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April 6, 2026  


Here are ten (quite) random musical thoughts and queries this week:  

Were Mel Tormé and Bob Wells commenting on ageism regarding the “kids” in their 1946 holiday classic recorded by Nat King Cole?  


Is it…

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July 28, 2025

The world lost arguably its greatest composer 275 years ago today when Johann Sebastian Bach died less than four months after undergoing eye surgeries by John Taylor in 1750. The surgeries, done without anesthesia and…

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March 31, 2025

Today, 340 years ago, in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany (21 March 1685 O.S.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born. I will celebrate by playing the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro…