Monthly Archives: May 2025

We’ll be away from June 5 to June 12, so that means that the store will be closed next week as well as the following Thursday, June 12. So do stop by today if you’re in the neighborhood. You might just catch this one, which I usually play at some point each Saturday. If youContinue reading “Off to Barcelona”

In honor of Ascension day, which we will celebrate by being open for your browsing and shopping pleasure, we will be playing the Ascension oratorio by – who else? – Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music we play exclusively on Thursdays. If you can’t make it, or even if you can, have a look and aContinue reading “Heavenbound”

As a Harvard graduate, who studied there when Henry Kissinger, one of the university’s professors, was actively helping the country’s president wage war in southeast Asia as national security adviser and later, after I graduated and moved to Sweden, as secretary of state, it is heartening to see Harvard in the forefront of the struggleContinue reading “Fight fiercely, Harvard”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6ZHWIYHlXOs&ved=2ahUKEwjWnvWZvaeNAxU1QlUIHYTOAf8Qx-ULKAB6BAhYEAE&usg=AOvVaw1UkLbXtr6yu9JrX5qvFxAB It’s a pity he won’t be coming to Sweden, but you can see quite a bit of the concert on you tube. And to think he also grew up in New Jersey… https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUaVabp8qO6g&ved=2ahUKEwiOh9jAjKqNAxVPJRAIHTRODOYQwqsBegQIIRAG&usg=AOvVaw2M_cn5WMkFAhGA5uSss9bC

We always play Bach on Thursdays at Andy’s Corner and women singers on Fridays so here’s a piece that we just might play both today and tomorrow. I found it surfing on the internet after getting a cd with Marian Anderson, which brought back memories of seeing and hearing her at the Lincoln Memorial onContinue reading “Bach on Thursdays”