Since I know you don’t have enough to read, I thought I’d throw some links at you.

On the homepage today, I begin a journal called “Down East and Out West.” These are notes on excursions to New Hampshire, Colorado, and elsewhere.

In this post, I discuss a new recording, and new arrangement, of an immortal Haydn work: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. Here, I put up a defense of Bernard Lewis against Edward Said — an unnecessary defense if there ever was one, but still . . .

And here, I talk about Prokofiev’s “big two” ballets, the second of which is a stepsister, so to speak: Cinderella.

Anyway, see what you think, if you find yourself “starved for copy” (a Bill Buckley phrase).