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I don’t typically devote my weekly blog to reporting on the status of my health. But the latest of circumstances suggests that such an update might be appropriate. Since several friends and family have called to check on me. A recent heart catherization revealed some major blockage in some major arteries, so I was scheduled for coronary bypass surgery a …

Prodigious pianist, teenager Micah McLaurin, is being celebrated in local classical music circles these days, having been awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In recent years Micah has competed successfully in prominent international piano competitions and performed with various symphonies world-wide, including the Cleveland Orchestra, where he played the famously difficult Chopin Concerto No. …