“Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity.”
—Charles Marie Widor from an interview with Albert Schweitzer.
Photo by Ben Cooper. (Taken with instagram)
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“Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity.”
—Charles Marie Widor from an interview with Albert Schweitzer.
Photo by Ben Cooper. (Taken with instagram)
Trout is delicious.
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Tonight’s playlist: the @ChicagoSymphony’s GRAMMY-winning album from 2011.
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Whilst the Mozart might have been the earworm du jour, this rarely-performed work of Claude Debussy is today’s playlist.
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This tune has been an earworm today! I should note that I have this recording as an LP.
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Two-thirds of Republicans say the president can do something about high gas prices; about two-thirds of Democrats say he can’t. But six years ago, with a Republican president in the White House, those numbers were reversed. Researchers…
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Americans Trust Local Government More Than Washington
With partisan gridlock and congressional dysfunction, Americans may have lost faith in their federal government, but an overwhelming majority view state and local government favorably. More than 6 in 10 Americans hold favorable views of state and local government, while just 33 percent view the federal government favorably – down from 64 percent a decade ago.
Read more at The Atlantic Cities. [Image: Pew Research Center]
For what it’s worth…
I believe that we need to move on from lamenting that the indoor Urban Grocery is closing to finding ways to write the next chapter in the life of the Downtown Phoenix Public Market. If there’s one thing that we in downtown Phoenix are good at, it’s rallying around a common cause. Let’s do that again and show our community our determination and our resolve.