By Richard Knox   The concert begins in the personal voice of a Romantic poem set as a German Lied, or art-song. Such choral Lieder make...

By Richard Knox A blogger I follow is an amateur astronomer and celestial photographer. His main mission is politics, but at the end of...

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”                                           --- Henry David Thoreau   By Richard Knox   OK,...

- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....

By Richard Knox Charles Darwin was prescient about many things, but music was a black box to him. He couldn’t figure out why humans...

By Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...