A Haaswurth Project
Steve sends this along as his “latest project.” As always, his research on these two works is exceptional. The story behind Tuft’s Psalm-Tunes is interesting. Read more about the 1744 Bay Psalm Book at Hasswurth Books.
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I’m Dreaming…
of a White Christmas… As far as I’m concerned, white Christmases can stay in Vermont, but I want you to have that tune in your head as I tell the story of little Israel Baline, and the man he came to be. Israel was born in Temun, Russia in 1888. His family was Jewish and …
What Good is Television? | Horizon March 1960
“What I was watching, I told myself, was an entirely new form: the visual essay. … Television had, for me, acquired an identity.”