Can We Ever Escape Seventh Grade?
When my son was about four I read the New York Times bestseller “Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys,” (Ballantine Books, 1999)...
Whodunnit? Here’s Musical Noir
What is our fascination with the old black-and-white detective mystery stories made in the 1940s and early 50s? Whether it’s Dick Powell in his...
The Artists That Could
‘A coma knocks everything out. It’s amazing how blank the brain goes,” says John Sears, an artist and teacher who survived a near fatal...
A Marathon of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
The 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth and the centenary of Shostakovich’s birth shape much of this season’s concert scene. However, pianist John O’Conor devotes...