April 11, 2026
This is where
The melody comes in
And the raging mind has
No choice but to simmer…
February 16, 2026
Appearing every week on the British popular music phenomenon, Top of the Pops, the all-girl dance troupe, Pan’s People, sensationalized the country…
December 10, 2025
Hummus and salsa, chips and pitas, olives to cranberries, yams to sweetness — oh, what delight from such bounteous platters. Chimes of the hour with music to sound, singers, instrumentalists, all gather ’round…
November 28, 2025
Knowing that the piano had just been tuned that very afternoon, Mikel asked, “Are there any other notes that are ‘broken’?” Young Hans scrunched up his face and then plucked the piano keys from the very lowest bass notes to the delicate high notes. In all, he picked six other notes that were ‘broken’. Mikel told Hanson that the piano tuner had been there that afternoon but that he would call him and arrange for him to return and make sure that Hanson was there to “help” the tuner.
November 17, 2025
When the fog lifts, we will know, we have all been invited to the theatre-in-the-round where we all belong…
June 21, 2025
Bold, thundering C-major chords seize the day with no room for doubt. It’s as if God is in the driving seat full of confidence and all is well. There are no obstructions on the straight and narrow, no one is being martyred, and though there are clouds in the sky, they look more like savory dumplings that might drop manna. The descending bass notes of the first three chords exude hope and a desire to get to the bottom of things. This is the hymn Bryn Myrddin; Welsh singing at its best.
March 13, 2025
Shown on BBC1, The Goodies produced 76 episodes in all, spread over nine seasons, and at the peak of its popularity attracted 15 million viewers.
December 15, 2024
Welcome to the final issue of the MockingOwl Roost in 2024! Music & Light brings together the joys and changing delights of music and light. Enjoy […]
November 2, 2024
Faint music blends with a disembodied ringing of a phone and conversations too low to make out a white noise
October 11, 2024
They make extraordinary music singing in Hebrew and English of the heavenly gates opening…
April 25, 2024
Sure, they were real pros compared to Rex, but all they did was cover songs. Rex, though he could only strum a few chords, was a dreamer. The chords and melody came to him one night sitting alone in his apartment after a couple hits on a bong.
September 26, 2022
A few years ago, a hurricane demolished the storage shed and several other things on my mother’s property. In so doing, the hurricane destroyed an item precious to my mother - and to me - a marbled, dark brown accordion which she found at a thrift store years ago when she was in college.