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

Falstaff and The Whale

Heavy Metal

Springtime for Sebastian

Blinkin’ with Blinken at Oscar’s Big Screen

Recalling Wayne Shorter

Bacharach: “Where’d It Go?”

Handel’s Royal Banquet

Super Drought Super Bowl: The Goddess Sings

Kings and Queens, Knights and Ladies — and Grammys

Auto-Interview with the Musical Patriot

Slow Beethoven

Shooting Star:  Judith Leyster Shines

Bach’s Onion

Wind Work

Bach the Contrarian, Gould the Alien

Bach Laughs

Taylor Swift’s Anti-Heroics

Lip Service in Qatar

Thanksgiving Serenade

Face Bach

Inside Tár

Puget Soundings: Bainbridge Sings a Cavatina?

Autumn in New York: On the Finger Lakes Trail

Autumnal Bach

On Bombs and Silence

Passing the Bucks and the Baton

Don’t Worry Darling: Black Comedy Under the Desert Sun

Hymns and Her:  The Queen’s Funeral

Jarman’s Jubilee: Funeral Music for Elizabeth Windsor

Viral Bach

Play It Again:  On the Riches of Repeating Bass Lines

Angels Music

Absolutely Fabulous

Coast to Coast with Wainwright and the Kentish Quartet

The Comic’s Kosky

The Gent From Ghent

Cold Songs for Kit

Songs of Oz

How I Played Hooky from “High School Musical 3”

The Well-Tempered Clavier at 300

Ken Burns in a Cummerbund: The New Errors of Downton Abbey

How Scott Joplin Had Wall Street Down

Slippery Slope

Handel on Fire

Toots at 100

Cruel and Unusual Handel

The Place to Be

Travelers, Sour and Sentimental

Bondage at the Oscars

Beating Time with Handel at the Met