"Great art has dreadful manners." So begins Simon Schama's Art (Vintage). "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you... Merciless and wily, the greate...

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Children, sculpture group, Muzeul de Arte, Timisoara (10.19) #MuzeuldeArte, Timisoara (10.19) Pop Up | Magdalena Abakanowicz in Timiso...

After a self-guided walking tour of a pair of the city's squares or Piața (like Piazza in Italian), I'm glad I stopped in the Art Museum for the Abakanowicz ...

So excited and grateful after the debut residency of @CollectiveEuphonia, a new flexible ensemble of performing and creative artists for #site-specific resid...

The "Cento" or "found" poem below is inspired by Cy Twombly's paintings, and the poetry scribbled, scrawled, scratched, painted over and erased in them. Most...

The Pity of War: A Recital commemorating the 75th Anniversary of D-Day Below are some of the images to be projected, interspersed with a few of my epigrammat...

(The "Fantastic Opera Scenes" cast of WLU students, L-R: Sarah Gabrielle Lynch, Hayley Allen, Haochen Tu, Keren Katz, Levi Lebsack, Troy Larsen) With gratitu...

Below is a new poem as a gift for the awesome team who brought Rossini's Barber of Seville to colorful life this past weekend at Opera Roanoke (read the revi...

What would you title this piece from Bob Trotman's installation, "Business as Usual," at the Taubman Museum. Post your replies on my FB page, or contact me ...

So, what do you hear when you see this painting (Seascape, by William Dodge. Taubman Museum.) If you're on FB, comment on the post with your reply. The first...

Rosemary Laing: greenwork (aerial view) in the exhibit "Outside Eyes" at the Taubman Museum of Art. I was thrilled when my friends at the TMA asked me to con...

Just a few subjects to be touched upon anytime the TMA and I collaborate on L2P: poetry to travels, Cityscapes, Nightscapes and Landscapes in paint and song...

Thanks to everyone who came out on a wintry day in central Virginia for my first Winterreise. It means so much to me that family and friends came from across...

This is a postscript to my previous post. Reading the (2-sentence!) paragraph below reminded me anew how Mann's protagonist Hans Castorp is a direct descenda...

Below are my program notes (in the form of 24 anecdotes) and select images which will be projected during an upcoming performance of Schubert's epic song-cyc...

I'm still processing the powerful and disturbing day spent at Dachau KL earlier this month. Here are some images from our 9-day trip to Munich at the start o...

This Tuesday Temple Emanuel hosted our 4th presentation of Jewish Music in the 20th century. We spent the evening in the company of Stephen Sondheim. We star...

We talked about Terezin and Jewish musicians in the Nazi era at Temple Emanuel just three weeks ago. (see my previous post). Last night we gathered there to ...

Per request, here are some images and notes from my presentation at Temple Emanuel on Jewish Music in the Nazi era. Jewish Music in the 20th Century | Temple...

This month I'm leading a series of three Adult Education programs at Temple Emanuel on Jewish Music in the 20th c. Tuesday night we started with an overview ...