Here is a May song, well sung. Listen to what appear to be period accents. La casa de Bernarda Alba is a May play. Rowdy youth spends the night and part of the day out gathering flowers, and Adela wears a green dress. Maypoles are remnants of ancient tree-worship. What else do we know about … More Clément Janequin

I had a conversation with a dean — a dean! of a unit in another school at the university who said the entire place is a hostile working environment. It is a good time to be studying the rhetoric of the Maréchal because we are Vichy State. Axé.

I was out walking and came upon one of the bailes de cuna Villaverde describes taking place in Havana, but that we also have here. A grandfather in a green silk suit waved me in. Another one grabbed me to dance. I like your step was his first salida.  Caribbean men. He was one of these jinetero … More Baile de cuna