John Zorn just forwarded a text on how Leica saved many Jewish lives and the silence surrounding their heroism. Leica … Continue reading
Author: arbiterrecords
Crossing the Separating Line
Meditations on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunny California in the early 1960s seemed like a peaceful planet. … Continue reading
Adventures in Ethnic Music: Hot Albanian Clarinets
Adventures in Ethnic Music: Hot Albanian Clarinets The rolling hills of Italy’s Marche region lead down to the Adriatic … Continue reading
Irén Marik: from Budapest to the California desert.
After arriving in Marik’s little desert town, she began to speak about her life’s events, being charmingly formal, subtly … Continue reading
Hunting Hungarians: traveling from Liszt to California’s East Sierra desert
A sad blurry overlooked record store on New York’s Eighth Avenue in the 1970s slept next to a mirrored metallic … Continue reading
Recapturing an elusive Johannes Brahms
RECAPTURING LOST SOUNDS Brahms has been hard to get lately. Habitually played as a security blanket for too many years, … Continue reading