David Yearsley

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue turned sixty-five last month, the same age at which the trumpeter would die thirty-two years after recording the album. The

by Two years ago, the newly formed independent label False Azure Records (FAR) issued its first album, the labor of forgetting . That title is itself a paradox.

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” ( Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University

David Yearsley Since its revival in the 19 th century, Bach's music has been an object of veneration.

Join me in a tankard-raising toast to today's release of my colorful new album, Handel's Organ Banquet Hailed along with his contemporary J.

London Illustrated Magazine, Coronation edition, 1953. The season has changed, if reluctantly.

David Yearsley Louis XIV as Apollo in the Ballet Royal de la Nuit, 1653; Trump dances to “YMCA,” 2024 (YouTube screenshot).

Ives At Election Time Opening of Charles Ives’s song “Majority” (1921) The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born

One afternoon at Versailles in 1669, the Duke of Lauzun hid himself under Montespan’s bed before one of her regularly scheduled afternoon trysts with Louis in her grand apartments.

Twice a year, every spring and fall, Ithaca, New York hosts one of the biggest used book sales in the United States.