After threatening poor editors for some years with 5000 word exegeses when they barely had room for a listicle, I finally got a yes. And am very pleased to have started with something as straightforward the difference between value and…
Because sometimes Christmas is about silly mashups with friends and awkward high fives. Let It Snow/Nutcracker | Time for Three These guys (and their bass pal) have a Christmas EP. So there’s plenty more where this came from. Listen to…
A few back of the envelope calculations for a piece I’m working on led to the to following: Lady Blunt Strad $16 million or $44,000/cubic inch Bonjour Strad cello $6 million or $1100/cubic inch 5-storey Upper East Side townhouse $23…
A friend of a friend ended up buying a violin from Reinhard Goebel, founder of the now defunct Musica Antiqua Köln. When the new owner opened the case, he found that someone had indulged in a delightfully ribald spot of…