January Classical Listening: Part Two

In the first of these two articles, I talked about the Grieg, Corelli and Haydn Brilliant Classics collections.  In this article, I will present some notes on the Handel, Mozart, and Thomas Tallis collections.  I also neglected to mention in part one that I had also acquired a box set of Telemann pieces, which I …

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Ireland Makes Blasphemy Illegal

This is about as stupid as it gets. There was an old law on the books in Ireland that defined blasphemy as being illegal, but didn’t define what blasphemy was, so no one could be charged with it. Now, given that the times have changed, society is greatly different than it was when the law …

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