I am writing this month’s column with a sad song in my heart. We awoke this morning to an email from SOKY Happenings writer Lee Stott’s daughter that Lee passed away very early this morning… […]
Feb-yoo-ere or feb-roo-ere. Either pronunciation works fine, according to Webster and Google. Other months, like January, are named after Roman gods. So why wouldn’t February be known after the Roman god Februus? Instead, the word […]
Classical music touches a universal nerve. Joy can be found in every form, including Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and in many of the works of our time. You can still love the centuries-old beauty of […]
Alexander Porforyevich was born on Nov.12, 1833 as an illegal son of a 62-year-old Georgian nobleman named Luka Stepanovich Gedevanishvili, and a married, intelligent and pretty 25-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovina Antonova. Fortunately, the Russian […]
By the time you have picked up your September SOKY Happenings, Labor Day may already be something of the past. But Summer’s last official holiday always shows up right off the bat. When I was […]
Once you have heard Mahler’s music, you’ll likely go back for a second helping. My first Mahler experience was the Fourth Symphony. The orchestration was amazing. The melodies unforgettable. A deep thinker wrote this music. […]
Lyracist Oscar Hammerstein II nailed it when he wrote, “June is bustin’ out all over” for the musical “Carousel.” Salubrious June. Health-giving, beneficial, agreeable, beautiful, select, nice June. Often June gets hot, like much of […]
It was a fairly common if not typical January evening on the outskirts of Lincoln, in southeastern Nebraska. The air was cold and brittle, the atmosphere calm and clear. The moonlit snow sparkled on the […]
The last three days of March have a reputation for being stormy. Scottish folklore proposes that those three days were borrowed from April, so that March might extend his intemperate power. The Spanish story about […]
Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holly, singer-songwriter and record producer, widely-known for several hit tunes including “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue,” died at age 23. Ritchie Valens, born Richard Steven Valenzuela, […]
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