This here blog-a-roo, now in its 20th year, has spanned yet another noteworthy tenure. Back in 2014 I noted Andris Nelsons taking up the baton as musical director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The end of his association with the BSO has been announced.
“BSO and Andris Nelsons were not aligned on future vision.”
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/06/bso-ends-maestro-andris-nelsons-contract
Glass has selected the Boston Symphony Orchestra to premiere his new work, this summer at Tanglewood.
Violin Concerto No. 1, by Philip Glass. From 1987, five years after Koyaanisqatsi.
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld saw regime change in Iraq as unfinished business from George Bush Sr.’s administration. They got Bush Jr. to go along with their plan to depose Saddam Hussein.
In 1980, while American embassy staff in Iran were being held as hostages, Trump was hanging around with his coke-snorting pal Roy Cohn. Donald sees Iran as unfinished business. That’s all there is to it, and nothing more.
Sky News isn’t quite right about 1980’s ‘Bomb Iran’. It was actually a parody of the Beach Boys cover of ‘Barbara Ann’.
Here’s the Doo-Wop original, by the Regents.
A city in the sky sounds like a better place to be.
From up there you can see for miles and miles.
I should have watched the HBO documentary, STAX: Soulsville USA before Steve Cropper died, but I’m doing it now. Eddie Floyd’s ‘Knock on Wood’ is my favorite in this collection. Who doesn’t love the theme from Shaft?
