Category: Music

December 28, 2014 /

Ginger Rogers fly fishing on her ranch in Oregon

 

December 28, 2014 /

Come and meet those dancing feet – Fred Astaire

 

December 28, 2014 /

Fred Astaire and son – 1941

Photography by Bob Landry

December 24, 2014 /

Christmas reprise — Darlings! It’s that time… Nat King Cole croons carols and a pasta machine finds its way from the back of a cupboard to the kitchen counter…

December 23, 2014 /

“California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t got the do re mi.” Woody Guthrie

December 20, 2014 /

Ave Maria, tune by Franz Schubert, as sung by Luciano Pavarotti in the Latin version, with a muscular Mother and Child by Michelangelo

December 2, 2014 /

1940 – Santa Enters the Space Age on Hollywood Blvd.

November 4, 2014 /

A Brit in Beverly Hills… an excerpt from “It’s in His Kiss” by Vickie Lester

November 2, 2014 /

Sting – By the Book – NYTimes.com

In what ways do the books you read figure into the music you write? Songwriting is of course a very different art to that of the novelist — condensing sometimes large ideas into rhyming couplets seems to be the opposite process. But it is interesting to me how often a…

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November 2, 2014 /

Pete Townshend – By the Book – NYTimes.com

You once worked as an acquisitions editor at the British publisher, Faber & Faber. Do you miss anything about that job? Are you kidding? That was the best job I ever had. I had lunch with the old chairman, Matthew Evans, this week, and we both went dewy-eyed about the…

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