The Fredösphere

This phenomenon leaves me with an extremely divided mind.  I would be much happier with it if I knew the music was composed in impeccable taste. And yet ... and yet .... eerrrrraaaaargh!

[Sound of a blogger's head exploding.]

The Vox Early Music Ensemble will be singing up a polyphonic storm In Grosse Point and Ann Arbor this Saturday and Sunday.  Get the details here.

Other bloggers are doing it, so I will too, where "it" is defined as urging my readers to fill out the Blogad survey.  Please consider listing The Fredösphere as one of your favorite blogs.  Consider yourself urged.  Here's your Blogad reward.

It's past time to turn over the February page on my Frank Lloyd Wright calendar, which reminds me to mention this FLW quote I saw there:

What the people of our country need most is beauty of environment.  What we need most is some correlation in these things we, by habit, call Art.  There must be some cooperation of effort between them all because the idea informing all is the same.
-Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939

Well, I dunno, Frank.  Do you suppose maybe in 1939 a slightly higher priority might just have been preventing the fascists from taking over the world?  I'm just asking.

So, we need some way to force the cooperation of all artistic effort.  I guess that means a new government agency.  We already have a Secretary of Amusement; now we must have a National Style Adviser.  The nominee must be her.  Or, if no constitutional issues arise, her.

Okay, Wright's quote was slightly over the top, but every public figure says something dumb once in a while.  My real complaint is with the calendar makers.  Was that really among the best of all the thousands of quotes they gathered in the thousands of man-hours of research that must have gone into making this calendar?  What's that?  You say their research consisted of ten minutes with Google?  Ah -- now I understand.