A 5th String Subbing Cicada

I am looking forward to the moment when cicada season passes so I can hear myself think again. The tree outside my front terrace thrums loudly like a giant, shaking maraca with these screeching bugs … Read more…

Old Postcards from Madrid

One thing I could not get right in Madrid last year was timing.  The city shuts down between 2 PM to 5 PM for siesta.  The ensuing photographs document the places I attempted to visit … Read more…

Egberto Gismonti’s Concert at Symphony Space

Egberto Gismonti returned to New York on September 12, 2014 after a 10-year hiatus to perform to an enthusiastic audience at the Peter Norton Theatre at Symphony Space. The concert was presented by the Americas Society, sponsored … Read more…

A Nobel Prize Winning Guitarist

On the day the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced in 2008, Dr. Martin Chalfie slept through the official phone call from the Nobel Prize Committee.  He woke at ten after six and wondered to … Read more…

My First Guitar book cover

Why I Wrote My First Guitar

I could give you many geeked-up reasons with spectacles shoved halfway down my nose for what motivated me to write this book.  Somewhere on the mental back burner, I did ponder these interviews in the … Read more…