Today in "The Refuge" Faces of France Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Faces of Romanticism, Part II Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" A Sunday Outing with Couperin and Beethoven. Plus: a Commentary on the Doubtful Role of Music Critics Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Hangin' Out with Johannes "Big John" Brahms Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" The Roots of Nationalism in Russian Classical Music Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Complexities of Art and Artists Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Exploring the art of three very different composers: Hummel, J.S. Bach, and Ravel Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Operatic Reformers! Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" On the underrated Mr. Hindemith Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" A Giant of Latin-American Music Plus: A Commentary on How Our Musical Preferences Can Evolve Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Beginning the week with a multiplicity of items: - On the founder of America's first full-time professional orchestra - An incredibly productive composer - Grillparzer's melancholy observation Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Noting the 196th anniversary of Franz Schubert's death in Vienna at 31 Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Items re: Brahms' G Major String Sextet, Bizet's underrated genius, a huge wind instrument and a cheesy composer. Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" On Three 20th Century Composers: Shostakovich, Webern, and Edgard Varése Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" A Composer's Experiment, JFK Meets Stravinsky, and a Magnificent Beast of an Instrument Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Musicians with Complex Inner Lives Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Beethoven Goes After Mahler, Schumann Flubs an Errand, and a Commentary on Music and the Folly of Constraining Identity. Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" Mahler, Haydn, and a Choice Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!

Today in "The Refuge" A bad marriage, Debussy's non-ideological aesthetic ideology, and the story of a terrier who became a recording icon. Click on newsletter link in my bio Please Share and Subscribe!