Image: Jef Aerosol MUSIC TO HELP US THROUGH LOCKDOWN This was an evolving Salut! Live post. It attracted gratifying reader response although most of the 33 comments originated at social media mentions of the piece, not here. Since we're all... Read more →
Image: Ron Baker. CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5685417 Not all who contribute to the pages of Salut! Live and Salut! are people I have met. Renata Baraldi, author of a supremely moving coronavirus-related essay from Lombardy, is known to me only... Read more →
At my main site, Salut!, I have been publishing the coronavirus-related thoughts and experiences of friends scattered far and wide. The series has produced some outstanding pieces of writing and I urge those of my readers who come only here... Read more →
Mary McPartlan, in the middle of the photo, flanked by Gerry Driver and Lisa Knapp* As the years pass, we get accustomed to hearing unwelcome news about contemporaries while also, and especially in these sad times, wondering about our own... Read more →
Fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61406470 Only rarely do I reopen discussions on the respective merits of different versions of songs featured in the Cover Story series. This is not such an occasion. It is intended simply to bring to your attention a... Read more →
In a recent post at Salut! Live, I invited readers to nominate the one piece of music they could listen to over and again during lockdown. This is a near cousin of that little exercise and can be added to... Read more →
