Louis Roney: The best of all possible happenings
The theater at Trinity Prep School in Winter Park continues to be the setting for a great many exhibitions of what fine natural histrionic talent and wise guidance can accomplish.
That high school students would tackle a work on the level of Bernstein’s “Candide” is remarkable in itself.
Louis Roney: The green-eyed monster
Jealousy is the most unrewarding of human emotions — no one wins anything from it.
“Man wants but little here on earth, but that little is too often what another man has.”
Louis Roney: Take a note …
Washington politicians are profiting mightily by trading stocks that are affected by political actions.
Why do we show famous paintings of naked women to grammar school classes as great art, and at the same time find photos of nude women pornographic?
Louis Roney: American Democracy
The fact that the vote of a highly intelligent person could be invalidated by the bought vote of an illiterate disenchanted people then as it still may do today.
The long and short of it was that democracy’s reliance upon the masses of common people was equivalent to building a large edifice on an unstable foundation.
Review: Chanticleer charms again
Harmony like no other
Chanticleer lived up to its reputation as “America’s premier vocal ensemble.”
Louis Roney: ‘Musica Proibita’
Soon I had learned the song in Italian, by rote, though I did not understand a word.
In the mind of every mature artist resides a memory that was the beginning of his art, an inspiration that grew into an all-encompassing passion.
Louis Roney: Helena (original fiction)
Physically, I was extremely careful to keep my relationship with Helena at arms length.
I met Helena Stratas the day she and my brother Desmond married in Westport.
Louis Roney: Xanadu if you Khan
If our court decides that a citizen can be ordered to buy an item — what disaster comes next?
My b.w. and I went to Tallahassee for two days last week to complete a project started some years ago by our dear friend, the late U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins.
Louis Roney: Tidbits
Using the Fifth amendment to prevent self-incrimination can often, by implication, be as damning as blabbing out the naked truth.
The Fifth gives us all a right that we may rarely, or never, use in our lives — and may be a right that we do not always trust and respect in others, perhaps with reason.
Louis Roney: The extra mile
I came from a family where giving people a little more than they asked for was a moral duty.
In New Orleans, my mother used to buy from a local bakery where a dozen rolls included a 13th roll as “lagniappe.”
Review: Takács Quartet at Rollins
Bach concert review
The Takács Quartet plus a piano played a varied concert of Schubert, Ravel and Shostakovich in Tiedtke Hall at Rollins College.
Louis Roney: War, politics and other recollections
I guess I’m seeking a plain “Tin Lizzie” when the Chevrolet has become a complicated chrome-plated behemoth.
War, politics and other recollections
Minnesota Orchestra plays great music
A great orchestra plays great music to great effect
Louis Roney joins Artists Hall of Fame
Columnist Roney
Observer columnist and former opera star Louis Roney, 91, will enter the Florida Artists Hall of Fame on March 21.
Louis Roney: Slugs, snails and puppy dog tales
People hung the biggest diamondback rattlesnakes they had killed — some were 6- or 7-feet long! — on a fence in West Winter Park.
How many times come and go that leave their unique memories forever engraved in the back of one’s mind?
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