David Yearsley

DAVID YEARSLEY is a long-time contributor to CounterPunch and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. His latest book is Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical NotebooksHe can be reached at  dgyearsley@gmail.com

Oscar’s Ring of Fire

Oscar and Caesar, Horner and Handel

Baby Bach Will be Heard

The Harrowing Heroism of Alexander Melnikov

LVIII Forever

Fugitive Music: The Zone of Interest and the Chorus of Souls

The Musical Patriot: Prelude to the Fall of the House of Usher

R.I.P., P. D. Q.

Concourse Contours: Satchmo and the Max Roach Centenary

The Great Wave

Maestro Mania

Schütz’s Angels and the Other Christmas Oratorio

Triggering Handel

Ghosts at the Gate: Coltrane and Co. at Thompson and Bleecker

Bones Apart: the Napoleon Soundtrack Dissected

We are Ourselves: a Thanksgiving Feast with Handel

The Thrill of the Now

Mile-High Musicology

Election Time: a Vote for Bach

Semiquin- and Sesqui-centennials: Bach and the Catskill Golden Spike

Saturday Knights of the Lute

A Last Farewell to Summer

On the Way to Gotham with Dexter Gordon at 100

What to Do With the Old Piano?

The White Key’s Burden

Amerika über alles

A Game of Dangerous Desire: Bach and Tennis

Disastrous Handel

Mr. Music Sells His Soul: Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond”

Donner’s Party: Wagner’s Das Rheingold on the Ring of Fire

Lady Bach

In Search of Barbie’s Voice

Ludwig and the Bomb: An Oppenheimer Symphony

Singing in the Woods: Sondheim Upstate

Trampling Out the Vintage:  Independence Day on Algonquin

Mud, Stone and Roots: Adirondack Hiker’s Hell

Asteroid City Craters

Capital and Interest: Heaven’s Debt Ceiling

Belafonte in the Sun

Eurovisionaries

Coronation Blues: Handel Hearkens

Belafonte Rules the Roost

NATO’s Hymn Ain’t Finished Yet

Sounding Out Renfield

Bach Blows

Falstaff and The Whale

Heavy Metal

Springtime for Sebastian

Blinkin’ with Blinken at Oscar’s Big Screen

Recalling Wayne Shorter