Bargemusic
The taxi ride from the hotel in Manhattan to Brooklyn was a short thirty minutes, although passing by "Ground Zero" was a long and sobering reminder of the fateful day. After dinner at Five Front we headed to the Barge on the East River, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. The setting was modest with […]
WaveCube
Technical Information: 1. When installed on top of a cheap sound-card (or chip-set), that supports only FM synthesis capability, WaveCube greatly enhances the sound quality during MIDI synthesis. 2. WaveCube is a standard Win95 multimedia software component, that is compatible with both MMSYSTEM (legacy) and DirectSound (new) architectures (both by Microsoft). 3. WaveCube is capable […]
Roman Rendezvous – Introduction
Short stories are usually better than long stories but this past week contained so much to share that it can not be told in one short story. The highlight was when five-hundred of us entered the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel in a rare way — the buildings had been closed to the public and […]
Roman Rendezvous: Arrival
The American Airlines flight to Rome was long but smooth. Arrival at the Westin Excelsior was exactly thirteen hours from home. After a short nap was a planned phone conversation with Peter Kammerer, Foreign Editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Peter wanted to discuss the future of blogging, which is a […]
Symphony flexes orchestral muscles
Review By Jan StribulaSPECIAL TO THE NEWS TIMES of Danbury, Connecticut RIDGEFIELD — The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra performed their last concert of the season on Saturday night at the Ridgefield High School with a program that involved some heavy lifting onstage. But there was enough extra talent on board to make it look almost easy. […]