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July 2026
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“Love, Look Away”
From the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song.
It seems that only Rodgers could write such beautiful songs.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2026
“In spendour bright”
from Haydn’s The Creation (Die Schöpfung)
a marvelous musical construction of sunrise
recitative, Uriel
In splendour bright is rising now the sun,
And darts his rays; a joyful happy spouse,
A giant proud and glad
To run his measured course.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2026
Ed Begley reading Walt Whitman
Manhattan Island from Bottom to Top; Walking as Exercise
Dostoevsky
An exchange with an LRY friend of mine from high school days.
He emailed me the following article.
The following Word document comprises my response.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 11, 2026