I once interviewed Fay Vincent, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball. The conversation involved matters ecclesiastical—Vincent had considered the priesthood as a young man, before becoming an executive at Columbia …
Movies About Movies: Choice Glimpses Behind the Camera From Knox County Public Library
The Player (1992) New to the collection on Blu-ray, Robert Altman’s peek into the snake pit that is Hollywood holds up nicely. Studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) gets paid …
New Music Picks at the Knox County Public Library
The Jayhawks Paging Mr. Proust (Thirty Tigers, 2016) My wife and I fled Michigan for East Tennessee on April Fools’ Day in 1993. It snowed most of the drive. The …
Charlie Chaplin on Blu-ray at the Knox County Public Library
It may seem incongruous to pursue silent films—films made using cameras which were often unsteady, hand-cranked at low and inconsistent speeds, and which have suffered variously in attics or archives …
Reprise: Some New Recordings of Classical Favorites at Knox Co. Public Library
Phoenix Chorale and Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy, conductor Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil (Chandos, 2015) This is one of the most beautiful pieces of choir music you’ll ever hear. You may …