Last week, the wonderful MasterVoices presented the Gershwins'  Strike Up the Band.  In 1927, its book, about a war over cheese tariffs,...

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) wrote 30 plays, a few of which were produced on Broadway, along with screenplays and poetry. Nowadays he is known--wh...

What is honor? That's a particularly relevant question as we head into the election. Is honor reputation? Or is it something between a p...

The American Classical Orchestra (ACO), described by its founder/conductor as "our labor of love," utilizes period instruments to ...

Annette is winning at life. She has just negotiated a major promotion; her boyfriend Charles is attractive, considerate, and wealthy; their ...

One is not supposed to focus  so much  on trees that you miss the forest, right? I get that. But what if they're really big, ugly, focus...