Among culinary innovations of the last century, there are few as widespread, or as variable, as the Caesar salad. Rather like the sandwich ...

The average church organist is at the distinct disadvantage of not being an organist at all. Rather, most are pianists, cajoled or coërced ...

It is altogether too easy for students to acquire the prejudices of their teachers. This is particularly true in terms of taste, which is m...

My eyes for beauty pine, My soul for Goddës grace: No other care nor hope is mine, To heaven I turn my face. One splendour thence is sh...

Like many renters, I have extravagant dreams of future home-ownership. There will be a library with lots of cherry-wood bookcases, and a su...

Quamobrem otium sanctum quaerit caritas veritatis; negotium justum suscipit necessitas caritatis. Augustine, De civitate Dei , XIX , §19 Ha...

Plane travel, as anyone can tell you, is onerous. (It is really quite convenient, of course, and somewhat miraculous, that we can cross the...

Today we made the trek out from Leipzig to Naumburg, to play the Hildebrandt Organ there. The weather being unseasonably warm for this par...

One benefit of winter's continued presence here, in the desolate heart of this North American continent, is that, now that we've had...

Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun; Not separated with the racking clouds, But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky. See, see...