The date of this post says it’s Labor Day, but it’s actually Labor Day Eve. I’m trying to write a post tonight so I can relax tomorrow, but it’s impossible. Why, you ask? Because Charlie is in the next room, listening to a dissection of…
Tag: music
My mother, a little late but never mistaken, suggests that I tell you that my journey through the alphabet this month is as part of the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge, in which participants blog every day except Sunday, taking as their daily topics something that begins…
Long before there was Santana, there was Xavier Cugat. Born in Spain in 1900, raised in Cuba, he was a violin prodigy, winning first chair in an orchestra in Havana when he was only 12. Opera superstar Enrico Caruso brought Cugat to the USA a…