. First a neighbor’s dog, a quarter of a mile away, felt the moon – he began shortly after dark, […]
by Peter Cates The Carol Sudhalter Quartet Live at St. Peter’s Church; Carol Sudhalter, baritone sax and flute; Patrick Poladian, piano; Kevin Hailey, double bass; and Mike Campenni, drums. Alfa Projects AFPCD194, CD, a recorded live concert, from March 7, 2018, at New York City’s St. Peter’s Church. Carol Sudhalter, now in her 70s, has […]
by Peter Cates Heckle and Jeckle 4 cartoons, posted on YouTube. From 1946-1952. Among the funniest animated characters, right up there with Foghorn, Wiley and Bugs, were two blisteringly arrogant magpieish partners in crime, Heckle and Jeckle. These semi-birds/buzzards of too many feathers were among the creations of animator Paul Terry (1887-1971); he launched Terrytoons, […]
by Peter Cates Ginastera String Quartets 1 and 2 Henschel Quartet; Arte Nova-ANO 721250, cd, recorded December 9, 10 and 14, 1999. Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera (April 11, 1916 – June 25, 1983) was born in Buenos Aries, Argentina, to a Catalan father and Italian mother. In addition to composing a huge legacy of […]
by Peter Cates Above Suspicion written by Joe Sharkey; published 1993, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 310 pages. Above Suspicion is the account of an eastern Kentucky woman, Susie Smith, murdered back in 1989 by the area FBI agent, Mark Putnam, also a married man with whom she was having an affair. The murder case has sustained […]
by Peter Cates The Native Poets of Maine S. Herbert Lancey, editor. Published in Bangor, Maine, by David Bugbee and Company in 1854. 324 pages. The above anthology from so long ago is a sizable representation of poets born in our Pine Tree State and some of their works; the most well-known is Portland’s Henry […]
by Peter Cates A live link from London’s Barbican Centre A live link from London’s Barbican Centre that I watched this past Sunday, March 10, 2019, and available on YouTube until June 10, 2019; this includes two intermission features from host Rachel Leach. Live: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 (with pianist Till Fellner) and Bruckner […]
by Peter Cates Lush Life John Coltrane, tenor sax Heritage, 513289L, CD, 1987 reissue of sessions from 1957-58. One of the greatest saxophone players in the history of jazz, John Coltrane (1926-1967) left a huge recorded legacy, each listing imbued with consistently high quality. Lush Life gathers five previously available selections from the late ‘50s […]
by Peter Cates Strauss Waltzes conducting the Vienna Symphony; Madacy, MKC 1825, cassette. Conductor Josef Krips (1902-1974) was distinguished by his work in helping to rebuild the Vienna State Opera during the post-World War II years; he also made many recordings of the Central European repertoire-Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert etc. – that were released in this […]