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Buster Keaton checks his watch against a sundial
June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

Eight seconds with Buster Keaton

Charley Pride, Vince Gill, John Pardi against a desert backdrop
February 25, 2021June 17, 2021

Great country voices

February 12, 2021March 15, 2021

Schubert and the sea of choices

Henry David Thoreau portrait against a Google map of Concord, MA
February 4, 2021May 24, 2021

My neighbor Thoreau

Carol Krauss B/W portrait against orange phonograph horn
January 20, 2021March 9, 2021

Lyrical landscapes

An orange football in a grid of black-and-white Shakespeare portraits
December 9, 2020March 9, 2021

Where are the great books about high school football?

Kabuki actor paints face
November 24, 2020December 9, 2020

A lifeline from Japan

November 24, 2020March 15, 2021

ALL HANDS / News & reflections: Jobim’s Waters

Metal knight helmet and mask with horns
November 24, 2020December 9, 2020

MY GREAT TEACHER/ Beowulf with belly laughs

A man and woman sit on a large slab of rock
November 19, 2020November 24, 2020

WONDER OF THE DAY / Against Geologies

Hazel Scott at the piano with bass in background
November 18, 2020March 15, 2021

SUBLIME-A-TRON / Hazel Scott at 100

Bronze medallion of ocean waves with people peering through a slit

WONDER OF THE DAY / Hidden Watchers

Street in Florence, Italy, with BAR sign in foreground and Palazzo Vecchio tower in background. Photo by Steve Netsky.
November 4, 2020November 13, 2020

Europe in black and white

Stephanie Jones in profile, with pinkish hair and guitar

SUBLIME-A-TRON / Stephanie Jones’s plucky Bach

Carion Woodwind Quintet members pose dramatically in a white loft

SUBLIME-A-TRON / Carion’s romp on Ligeti

Rhiannon Giddens sings and plays banjo, Jeff Cunningham plays accordion

SUBLIME-A-TRON / Wayfaring Rhiannon Giddens

Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays cello against dark backdrop

SUBLIME-A-TRON / Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s mellow cello

Black and white upshot of seven tall birch trees
October 22, 2020March 17, 2021

I think that I shall never see

ALL HANDS / News & reflections, Oct. 20, 2020

J.S. Bach in gray tones with yellow hightlights
October 10, 2020March 15, 2021

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