Maestro Tamara Dworetz On Valentine's Day, the Las Vegas Philharmonic hosted an amazing female classical guitarist, Sharon Isbin , and an exhilarating female guest conductor, Tamara Dworetz . Both had full command of their roles, as well as the audience. It was delightful to see women in key positions. This is not an anti-male post . I greatly admire many male musicians and conductors. Pianist Andre Watts's version of Rachmanioff's Piano Concerto No. 2 made me, my son, and an entire Meyerson...

Bill and I are so disturbed by the world of today, we're escaping to the early 1980s with Hill Street Blues , an ensemble cop TV series that ran on NBC from 1981 to 1987. It now streams (for a price) on Amazon Prime, Apple, and Fandango. If you're not old enough to recall this series, it won a slew of awards back in its day. The writer/producer was Steven Bochco of later L.A. Law fame. Hill Street Blues was so acclaimed, even the show’s theme music became a hit. This was before commercial...

Ancestry keeps changing my ancestral origins. All along, I've been mostly Scottish, English, and Irish, but there were wee dabs of French and Swedish mixed in. I found those two dabs exciting. But now, they've moved my Swedish dabs. Turns out they're actually Danish and Finnish. And my French part dropped a percentage point. I can't keep up with myself. Sisu!