2020 has been a year of profound uncertainty, and uncertainty is something we humans just don’t like. The year has been full of challenges, obstacles, mental stress, economic misery and spiritual anguish. Do you have days when you feel like your head is going to explode? I do. 2020 is…
Author: Brad Shorr
As long as we ask politicians to save us, they will exploit us. As long as we focus on differences rather than common interests, there will be resentment and envy. As long as we confront each other instead of understand each other, there will be suspicion and anger. As long…
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) was a Baroque composer of great stature and influence. Sadly, a great deal of his music has been lost over time, including about 80 operas. Judging from his surviving work, those operas, for which he was renowned in his day, must have been magnificent. Here are a…
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554-1612) was an early Baroque composer, highly respected and influential in his time. His music is beautiful. Here are a few wonderful examples.