People often talk about how the amount of copies Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller has sold. People often bring up that it’s the biggest selling […]
Category: Music
Paul McCartney’s Seven Best Beatle Ballads
Paul McCartney wasn’t (and isn’t) just a balladeer. He’s written all kinds of different types of songs (“Helter Skelter” for an obvious example) and he’s […]
Third Album Is Secret Treasure In The History Of The Electric Light Orchestra
Years before they gorgeously greeted Mr. Blue Sky and bade a kiss off to the Evil Woman, the Electric Light Orchestra hinted at those future […]
Charlaine Harris, A Review of the Sookie Stackhouse Series
I’m not sure why we find vampires so interesting. In literature they go back to the 1720s in the pre-Austro-Hungarian Empire. But their real popularity […]
A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks
Among the world’s favorite operas, we find three of them with a libretto penned by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by none other than the […]
Vienna: A Young Traveller’s Guide
Vienna, Austria, is a beautiful city with a colorful history, it is a cultural center especially for Classical and operatic music and the arts. As […]