TRUMP: WHITEHOUSE/MADHOUSE
TRUMP TURNED THE WHITEHOUSE INTO A MADHOUSE RICHARD COHEN Dec. 31, 2018 at 1:55 p.m. PST I drove past the White House the other day. It had been a while,…
BACK STAGE WITH FRANCO CORELLI
Franco Corelli Greg Stanford In May, 1967, the fledgling Ear was a 19-year-old student born and bred in a small Midwestern town in Illinois. Despite rarely having been farther from…
THE MOTHER OF ALL DREAMS
JON FERGUSON There is the mother of all wars; this night I had the mother of all dreams. It is 10h15. I awoke at 5h33. I still feel like I…
OTELLO: INTRODUCTION TO A PRAYER
M.C. GARDNER & SUSANA MONTAL In Harold Bloom's SHAKESPEARE, THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN, we find: "… the worship of Shakespeare ought to be even more a secular religion than…
A LETTER OF APOLOGY…
JON FERGUSON Dear Gustav and Egon, You have both been dead now for a hundred and one years. I have lived during the last seventy of those years. It is…
THE WHITE CROW: A REVIEW
M.C. GARDNER Early in the fall of 2003, I traveled across a continent and an ocean to arrive at the Mercury Theatre, near the east coast of England , in…
THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE EDUCATED
Jon Ferguson Once upon a time, like in 1967, there was a boy who decided he wanted to be as educated as possible. He went to the most educated people…
VICKERS AT THE APEX
Greg Stanford Few opera lovers would dispute that the leading tenor roles in Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Verdi’s Otello are the most fiendishly difficult roles to…
WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?
Jon Ferguson Have you ever asked yourself the question, “What is supposed to happen in life?” If you haven’t, I suggest you do. It might change the way you think…
1970’S KENNEDY CENTER BALLET
GREG STANDFORD I had the good fortune to come of age as a ballet lover from the vantage point of the Kennedy Center Opera House during the 1970's. Kennedy Center…
TARZAN, JANE & NATURE
Tarzan thinks about the nature of the jungle by Jon Ferguson Tarzan wakes up in the jungle every morning between four and five o’clock. He loves the silence at such…
DARWIN’S LEGACY
Jon Ferguson Darwin’s legacy. - Darwin and friends had some interesting original ideas that have helped take the world away from the infantile belief that God created the world in…
STANFORD ON PRESLEY
When the teenage Elvis Presley first walked into Sun Studios, he said two things which go a long way toward explaining both who he was musically and why he became…