-
Guy Rickards plays and discusses the early symphonic works of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
We discuss the amazing facility of the young Sibelius, his ability to utilize the capacities of a large orchestra. Thanks, Guy! We will be exploring all his later symphonies on future shows.
-
Remembering My Father on His Day
Remembering my father, Jack Wyatt Hudson. He was born January 21, 1920 in San Antonio, TX. His father Oscar Hudson, an engineer from Delaware, and his mother Ruth Morley Hudson, a patent-medicine heiress, from Austin, TX. He had two brothers, one older, Morley, and one younger, Howard. While a part of the Corps at Texas…
-
The First Memory of My Father
June 21, 2022 My first memory of my father is on a golf course. We were living in Prairie Village, Kansas. Our house was modest, and our street was full of young children for me to play with especially a cute girl across the street, named, no kidding, Bambi. (She challenged me to kiss her…
-
Roe Overturned — The Demons Are Released
July 3, 2022 Across the media, we are see pictures and videos of women, and some men, screaming, cursing, crying, announcing the end of democracy. I ask myself, as many do, why? The answer, I believe, is simple — Roe v. Wade had become for them the central symbol of their beliefs about the meaning…
-
The Catholic Teenager Who the Media Lynched at the March for Life
Deal W. Hudson January 21, 2019 The mainstream media, with few exceptions, have become haters. They don’t hesitate to ruin a person’s life if they think it will score points for the Democrats and against President Trump. Case in question: a young man at the March for Life, a student from Covington Catholic High School…
-
Senator Feinstein, Is There Anything You Won’t Say or Do?
Deal W. Hudson September 24, 2018 Dear Sen. Dianne Feinstein, I am writing to you to ask a simple question, Is there anything, morally speaking, you just would not do? I ask because what you are doing to Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee is something I could never do, no matter how much I detested…
-
When Catholics Lost Their Cultural Clout — A Lesson for Today
Deal W. Hudson September 21, 2018 Catholics of my generation probably only dimly remember, if at all, the furor provoked among Catholics by films in the 1950s directed by Luis Buñuel, Los Olivados (1950); Roberto Rossellini, The Miracle (1951); Otto Preminger, The Moon is Blue (1953); Elia Kazan, Baby Doll (1956); Roger Vadim, And God…
-
Follow
Following
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Deal W. Hudson 