Mike Pence beareth false witness
Mike Pence just said that he and his wife Karen have “the three most beautiful granddaughters ever born in the history of the world.” Grandparents everywhere know that’s not true.
In the great green room
One of the great moments of grandparenthood (so far): reading Goodnight Moon to a granddaughter who pulled it from the shelf at bedtime and said she didn’t understand it.
Elaine Fine, “Adoration” arranger
A music magazine calls her the pioneer of arrangements of Florence Price’s “Adoration.”
I am also fond of the composer
Elaine wrote a piece for viola, “I am also fond of lonely islands,” after reading Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book. And now there’s a recording.
Hating on 1-D
We like our water wet, not melty.
Nico & Nor
From WGBH, preschool STEM learning with Nico & Nor games (iPadOS 12.0 or later). Go Ben!
Onomastics
A toddler of my acquaintance calls them “The Get Back Guys.”
Elaine says
Elaine says that New York Roast tastes just like the Chock full o’Nuts coffee she enjoyed in her student days.
FSRC: annual report
Nine novels, two plays, one short-story collection, and one mountain.
“Adoration” again
Here’s “Adoration” again, played by Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano, but this time with audio and video. And Elaine Fine is now credited as the arranger.
A Fine Price
Elaine just learned that her arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration” for violin and piano will appear on violinist Randall Goosby’s first album, Roots (Decca), to be released on June 25. HIs performance, with pianist Zhu Wang, has been released on YouTube as a calling card for the album.
Cobbler’s bench or mulberry bush?
The things we debate in our fambly. Everyone else knows “Pop Goes the Weasel” as beginning with “All around the cobbler’s bench.” I, like the cheese, stand alone: I’ve always know the song as beginning with “All around the mulberry bush.” Both versions are fine, of course. That’s the folk process. But which is more common, the bench or the bush?
Astraios, music and film
A concert from Astraios Chamber Music, available through May 3: Music & Silent Film. A total delight, and probably the most artful COVID-era online production I’ve seen, right through to the closing credits.
Orange Crate Art: Soup’s on
To the left, Nancy and Sluggo sup soup. To the right, Elaine and I do the same.
A Tunes, for beginner violinists
Elaine Fine has a book of violin pieces out from Mel Bay, A Tunes: Capricious Pieces for Beginner Violinists.
A joke in the traditional manner
Did you hear about the new insect hybrid?
A joke in the traditional manner
Why are supervillains good at staying warm in the winter?
Florence Price’s “Adoration”
Augustin Hadelich at the piano, with thirty-seven other musicians, performing Florence Price’s “Adoration,” arranged for violin and piano by Elaine Fine.
Fine’s Price
The violinist Augustin Hadelich has invited violinists everywhere to record themselves playing the violin part from Elaine Fine’s arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration,” a piece for organ that Elaine arranged for violin and piano.
Another “Molambo”
Homemade music.
Our own private “Molambo”
A good one.
Homemade music
It’s the Faces song “Ooh La La.”
Rachel and Elaine shining
Rachel, via Elaine’s tweeting, now rules a portion of the Internets.
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “Marc Brown, Arthur, and the REAL Mr. Ratburn.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “What Does WGBH Stand For?”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “The Pearl Harbor Radio Logs.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “A Vegetarian Thanksgiving.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
“John Heard and The Scarlet Letter.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
The latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “War Photography and Public Domain.”
Ben Leddy hosts The Rewind
Here’s the latest installment of WGBH’s The Rewind, “Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, and the Atomic Bomb.”