Well, we’re back, tired (our flight left Miami at 6:00am EDT this morning, and that with the early switch to Daylight Savings Time - your tax dollars at work), and incredibly happy and relieved to see this project come to a close. Our performances at the 2007 National Convention of the American Choral Directors’ [...]

My older brother, David, and I had a nice chat tonight. We talked about our little brother’s impending wedding, and, among other things, houstonist.com, for which David’s daughter (and my niece), Alex is a writer.
Houstonist, as its name implies, is all about all-things-Houston, Texas and is a part of the Gothamist network of city-related [...]

Friday evening 20 June 2003 saw the eve of the release of the novel Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and it saw me at a book release party held in the Barnes & Noble across the street from the Houston Galleria. And what a boring party it was! — nothing more [...]

For me, January is one of the dullest months of the year music-wise. The great and austere world of the fine arts is in that peculiar span of time just after Christmas/New Year’s and before things start revving up again in February and March to the crescendo that, for me at least, will not [...]

How cliché can you get? Being thankful on Thanksgiving and waxing ad nauseum about blessings, yadda, yadda, yadda… Woop-dee-doo. Let’s watch football.
Then again, I don’t have to gather firewood fearing I will be killed (or worse) by armed savages. I don’t have to rummage through the muck of a tsunami looking [...]

Over the years, I have not watched 60 Minutes all that much, but after reading about and watching the remembrances of Ed Bradley via YouTube and elsewhere, I now wish I have had. Bob Schieffer has called Ed Bradley the “coolest” reporter of them all. And from watching the many tributes via YouTube [...]

YouTube (www.youtube.com) is amazing. And addicting… When one finds the site and proceeds to stay up until 4:00am the next morning watching clips from “Wheel of Fortune”, “The Price is Right”, and other classics, you know one has a problem.

The Professional Choir of Congregation Emanul-El, this afternoon, completed its part of the congregation’s Rosh Hashanah services.

Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, [...]

High Holy Days rehearsals at Congregation Emanu-El have begun, the Palmer Episcopal Church adult choir is back in full-scale session, Bach Choir is about to do its first performance of the year, and the Houston Chamber Choir kicked off its year with an excellent first rehearsal of the season this past evening (though it’s the [...]