2017 in Review in Music

 

gamelan-yir-webThat’s me on the right with some of my museum colleagues playing the gamelan, which was installed in an exhibition. This was my first time playing the gamelan since I was a member of the nascent Pitt Gamelan Ensemble in the fall of 1996, when I was a grad student at the University of Pittsburgh and the Ensemble was a class taught by a grad student and before it became what it is today. I tried looking for any record of that class or the performance we did in December of 1996 at Heinz Chapel, but it seems to have been erased from history. Continue reading →

2017 Year in Review in Photos

January

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February Continue reading →

2017 Year in Review in Reading

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I always feel like I’ve never read enough.

These are the covers of the 30 books I completed reading in 2017, though some I may have started the year before. Some of the books are important. Some of them are fun. Some are both. Continue reading →

POETS & WRITERS STAND AGAINST TRUMP 01.20.2017 AT 8PM

I plan on taking part.
Help spread the word!

R.M. ENGELHARDT

POETS & WRITERS STAND AGAINST TRUMPPOETS & WRITERS STAND AGAINST TRUMP  : JANUARY 20th, 2017 AT 8PM


On Friday, January 20th Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as The President of the United States of America.

This will be a very sad day indeed. And as poets and writers everywhere we need to speak up and say what needs to be said, and share those words with our nation and the world.

So here’s what we do.

At EXACTLY 8pm on the evening of Friday, January 20th I’m asking all my friends and fellow writers and poets to simultaneously all post a poem or prose piece against the election and presidency of Trump. Post it on Facebook, Twitter, Tumble, WordPress …

EVERYWHERE.

That’s it, that’s all we need to do but we must all be united in this protest.

No matter who you are, what country, what race or what nationality this is…

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