by admin | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog
n Last weekend the classical music world lost one of its long time great performers. Adolf “Bud” Herseth passed away at his Oak Park home outsideof Chicago. He was 91. Herseth was the former principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony—for 53 years. His name may be far...
by admin | Apr 4, 2013 | Blog
n For a country about half the size of Texas, Italy is a land of extremes. In the south, Sicily is closer to Tunisia than Rome with Mediterranean and African influences visible across the cultural spectrum. In the far north, Alto Adige is almost as equally removed...
by admin | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog
n Neuroscientists tell us that we have taste receptors on our tongues predicated to seven things: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami, kokumi (calcium) and fat. Sweetness is near and dear to us as children supposedly because of the sweetness we inherently crave in our...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
n At some point near the end of a recent dinner in Singapore, my friend and fellow Master Brian Julyan and I suddenly thought we smelled natural gas in the restaurant where we were dining; or mercaptan, to be precise, which is added to natural gas to make it...
by admin | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
n Several months ago I wrote a post on Mozart and how you can help save the classical music universe by purchasing/downloading some of Wolfgang’s music. Practically all the comments I had from readers were very positive, but many asked, “what’s next?” “Where do I go...
by admin | Feb 9, 2013 | Blog
n April 2006; I’d been in Portugal for the better part of a week with good friend and fellow Master Keith Goldston. We were guests of AMORIM, Portugal’s largest cork producer, and had toured cork factories, seen cork forests, and sat through seminars on all things...
