Mary Kunz Goldman was for over 10 years the classical music critic for The Buffalo News, the daily paper of Buffalo, N.Y. She is also the authorized biographer of the great American pianist Leonard Pennario.
Friday, December 14, 2012
French twist
Today I was on Spotify putting together a Christmas playlist. I did not spend much time on it, just tossed together some Christmas songs I found appealing. But it made me think about something.
It made me realize that I am probably, zut alors, a little bit, just a tiny bit, French.
Because all my carols were German and French. And, I mean, my ancestors were German, just look at me. But I realized I had grown up with some of these French carols in addition to the German carols. The Italian carols, the Polish carols, I know nothing of them. It is as if there is this firewall. But part of my family comes from Elsass and so I know my German carols and my French carols.
A New Skillet, A New Website
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There is this cast-iron skillet I cannot bring myself to use.
It just sits on my counter!
And I keep on using my old annoying frying pan, which goes ba...
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