Learned with sadness of Pete Seeger's passing. I miss the gentle passion of the folk singers like Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez and o...

Here's a link to a nice little Christmas story.

One of nineteenth century Russia's most interesting and idiosyncratic writers, Nikolai Leskov, is newly available in an English language...

Marvelous concert this evening at Oriental's Old Theater. World class pianist Valentina Lisitsa played Rachmaninov, Bach, Beethoven, Cho...

Americans asked to name great Swiss-Americans might (if they hail from North Carolina) remember Cristophe de Graffenreid, founder of New Ber...

The Old Theater resounded this evening with music provided by the Borromeo String Quartet. The founder of the quartet and native of Durham...

Listening to congressional Republicans downplay the danger to the nation of failing to increase the debt limit reminded me of a popular tune...

Sometimes memory plays tricks. In my memory, I never cared much for cowboy movie star Roy Rogers. He sang too much and paid entirely too muc...

Last Saturday, we attended a baccalaureate ceremony for our graduating grandson. There was lovely music, sung by the college choir. Early in...

What an afternoon of music! We are certainly fortunate in Oriental to have a venue like the Old Theater and a Music Society able to recruit ...

One of the most controversial issues of the past two years was the noise ordinance. I fought for a change to our existing ordinance, to es...