Composer's Notebook

We've been getting the Mezzo arts channel on our cable as a free offering for a limited time and have been recording some of the classic...

We went last night to hear the second concert of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra’s season at FirstOntario Place, conducted by ...

Last summer I bought six indeterminate grape tomato plants at Costco. They did splendidly. We had, literally, more tiny tomatoes t...

We took a short road-trip vacation to Eastern Ontario last week and I’d like to share some of what we saw and our impressions of the ci...

I retired from teaching more than eight years ago and people sometimes ask if I miss it. I tell them, “No, not even a little.” I do mis...

I got my notice that I’d been called for Jury Duty at the end of February. I’d been called twice before and on both occasions, sin...

The Dreamer is a setting of three stanzas of a C.A. Swinburne poem and the third in the set entitled Three Swinburne Songs . They...